The Home Machinist!

http://www.nvbackflow.com/engines/index/html
I've seen others, that's the only one I can find right now...

I mostly miss the "last 24 (or 48)hr." feature-the posts since last visit are OK, but if I inadvertenly sign out, then there are 0 posts, & I have to plow thru every forum. The "e-mail it to yourself" deal decribed by Harold is just too much hassle in my book-other than that,...

OK, I finally saw that at the top of the page...that will work for my purposes. still can't find the one you mentioned at the bottom, Harold, but thanks for the reply. I can get by, maybe even better, 'cause it's sometimes 25 hr. before I get back to it...
Thanks-Ron in CO...

I always used the digest format to see messages posted on all forums in the last 24 hr. Where is that now? I hope it's not gone...

Yup, I've seen those little rounded off hunks-we used to call pistons like that "ant farms"...I have a collection of interesting pistons I've kept over the years. Ant farms, valves imbedded in the piston, pistons melted down to the top ring, etc...no big ones like you decribe, though-pity....

Well, Jesse, if it was a farm tractor engine, I'd blame the shattered top rings on an overdose of ether...farmers really like that stuff...I've seen a lot of top rings broken into little chunks in John Deere & IH engines...or else putting a load on the engine w/o warmup. Neither of those scenari...

Jesse, I would love to hear that sound too-big ol' Diesels are just cool, that's all. I know how tough an idle hunt can be to tune out. I once took care of a 16V71 Detroit on a genset that had an idle roll you couldn't get rid of-good thing was that it didn't have to idle much-mostly warmup, or occa...

Whenever the speed of a Diesel overrides the set idle speed, (deceleration), the governor, which is actually a computer on the new engines, shuts the fuel completely off, until the speed drops to the idle speed, then it picks up & gives it enough fuel to maintain idle. The only way a diesel CAN ...

srrl5, you must have the bad luck to get behind a bad Diesel every day-it's not Diesel fumes that are choking you. A Diesel engine under deceleration conditions is injecting NO fuel into the cylinders. The smoke you see & smell is prob. lube oil being drawn past worn rings or valve guides, or ma...

The Bridgeport is the "standard" for milling machines. In fact, most if not all of the Taiwan & Chicom machines are a deadass clone of the BP. Matter of fact, my mill is a genuine BP head on a Taiwan body...I didn't catch that until I got it home, it was in kind of a dark old barn, &am...

Can anyone tell me or post a pic of a good way to mount one of the quill DRO units on a Bridgeport J-head? I recently bought one off Fleabay, needing to use up my Paypal credit for the Blake co-ax fiasco-but that's another story...the "mounting bracket" that came with this thing doesn't re...