Recent content by cl350rr

Thank you for sharing your modifications. I bought a HF 7X10 a few years back and find it to be a fairly useful machine. If you don't mind I have a few suggestions based on your pictures above. The first thing I did was to change out the screws holding on the cross slide and compound rest...

Good looking and running engine

Really nice build, congratulations

Thanks for adding the video, great mechanical sound to it

Really a nice looking machine, do you have a video of it operating?

You may want to mention, where you are, there may be members in your area who can help you get started. I have never purchased a new lathe, always used. It may not be the right path for you but my first lathe was a small AAA brand junker off of Craigslist. I spent a good bit of time working...

my father had a 4' piece of railroad iron under his workbench, it was on rollers right under the bench top and you could pull out as much as you needed to pound on and roll it back out of the way when not used. I have a small railroad iron anvil I bought years ago, it is shaped and fairly...

Current may be more important than voltage, try a small wall wart power supply or some resistance to control the lower the current

The discs are just the thing for building a boundary layer turbine, thank Tesla

Wow, that is a good looking boiler, nice work

Really a work of art inside, lots of gears and rotating parts, all brass and shiny inside, has several selectable gear ratio for different RPM ranges. Includes original case which shows some wear but keeps the Tack protected. $75 + shipping from 23452

That is really a nice looking engine

Truely an inspirational pice of work, well deserved Bill. Randel

don't know about value as in money but I had access to a rockwell for a couple of years and I would like to get my hands on another. the vairable speed function is really nice. Randel

If I had the means, I would act on this one. some really cool early machining history here ready to go to the scrapper. Please save them if you can... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320676321211&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Randel