Recent content by D.C.Clark

I strongly recommend Sherline. Join the Sherline forum at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sherline/ Dan Pines, a Sherline distributor in Israel, is a regular participant. Drop him a line, drop my name. I am occasionally tempted to get a Sieg machine. All I have to do to talk myself out of...

I spent my career in the machine shop at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It's one of NASA's largest, about 8000 square feet. The main floor is end grain hardwood blocks on a concrete slab. The blocks are around 6 to 8 inches square and 4 inches thick. It's a nice...

HSM Nov/Dec 2005. The only other one I've seen was at Cabin Fever, last year I think. It's a fine project. Two excellent ideas it incorporates: Use in-line skate bearings, very high quality, reasonable price compared to comps. Use a large bronze bushing for the power cylinder -- perfect...

It's in the Nov/Dec 2005 Home Shop Machinist. I have it in front of me. Got the engine in front of me too. Nice design, fun to build. David Clark in Southern Maryland, USA

I'm in Calvert County, Maryland, 20736 Have a Sherline CNC lathe and mill. Visitors welcome, drop me a line. [email protected]

Buy it and join the Sherline group at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sherline/ There you will get any help you may need to get it up and running. David Clark in Southern Maryland, USA

Instead of enclosures, I've made a variety of chip screens over the years. Easily made in a few minutes, any size and shape needed -- piece of 1/10 inch plexi, cut a slot in a scrap of wood with the table saw. Can be placed anywhere needed, and stored compactly when not. Leaves the equipment...

With this simple mounting scheme, I can quickly and easily attach either a 2000 or a 4000 column in any of 3 positions at any of 3 locations. With this and the extended Y and Z axes I can reach any part of the work envelope with the rotary table or angle plate in any position. The rear bar is 4...

Thanks. There's much more to the base than is visible in the above photo. I've made my Sherline mill a hybrid 2000/4000 machine that can be quickly configured in a number of different ways. I don't believe I've posted anything about it on this forum -- will do so in a new thread. Have to find...

I use a piece of plate glass, 8 x 8 x 1/4 inch thick, clamped to the mill tooling plate, and a plunger type indicator attached to a piece of bar held in a collet. The larger the radius you indicate, the more sensitive the measurement will be. David Clark in Southern Maryland, USA

Good point, thanks Jason. DC

Great link, Gail. Just what I was looking for. Thanks very much. DC

I'm after hex heads, not socket heads. See: http://www.microfasteners.com/catalog/products/MSCHBS.cfm Sorry for the misunderstanding. May have a fairly easy workaround, though. I see McMaster sells #5-40 threaded rod and nuts in both brass and plain steel. Could solder or braze a nut onto the...

I'd like black oxide better than stainless, maybe better than brass, for the color as you say. So where can I find #5-40 hex heads in any material besides stainless? DC

McMaster is the first place I look for practically everything. But I've not been able to find hex head screws there smaller than #10-24. Got a part number for 5-40? Microfasteners does have #5-40 x 1/2 in Stainless. Thanks Tony, that's a start. Still looking for brass, though. They and others...