Recent content by Jared

I'm here!

Wow, it looks great! If you're going to do some lifting to show off the clutch, then you're gonna need a brake to show off as well.

Way-ull, when you put it that way... I dunno, I ain't never tried it. That precision thing kinda throws a wrench in the gears.

Rats! I was looking at mine. They're in pretty good shape but they didn't look like they would be too hard to make. Only thing is a chunk of brass or bronze wouldn't be cheap!

http://www.clausing-industrial.com/partsService.asp Go down to the bottom of the page and there's an email address. They don't have everything but it's worth a shot. If you want bearings take a look here http://www.wentztech.com/metalworking/equipment/clausing-8520-mill/. The owner of that...

I was able to get a spindle for my 8530 back in December. I sent them an email and IIRC I got a reply in a couple days. Certainly not a month.

Brian, now that you've got the design nailed down I come along with this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1912-Clyde-Iron-Works-Hoisting-Engines-Derricks-on-CD-/300676404863?pt=BI_Books_Manuals&hash=item4601b5d67f

All right! Good to see this picking up again. I usually do things steady by jerks myself. Get burned out, do something else, half a year or two or five go by and I pick it up again. Looking forward to more.

I moved up from an X2 to an 8530 a couple months ago and I love it. It had a bent spindle and I was able to get a new one from Clausing, but it wasn't cheap. I'm interested in how your VFD works out. Mine's 110V but if it can be done cheap enough I might consider converting so I can have...

The other way you can do it is to have the pinion driving one drum and the other drum driving off the first one. This causes them to turn opposite directions so then you wind the line on the top of the back drum and the bottom of the front. Another variable that you can play with is the gearing...

Hi Brian, Looking forward to seeing this come together. The reason for a brake is if you are using it as a hoist you want to be able to hold or lower the load without it crashing down or dragging something up a hill you don't want to give up your hard-fought ground and have it slide back down...

Thanks, guys! After I bought mine I helped another guy get a brand-new 15-year-old 9x42 Bridgeport knockoff for 300 bucks! Only reason I didn't jump on it myself was I didn't want that big of a machine. I'm sure at some point in the future I'll be kicking myself. I found your site a few...

The 8530 followed me home the other day! Only thing is it has a bent spindle but I was able to order a new one from Clausing. There's another part that supports the spindle pulley bearings that was bent that I was able to duplicate. I should get the new spindle Wednesday and with a new bearing I...

Thanks, fellas! As luck would have it today I ran across a Clausing 8530 that I may be able to pick up cheap but I don't know yet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed! If it falls through I'll talk to myself a lot more about buying an 0695. But I go back and forth because I want to build a...

Hi guys, I'm ready to move up from my little Cummins Tool X2 and so I'm trying to round up a small knee mill like a Rockwell 21-100 or 21-122, Clausing 85xx, Millrite, Index 40H, Jet 8x36, Grizzy 8x30 or something along those lines. Maybe a 9x32 Bridgeport if the price and logistics are right...