The Home Machinist!

Just pay you're hill-billy neighbor a bounty for every tail. You can buy him shot for a .22 rifle. The shot is the size of fileings.

I have bought a read out from them for my lathe. The guy at the DRO store was very helpful. I am pleased with the readout it arrived here to Canada in less than a week. It was less than $600.00 Canadian scales included. The instructions are confusing because the are broken English and they cover a l...

I use a sharpie marker on the knee of my manual mill at work to mark my 0 and than count my turns this would be a lot easier just to slide the pointer to 0 and read the turns. I can use it on any mill I am working on. Most of the mills at work only have a X Y dro. Thanks for the tip

bevel gear planing machines, thread mills, duplicators, pantomills I read he wanted to open a machine shop not a museum. Their will always be a need for machinists cnc and manual. Just because some egg head behind a computer simulates a cut on his screen That dose not mean it is going to work. You w...

yes I meant female sorry

When working to a print with tolerances on it I always like to cut the female first so I can measure it with dowel pins and gauge blocks. I guess fit is more important than size to you unless you want to interchange you're parts you make.

I think it is a great project. The tools you make and use yourself build confidence and pride in your work. I have often seen chucks drilled and counterbored for clearance for two 3/8 16 socket head cap screws. I do not think that it would mater if you taped the hole thru in this case because if the...

What is the chance that your tool could be above center the closer you get to the center the less clearance you would have? Is there clearance ground on the tool? When your tool rubs the work that is when you will get work hardening and increased cutting pressure. A brazed on carbide cutter ground p...

123 blocks, paralelles, boring head are some more

I think I will head to Home Depot and see what they have. I will keep my eye open for a Lista type. Thanks for all the poasts and Ideas.

I am looking for some ideas to organize my tap collection. I don't want to fork out 1000s on a LISTA cabinet. I thought that some of you might have come up withe a simple or inventive way to organize them. Currently mine occupy two much space in my roller cabinet.

Nice project
What did you use for reflector material?