The Home Machinist!

Thanks for your suggestions, Harold. I forgot to mention in my original post that any effort to unscrew the collet closer by hand was impossible. It was frozen up solid and it was going to take some substantial force to get the closer to unscrew from the collet, if in fact it was a standard two-piec...

I have a watchmaker's lathe that was given to me and the headstock has a tapered spindle for mounting the chuck with a friction fit. This is my first experience with these and all the research I've found on the web has pictures of these lathes with collets, and the chucks have a threaded shaft that ...

My old log shows the Steamed Hams were on a sked every Wednesday night at 1930 on 3934kz. Haven't heard any activity in quite a few years, and it was a long stretch for the west coast guys to make it to the east coast on 75m. It happened, but it was work. Rowland, N7SP I have been an amateur radio (...

I'm hoping someone can help me find a copy of the prints for this pump. The drawings for the pump are #45, dated 3-20-66 as designed by Seymour Johnson. The first name of the draftsman was Martin, I don't recall his last name, but my understanding is that Seymour was the driving force behind the pum...

If upon the close of the investigation, the police conclude that their current theory is correct, his last and long remembered contribution to society will be the vile murder of his companion and the subsequent cowardly suicide to avoid facing the penalty for his act. If the police theory as stated ...

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Which one?

Pennsy fan wrote:If you have watched the TV show Jericho the second season started with
my PRR K5 being run into a tank.

Where'd you do the shoot?

RW

Bill Shields wrote:Repeat X times for number of drivers....

What would a machined wheel cost using this process?

Rowland

Bill, You might want to check with Camping World or any other large RV supply house. The bigger stores carry a pretty decent selection of quick connect fittings, valves, and lines designed for the growing propane appliance market. The big thing is getting to be the connection of smaller items like l...

why would you need an education in CNC to do live steam work? fred v You don't. Old School, manual, machine tool operation is just fine. I don't have any CNC experience yet, and I am having a great time enjoying my live steam hobby with a small mill drill and an old 13" South Bend. For the mom...

And, the book will hopefully walk me through it and teach me what I need to know. You might want to check into the local high schools and colleges. Some high schools and many of the colleges offer day or evening courses in machine tool operation and CNC instruction. They generally have fairly new e...

Anyone else remember Vibrasonic? They gave an exagerated echo to the sound, just like you were in a stadium. Except when you hit a big bump, then the just went boing! Did you ever tear one apart? Remember the return springs they used to mount on the screen door of your house? The Vibrasonic had som...