Recent content by oldguy

Nice job, but I have a question. What brand of drill is that motor assembly from? The few dead drills I've taken apart have used the case as the motor housing and weren't nearly as clean and neat as the one you've used. I've played with using a windshield wiper motor or a window winder motor...

Instead of making the can/container, why not use one of the metal water bottles that seem to be popular now? They are one piece, so there would be no problems with leaks. And steal the plans for the pump from an existing oil can, but use better materials with closer tolerances. This could be a...

Thought I'd pull this thread up to the top. Did you get the DRO installed? If so, how is it working? There are probably a lot of us "thrifty types" out here wondering. Glenn

Kludge - Oh boy, my first post on this forum - and I can contribute something. This semester, I'm an "assistant" at the local junior college machining class (all of the advanced classes were canceled) and in cleaning up the back room we found about a dozen bashed and broken dial indicators. I...