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One thing that a rotary table can do is increase the surface you can face beyond the capacity of your Y-axis. A friend of mine made a router table a while back and the router mount plates available were either to expensive(WAY) or not good enough. Some mdf was given tapped holes coinciding...

Regular bar and rectangular CRS is quite consistent dimension wise so I tend to use that when I need parallel's, have a few "matched pairs" in different dimensions that I meassured to make sure that the dimensional consistency on the pieces I had was good enough for my use(0.01-2 mm or better).

RustOleum CombiColor might be a good choice. Or at least it is called that in Europe, checked http://www.rustoleum.com and I couldn't find it but it is listed on the UK website. Know of one guy that did his car with it and it actually turned out quite good(lots of coats with thinned paint)...

The tailstock is 0.05(mm) to high, which in my eyes is rather a lot.

I am planing to make a floating reamer holder but the paranoid side of me just wants to remove as many variables as possible. Anyone know which would be most likely to have the least runout, a morse shank MTreamer in a sleeve or a straight shank MTreamer in a MTcollet? My money is on the...

I use syringes for this as well but I don't blunt the needle as the angled point makes it quicker to spread the oil on a flat surface. A really large syringe with a very thin needle makes a "flood coolant"(of sorts) to wash away chips when doing slotting with thin mills. Most of the time I...

As far as hazardous chemicals are concerned, part of my reason for coming up with my mix was because of the heart flutter/arrhythmia that I have heard many experience when using wd40 as a cutting oil since I have experienced the same symptoms. Looking at the chart I can't help but think that...

I haven't found it to be that gummy so it is possible that adding the lamp oil(which is purified kerosene) helps in this department as I usually add enough of it to make the vegetable(soy I think) oil significantly less viscous.

Reading the boring head tread I saw that lard was mentioned and as lard(at least the soft stuff) isn't something one finds in stores around my parts(only solid blocks of coco fat for baking). What I have found works well for pretty much anything(still use rtd for expensive hss cutters) is the...

Would that apply to chambering reamers as well???

Having aligned my tailstock to the best of my ability I found that while the horizontal alignment is pretty much spot on, the tailstock is ever so slightly higher than the headstock. Chronos sells morse taper finishing reamers, either with straight shanks or with a morse 2 shank. My question...

:wall: :wall: :wall: I just started on a new clamp plate(15x100x100 steel) for the compound on my lathe but now I'm torn, should I make a doughnut instead....... ??? Has anyone tried both, how do they compare. ??? ??? ???

A question/idea about re-reaming the tail-stock. Wouldn't it also work to do this with a straight shank Morse reamer held in a lathe chuck? I mean, even if the chuck has run-out it would only mean that the reamer would cut on one edge but the result should be the same...Right(provided your...

Black hands???? Try blowing your nose after dry machining cast iron th_wtf1 ::)

Sieg makes good machines and jet has a good reputation so a small lathe with say 20" between centers and a sieg mill is a good start to the affliction. A bandsaw would also be a +. I would advice you to spend more money on the mill than the lathe though. To make a crap lathe turn out good...

With gunsmithing a important factor when choosing a lathe is the spindle bore, the thickest barrel blank you think you will use should be able to pass through the spindle. Using a independent 4-jaw and a steady does work but it is a pain and it limits the length of barrel you can work on. The...