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In The Home Shop Machinist magazine years ago there was an article from a Guy Who regularly parted off 11" and 18" bronze. A picture showed a piece of 11" being cut. He had a thin piece of metal wedged under the cut off tool. Not to burst anyone's bubble, including Mine.;)

Diversions are interesting in their own right.

These are Electric Company figures taken off My bill.;)

Switched the whole house over to Leds. Instant on which is great. Power usage is 18% less. Spent $140, saving $15 a month appx. 1 year in to this. Got a bargain on the bulbs $3.00 each.

I don't know if the page is copy righted and don't want to make problems. If allowed I will post them.

I would like to put this thread to rest and share the solution if it happens to anyone else. The lathe still turned big at the headstock end. I finally was able to find a roundtoit and tore it down. Loosened all the bolts holding the headstock down and loosened the alignment block. Up to this...

If You show Your hung over employees a nasty picture You are not being an a.......... That might be the most sensible thing They have ever seen. Got to get to Them any way possible.

I can order and ship to You if needed.

I bought a similar design. I can not get it to throttle down. The small plastic hose goes all the way through the flex tube and can be adjusted by shortening or lengthening it. Nothing I tried had any effect. I made a small adapter bushing to go in the end of the brass nozzle to duplicate the...

Wet hay will combust, barn fires were more common back then. A guy I worked with had put up loose hay in the barn. Went up a while later and it had begun to smolder. He grabbed a fork and started throwing it out on the ground and it was catching fire as fast as He could throw it out.

I have a 16'x18' shop, pretty small. I lost something in it. I figured I would duplicate My searches so I started a list of every place I searched. Thought I would knock it out in a couple of days. Did not label the list so now I don't know what I was searching for.o_O

My preferred way also, I made the best of both worlds and got an insert parting tool. the insert tool works better and upside down makes it even better than that.

Bridgeport says 3/8" capacity when drilling.

I think I have missed Him starting His lathe up as I did not see My lights getting dim. :)

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