The Home Machinist!

After dead batteries and one that require constant zero (it comes to life with 0.439) I switched to vernier type. I made a living in electronic but I am not a fan of commercial electronic.

I was going to suggest, forget all that precision indexing. Eyeball the surface to machine parallel to the end mill cutting edge. I was reluctant to post but then Liveboard proved that there is no need for a lot of precision. An eyeballed milling job is certainly more accurate than filing. How many ...

Loctite is anaerobic so I suspect the scarcity of oxygen is a factor in polymerizing. A manufacture has to state the life of a chemical conservatively. Research was made on prescription drugs and found that most are chemically stable much longer than the expiration date. So is food, taken with commo...

At step #5 I already thought of the dog problem. I have one of them.

I will try to remember
Cerro metal for bending tubes
Sugar for sticky buns
There is not much sugar left around here these days. Lynda went on her usual Christmas baking frenzy.

Merry Christmas to all.

Love those chucks hanging on the wall. That would be my choice if I had any free wall space.

I screw an eye into the chuck

Where does your chuck has a threaded hole?

I do not see any problem, other than the turning direction, can't be reversed. The flange looks like it can come out.

I'll bet those are pretty high-grade steel.

Maybe, but the 1, 2 HP pump motor shaft I cut from the rotor cut like 10L14

I had good finds on E-bay Amazon and now McMaster sells shorter pieces than use to do and are competitive.

The junk cutoff blades were Grizzly import tooling. I bought my lathe and mill from Grizzly and had no complains about quality or customer service. On the other hand, cutting tools are garbage. Not just Grizzly, all the importers get the same cheesium alloy. I learned to stay away from Chinese cutt...

My best cut off blade is one made with high grade HSS German steel.

Where did you buy it?