The Home Machinist!

I used to go to a flea market in Englishtown, NJ. There was a guy there hawking the aluminum “solder” rods and doing demos with a plumbers acetylene torch. HE COULD DO ANYTHING with that combo. I saw him attaching soda cans to make sculptures and repair broken, threaded carburetor bases with steel s...

If you’re looking for wheel adapters I’ve bought 3 of these and think they’re great.

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Mine is a different brand than yours. On mine the unpainted side bosses were accurate to the collet bore and equal. I have my vise mounted and trammed so I touch off the fixed jaw, move half the distance and then place the 90 deg. Attachment In the vise and then with the assistance of the knee and q...

YES and YES. Yes…Call a rigger, if you can afford it. Yes…You can use an engine hoist with appropriate lifting straps, chains and eye bolts to remove the mill head, the turret and then horse around the base/table with tubing and a Johnny Bar. My favorite rollers are old motorcycle fork tubes. Extend...

I don’t have a 3in1 but I just found an old CD with some pics I saved from a now defunct forum. A guy who went by Postino posted these C96 Broomhandle Mauser re-barrel pics 7 or 8 years back and I saved them before the forum got hacked and vanished. The link is to my Postimage page where I uploaded ...

My 1st Toolroom job (‘74) was in a technical ceramic company. We took twist drills, cut slots and silver soldered carbide pieces to them and then ground them either in fixtures or by hand. Carbide was precious and when a tool could no longer support a diameter or form, the insert was removed and put...

Just listed today 3/22.

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I have an 81 piece B-grade set I bought from CDCO about 8 years ago. I keep a dryer button from my last statins bottle in the case to help protect them. The set has served me well doing sine bar and height gage stuff in my home shop. There are a few blocks in the set that don’t wring as well as the ...

Welcome ao1,
That 9” SB looks a LOT like a lathe I gave away 23 years ago in NJ when I moved to TX.
Who knows ? Hope you get some good use with it.

The guy I’m helping out on occasion uses a blue water soluble concentrate from Rust-Lik. It mixes 10/1 with water and works great with little smoke. *BUT* The brand new thick rubber way covers he bought last year for the mill have pretty much fallen apart. They cracked and crumbled. Very disappointi...

My original Machinist box was a 1974 Craftsman with the velvetine plastic drawer liners that dry out and crack after a couple decades. I just bought a nice used duplicate off CL and the liners were toast. I found some nice black velvet card stock at Hobby Lobby that I cut to size and so far I’m pret...

If you take Statins like me , just save those little cylindrical dryer packs and put one in each drawer.