Recent content by augoldminer

I am a disabled hard rock gold miner that has been building up a small machine shop for hobby work instead of watching soaps all day. So far i have a old mod 700 Wards/logan lathe, a old Atlas 7 inch shaper, and a small mill. One project i have always wanted to try is to build a small diesel...

About 2 week ago someone ask me if i could use a old atlas 7 inch shaper. I told them yes before anyone else could got it. My first project had a dovetail and it was just what i needed. many machinist think shapers are obsolete. But the three things about shapers are cheap tooling and being...