The Home Machinist!

There's quite a few tracks in Ohio, northeast Ohio live steamers, Mill Creek Central, Pittsburgh Akron and Western Railroad, Lakeshore live steamers, a group up near Sandusky Ohio I can't remember their name right off hand and probably a few of them I have forgotten Cincinnati Cinder sniffers then y...

Just to let you know I had a few projects pop in the way of this I should be back to this very shortly

Me and a friend redesigned the swing link for more movement how tight is the Curve where you trying to go around foot radius is that is the radius of the curve may be too tight

As for the rim around the table it's a half moon between the outer T slots and tableside linking tank in the base of the column the coolant tank only seen it on Bridgeport Tracer Mills and special order Bridgeport's with coolant

As soon as I can figure out how to post a picture I will show one of my three vices and they're dead on except they have Bridgeport cast on it, what he is talking about is a raised lip on the base the coolant will flow towards the bolt openings and then onto the table all bridgeport's vices have tha...

Bill Shields is correct that is a Bridgeport I have three of them,

Well Glenn ,the Bellevue and Cascade Railroad was a 3 foot Narrow Gauge in Iowa with 36 miles of track! The ox was there last working locomotive, by the way the locomotive started life at SJ Groves Construction Company in New York state with five other siblings building a dam, then to the B&C RR...

this is been almost 30 years in the making

It's really starting to look good!! always thought about building one in 15 inch gauge

No he is not hand-feeding he using the power feed only I have personally helped him do hundreds of them I was there as a witness I cringed when he did it he said it would be fine

That's not necessarily true about the innards being for 3/8 holes only my friend wood regularly drills with a carbide tipped drill 3/4" cast iron buns 7/8 stainless steel bongs by the thousands and no pilot hole and still going strong

The Little Mill that you found is a similar size to a clausing mill a friend of mine had one and loved it his was the e n c o version, I think for space the round column from Harbor Freight a good choice for you, but it is possible to find single phase Bridgeport mills, I own four of them all single...