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You can buy them off of ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Turning-Tools-Taper-Metal-Attachment-3MT-Shank-For-Off-setting-Lathes-Tailstock/263381674868?hash=item3d52c56b74:g:vYoAAOSwc7RaLiTw

Glad you had a nice vacation, but now you have my curiosity up. What is required by law that you have to carry on a trip? Also you have to supply your own breathalyzers? I don't indulge personally, but talk about adding insult to injury, making you supply something they are going to bust you...

IT's all sold.

Link to pics in ad. Atlas- craftsman 12-36 lathe , on original cast iron and wood stand. Has always been mounted to this stand so the bed is not twisted or warped!!! Quick change gearbox, quick change toolpost with 5 adaptors. Right and left tangential tool holders,8 crobalt bits (should last a...

Location is there on the side Houston Texas.

Atlas- craftsman 12-36 lathe , on ORIGINAL cast iron and wood stand. Quick change gearbox, quick change toolpost with 5 adaptors. Right and left tangential tool holders, boring bar holder 4 way toolpost (german) 6" 3 jaw 8" 4 jaw. 8" faceplate with adjustable dog up to 2 1/2". Atlas MFC...

Thanks for all of the comments. To try and touch on a few spots, Ed T I'm thinking 8 to 10" flywheels, I don't want it to small, but I would like to be able to load it myself to take to shows. I've had hit and miss engines all of my life, sold the last one a couple years back, when I hurt my...

Hello all, Just kinda testing the waters here. I am currently doing research on producing a high end casting kit of a Foos special electric lighting engine. I have been around hit and miss engines all of my life and this engine is by far the smoothest running of all. With a disc crank and...

IE not working but firefox is. Appears there is a time problem on the server as I'm posting this at 2:11 P.M. CST.

I'm in the automotive business and the most disturbing MSDS was for airbags. It seems the solid rocket fuel inside, that is made by Morton-Thiekol ,<-SP? , (yes the same people that got blamed for blowing up the space shuttle) has been "known to cause mutations in animals". Somehow I never got a...

Found this on Ebay, Above my current skill level...

Well I decided to do a little cooking of my own. Much to my wife's dismay I'm boiling my connecting rod in her coffee pot full of alum.:eek: Broke a #50 drill bit in it.:mad: So it's off to the base, laying it out to mill the mains and fit the main caps.

Brian, your ability to take an idea and put it on paper is nothing short of amazing. I always watch your builds and have learned a LOT. Thanks for sharing your expertise with us.

Try ebay and search for jensen. Take an old boiler off of a junk one for $25-50 . Just remember scalding hot water under pressure fits in with hand grenades and small explosives!!!:)

I was shopping craigslist and found this the other day while looking for a lathe or mill. http://houston.craigslist.org/tld/3378898171.html The thought of it has opened up many horizons for me and my 3n1 that has been holding me back. While the 3n1 has a large swing it is choked by the table...