Recent content by sourdoughsmitty

well the ol mini lathe has been begging me to mod her now that my sb9 is up. I am installing roller bearings in all the usual places dual rollers in the carriage crank and soon to be rollers in the slides. But whoever made the gears for this must have done it on a monday I would like to cut new...

HI GUYS, Good info , the one I am looking for from hsm looks like a space capsule with a hole near the bottom and the screw coming in from the top this was listed as an update to the original design from some time back the designer appears to be a vo tech teacher and uses it to teach basic...

Thanx for the info ! pretty good site and that as a project looks interesting ;D thanx smitty

Hi Guys, I was over on the mini lathe page and seen a url for Dave Audettes 7x19 stretch lathe, however when pursued all it does is keep going to a bunch of different servers and never to his page or info. Anyone here able to help on this ? The page it keeps going to is"broncosaurus" thanx smitty

Well it was a rats day at work and I needed a laugh so I visited this page , well I got one and then some so I thought I would add one or 2 to the list Seems i was in the mood to fish for black bass one night and off i went ,when i got there I realized i left the bait bucket home --so off on a...

Great info all ;D, Chuck's reply is also right on the money ,it is a lot of lathe for the money , I was looking for a larger one preferrably a 9" south bend but most that I looked at were pretty clapped out. I answered aqn add for both a 7x10mini lathe and mini mill for 500 . These were 2 years...

Well after playing for a week and making a few smalltools I made a list of mods to help this model that I found online 1changing to ball bearings on both cross and compound ,now as the original holes are somewhat sloppy would a properly sized bushing do as well ??? 2 ball bearing on the...

In a previous post I recieved a lot of really good advice,it is especially true as to where they are made. I made up a mill holder to fit into the collet when I turned the "stub" shaft I turned it to .503 and test fit it, it was a really firm fit so I backed it off to .502 .now when i lock up...

Great info here, I will check the draw bar height and also check with an empty collet too , It was slow at work last night si I made a measurement of the collet bore in relaxed mode and found that my first measurement was off (aint being a senior fun :big:) it is closer to the .500 diam of the...

nope I checked all sizes are american ,of course when one is buying from china and india their interpretation is a bit off on sizes sometimes if my previous post remedies do not fix this then i will just bite the bullet and buy some mill holders given the low cost for the collets it would not be...

I purchased some r8 collets for holding the end mills in my mini mill , These were from grizzly evn when the collet is sucked down tight as the existing draw bar will let me i can still move them in the collet ??? When I get to work tonight I will look and see what we have for shim stock as well...

HI Gail , I amm the one who asked about glow use ,I just checked back here to the forum and you answered a ? that I emailed you about r/e cyl change for glow thanx that will help a bit I like the upgrade to bronze bush I too used many a motor with them the only caution to others here is make...

Well monday and murphy (sod) all ganged up on me :big: :big: ::)It seems the only problem with the lathe was that the operator was not watching the position of the chuck safety shield switch , I do not use this shield but have not by passed the switch as yet, :big: :big: soon as I reset that it...

speed control works just fine ,maybe I will do the switch mod,right now the lathe just did a strange thing, was doing a light turn and it just stopped. reset the speed control no dice checke the fuse ,fuse good hmm I have not been doing anything extreme to cause an overload so it looks like I...

Hi Guys , Well the lathe is all cleaned and adjusted and slinging chips ;D ;D turning my attention to cleaning the mill I encountered an unusual situation , when I rotate the speed knob all the way to the left until it "clicks" this is supposed to shut it off , now with it in this position I...