Recent content by pherdie

What a great job, both on the construction and the video! I wish you many happy hours in your "new home".

I offer that the motor used with most Quorn units is a smaller fractional HP type and therefore quite limited in what it could do as a tool post grinder. If the motor wasn't the limiting factor, the spindle would be. The Quorn was designed with small tooling and model pieces in mind. It's my...

I don't know if this might help, but here's an image of an 8" Phase II unit equipped with the dividing setup and a custom 127 hole plate, on an RF-45, making part of a compound metric conversion gear for a 9" South Bend. [/IMG]

I'd like to preface my response by admitting I don't have an answer to your original question but I would like to offer you some food for thought. It would seem that the label stating made in Taiwan is important to you to verify your 'additional expenditure' for a better quality item was...

I have purchased approximately two dozen of the CDCO BXA series tool holders and use them with a Phase II wedge type post. Of the two dozen I received, one holder that did not fit my BXA post correctly (dovetail slot too wide).