Recent content by Crawdad

That's a Palmgren. I rebuilt, painted and sold one last year for $250 on Kijiji. It sold in a couple of hours. Bill

Hi Guys. Bill here in Ottawa, I'm a member of the Home Shop Machinists group here. There's maybe a dozen members in the group, we meet once a month for dinner and talk. I haven't built any model engines, but am interested and may start on one in the near future. I have a small garage shop, with...

Hi Norm, After a bit of hunting, I found a partial backup of Chris Heapy's site on the Wayback Machine (an internet archive, for those who don't know). Seems like the site went away in 2005. Anyway, there's a substantial version of it at...

Nope, there's just a hyperlink, no pictures visible. From the error message, I'm guessing that there's something to do with user privilege that is inhibiting some of us from seeing the pictures. Bill

Cogsy - when I click on either of the links in messages #8 or #10 in this thread, I get "Home Model Engine Machinist" page with the message "You do not have permission to view media within this album.". I am logged in - evidenced by my being able to respond to messages such as this one. My...

I'm getting error messages when I try to access either album, Dean. It appears that I don't have permission to access those albums. Is this a setting that the owner would be able to change? Bill

I'm more in the "get it level" camp. Once I get a machine together to the point of being able to make chips, it's really hard for me to tear it back down again to do things right. One of the more important things you can do to get a lathe to perform well is getting the bed straight and level...

I'd start out working on the bed. Clean it up, go over it carefully looking for damage. Smooth down any dings or dents with appropriate file/scraper/stone, clean again and paint anything you want painted. Figure out where you're going to mount the lathe and bolt down the bed, making sure it's...

Those parts are an Atlas manufactured 10F. Can't tell the bed length, but it's a 10F for sure. If it was sold by Sears, it'll have a Craftsman nameplate and model number, but the parts are unmistakable. It has a babbitt bearing headstock, and change gears rather than a quick change.