Recent content by magic.42

Thanks Chuck, Your lead took me on a short trip, right to the business phone number of the company. I called and spoke with Dick, the man that engineered both the turrets. He walked me though the ball bearing indexing system in his designs,as well as the locking mechanism on the QC tool post...

I was looking for plans for a turret and found two that looked interesting,on ebay. One was a standard 4-way turret with indexing (ebay item# 230436401586 ) and the second one was a Quick Change turret(ebay item 230466829606 ), both by the same person. I asked the seller to re-list last week and...

I would like to hear some opinions about which is better:a shoulder bolt or a bolt with a sleeve. If you would present us with your offering in a pros and cons style , it will be a great help to my learning curve ???(Total Newbee) I've seen both and I don't know the reasoning. Thanks and Take...

Hi, Xlmyford and other members. I thought you could use this information. When you find a web site on the net, like the link Xlmyford gave us, that is in differrent language. First copy the web link or address .Second, open "Google Search Engine" ( www.google.com ) and paste it in the search...

What I want to do is make holder that I can mount my Dremel 300 to. I can't figure out if there is a tap out there for this or another method I've not discovered for threading this. The threading I'm referring to is at the tip of the housing, near the chuck. When the finger stop tip of the...

Wow! Thanks for the assistance. it looks like the bushings WIN 4 out of 4! Since I'm very new to machining, I'm sure I'll be posting more newbie questions on a regularly bases. Thanks and Take Care ~ Rich

I just ,a few days ago, ordered the book "The Model Injector" by Ted Crawford for $13.00(US) + $5.50 shipping & handing, I was told it's a good book on injectors. I ordered it new from Plough Book Sales in Australia. It will be in stock in two weeks and mailed out. The address for the site is [...

I was drawing up an idea for a radius cutter and a friend instructed me not to use a ball bearing. He described using a stripper bolt (should bolt) with a bushing cut from oillite. I believe I understand what both items are and how they would interact, but would like to hear some other methods...

Oh, I forgot to thank Stan. I will work on one or two in my atlas lathe. I'm presently disassembling it to true-up and lubricate it. I do have the metric gear set, but till I'm comfortable with the tear down and set-up, I'm going to leave it with the S.A.E. gear set. That will work fine for the...

Thank you all -so much - for such good solutions to my problem. I didn't even know that straight to mt1 was out there for sell. I've ordered a straight to mt3-mt2-mt1 combination set, thanks for the idea and the links Blogwitch. Till the set arrives, I'm going to try using Rollands method of a...

OK , here is the problem I think I have. I have ordered a rotary table that accepts a Morse Taper #1. I have a couple of mt#1 blank end arbors, as well as the matching tap and die for my Unimat DB200 accessories( that being a 3 & 4 jaw chuck-12mX1). What I'm not seeing is how to put the mt#1...