Recent content by peteski

You can also try CDCO Machinery. They are Phase 2 tool posts and toolholders, very reasonable priced. They can be purchased in complete sets or just toolholders in the size that you need. I have a set for almost twenty years and have been completely satisfied with them. They also do overseas...

Welcome Wis Jim I live only about 50 miles from you to the SouthWest in Buffalo City. My daughter lives in Connersville which is just west of you. A wobbler was my first engine also, even though I had worked in a machine shop for 44 years and just recently retired. Lots of difference machining...

HAPPY NEW YEARS TO ALL MAY 2012 BRING GOOD HEALTH MORE ENGINES TO BUILT MAY THERE BE MORE CHIPS IN YOUR CHIP PAN A FEW LESS IN YOUR SHIRT

Wife got me a PM Research Model 2A Steam Engine Casting kit, new wire strippers and antenna book (Ham Radio Operator) KC9ERJ Best part of Christmas was the family was all togeather. Best wishes for the New Year.

Almost ashamed to say that we got 5 inches here in Western Wisconsin. But the last big one we got was 17 inches. Thank God I still have a son who knows how to use a snow shovel.

I bought a set of these plans for the wooden steam engine in the mid 1990's and never got around to building it. I know I still have the prints and building procedure information here someplace. It was in a very well put togeather bound volume which The Home Shop Machinist had an ad for it in...

For a free sample of a very nice glass cylinder and a graphite piston go to Airpot website. I got a free sample which I am going to use on a Stirling Engine if I ever get time to do it. Their address is Airpot 35 Lois Street, Norwalk, Ct 06851. Great looking engine. Peteski

This is the second time that my wife has ordered from CDCO for presents for me and has not had any problems. The best way to order from them has been through Email on their web site. Their products seem to be of very good quality for the price. Things bought from them have been a collet set and...

[color=red]MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEARS. from West Central Wisconsin Peteski

Kermit: My wife bought me the same collet holder from CDCO last Christmas for my Craftsman 12" Lathe. I measured the lenght of the spindle and just bought a bolt and machined a spacer for the rear of the spindle. Works great for holding small pieces instead of the 4-jaw. It does have about...

Greetings I will admit to being a "HAM" , actually my son got his ticket before I did. Still a tech class hoping to be general before the 55th birthday which is coming up in May. My son is a general class and keeps teasing me about being a no code tech. Being a volunteer fire/rescue sometimes...

Burrs on parts can be as dangerous as spinning cutting tools and sharp lathe tools that are left sticking out of toolholders. The company that I work for will send you home and give you 2 days off without pay if a fellow worker is hurt because of a part that is not deburred properly. Vacation...

Just something I seen at a shop sometime ago. " You can walk with a wooden leg" " You can eat with false teeth" " But you can't see with a glass eye" Fill out the order form now while you can still see the color choices. Please "ALWAYS WEAR SAFETY GLASSES". So many young people both...

Just reading all of the posts about all of the other workshops being built or finished. I am doing the same thing after 18 years I am putting the final touches on my shop. Insulating and sheathing the inside walls so heating in the winter will be easier and hopefully cooling in the summer...

The issue of always wearing safety glasses when doing machining and not wearing rings, watches etc is something that is just common sense. How many times do we have a ache or pain that lasts for a week or so and think nothing of it? Well last week that happened to me, finally going to the doctor...