Recent content by Holescreek

Recess the screw into a dovetail slot and add a brass gibb and you have one of these: http://lepton.com/metal/ball_turner.html

Noitoen, How did it go with the company I contacted for you? Did you call them and work out the international shipping? -Mike

Noitoen, Private mail sent.

I found that a little 20 gauge sheet metal, plasma cutter, brake, and a spot welder make tool storage pretty simple. :big:

:idea: Your grammer gave your identity away! Having an "extra" M-head stored in the other shop doesn't make me an expert on anything but how to take one off. Rof}

I'm sure you have already been to Tony's site and looked around but if not, http://www.lathes.co.uk/bridgeport/ HEre's a photo of an adapter I made to mount a J-head onto the M-head round ram. The OD of the back of a J-head is 7.5" and requires a radial (circular) T-slot for the t-bolts that is...

The newer dovetailed ram bridgeports have a pad on the back of the ram which is the proper size for mounting an M-head flange. Does your V ram have this feature? If it does, and it matches what you have in the front, you're in! Unfortunately I cannot directly answer your question because I have...

A slightly different version of that "The little sparrow" was written on a very big sign over the receiving desk at the movement center, USMC base Camp Pendleton when I went through there in 1977. Nothing course or dirty, but it really drove the point home.

I waited a bit to see if my friend would post about trying the alum but I guess not. He went to the local grocery store and picked up a box of alum in the spice aisle, mixed it it water to saturation and immersed the aluminum part with the broken off 6-32 tap in it. Next day, nothing had...

Very enjoyable! I finally have something to look forward to at work tonight. I''l have my coworkers check it out. Thanks! -Mike

Maybe this site will help" http://www.engineersedge.com/surface_finish.htm In metalwork the best we can do is to continue to even out the hills and valleys. I think Rake posted a photo in another thread of a surface roughness gage of the visual kind for reference. Metal polishing begins where...

Thanks for the tips guys! I just sent a link to a friend of mine with a freshly broken 6-32 tap in a chunk of aluminum. I have never tried the chemical route before. Last time I took a tap out of alminum I did it with an arc welder. I wrapped tape around the sides of the rod and stuck it down...

Very cool! I am always looking for ways to maintain and shorten setup times. -Mike

Thanks for clearing that one up for me. I thought he was talking about his sister! Rof}