Recent content by oldplaneman

I found a new auction site 'eyabber.com' that sells machine tooling. They are trying to be an alternate to ebay, but they aren't even close. They only appear to have 2 sellers. I've tried to buy a set of grinding centers for the last 2 weeks without success. They cant' figure out how to let me...

Rick Sparber has an article on his site with some info as well; http://rick.sparber.org/pfpc.pdf

Longboy you are obviously more resourceful than I. Thanks for the help. The guys at the saw sharpening shop thought this thing looked too cumbersome to be for sharpening saw blades, but now we have proof. Now I'll have to move the piece from my scrap bin to my tool collection.

Excellent work. It just seems too cumbersome to use to sharpen saw blades that's why I didn't think it was for sharpening. Now I have to take the picture you found back to the saw shop and show the guys down there. They told me it was "definitely not for saw blades". Thanks for the help.

I figured someone would identify it and it would be something very obvious. It's too bad the part is only marked 'patent pending' instead of a patent number. I've used patent numbers before to look things up, but no luck this time.

Since have been at a loss on thie item for months I had given the thought to saw sharpener, but it seems to cumbersome for that task. I also took it to a local saw sharpening shop to see if they recognized it. NOPE. I drives me crazy whaen I can't figure out what something like this is used...

I'm hoping someone here may be able to tell me what this item is. I seached the internet trying to figure out what it is all to no avail. I acquired it with some other tools, but the previous owner got it from somewhere else and didn't know what it was either. It is marked PTI 1010 made in...

The folks from the Home Metal Shop Club had an article on their website showing a technique using a thread cutter serrated mill bit. the article is in their newsletter June 2012 vol. 17- No. 6 titled 'Milling Serrations'. http://www.homemetalshopclub.org/news/article_sort.htm

I use the 'Fastcap Glue-Bot' to dispense cutting fluid. I got one from the woodworking store and it really is nice. With the bottle upright, I can sueeze the sides and meter either a stream or drips out. Another advantage is being able to open the top and dip an acid brush for brush application.