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Hi Guys, I haven't posted in ages, doesn't mean I wasn't machining apart from some time I had to be away. It still takes me a long time to make anything so my progress is still slow. My interest in the meantime has turned away from engines, ( I am working on tooling again ) but I have...

Last post a few months ago ... I reckon this thread deserves a bump. So this guy really enjoys Chelsea buns and buys one at the local baker. As he's so fond of them he gets really peeved when he finds a fly in his bun and goes back to the baker to lodge his complaint. "No problem, don't...

Hi Guys, I did not believe this but Issues 1 through to 160 of Model Engineer's Workshop Magazine are available for download. I wonder how they got around copyright issues. Somehow I think Internet Archive would not be in violation of copyright, but there they are. The scan quality is not...

Anyone make a fileholder for a shaper? Ant

Do any of you like the Chee Po split point drills? Sometimes you get sets like 2mm to 6.5 , 8 or 10mm by halves quite cheap here in RSA, split point drills Ti coated that I found cut pretty straight. Once you get them started even quite big ones drill easily deeper than their pilot hole. So...

Thanks guys can't buy key steel here, I'm at the end of nowhere over here, the nearest place I know where you can sometimes get it is 200km away. I've started making the key from some nice mystery metal, a scrap steering shaft, in the shaper. The stub of stock gives me something to hold on to...

Trying to crank my homemade rotab, I completely distorted the key in the keyway. I'm using a lathe change wheel and a mod1 worm I made. Most of the backlash was in the key. The gear fits closely with the shaft. Please give some advise about material for a 4mm keyway and how best to make and fit...

Myself, I think a shaper is the bee's knees for making dovetails. When I made my (not so )QCTP I decided against dovetails and made a cylindrical toolpost with toolholders clamping around it with a cotter pin, gives a great clamping action. I wish I could post pix. Ant

Over at Practical Machinist the experts like to say any oil is better than no oil. Ant

Well I took the carriage off without taking the apron apart, just blocked the apron with wood and wedges to keep it in place. Gave everything a good cleaning. And now I get a chance to use a big word. Cut new felt way wipers from felt I got from the local haberdasher. The old ones were not...

My pet elephant is in Cy's veggie patch. Looks like I'll be tearing down the carriage. There's only a feedscrew going through the apron. I guess I should be taking pics, the easier to ask for help if I get stuck. Thanx guys, Ant

To my not so experienced eye it seems that the majority of manual lathes have a similar arrangement for the lathe bed. I think this is called a double prismatic bed where the carriage rides on a prism and a flat surface and the tailstock fits on a second prism and flat surface. What goes on...

Thanks Tin And Goldstar. I'm starting to "get" lathework but have only made the smallest of starts on milling. My current mill is a clapped out RF25 (I think, maybe an RF30). The quill is bad, feednuts very worn and some bozo had the table ground and it is out of square with the column by...

These things do matter and you, GS and I have a fundamentally different approach to life

Life is stressful for me GS, and I need and appreciate my comfort zone. Eggs in other baskets

In the sixties my friend swopped his lekker Strat for a clapped out old Les Paul. I thought it a dumb move

I don’t really s’pose that anyone would take me seriously (as a machinist), so two things: A is a one liner that I think I should be paid for (although it uses quite big words and is a bit too true to be philosophical) and B is that I want a big bad milling machine. Now South African...

Hey Arnak I keep some steel nails with my 4mm round HSS to practice grinding, especially bits to fit the boring bar at 45deg. I haven't tried line boring yet. Did you make some arrangement to advance the bit? Ant

Thanks so much Goldstar, I'd forgotten that one, and I had used that method before.

Hi Guys, Having transfered a cylinder from the lathe to my mill-drill is there an easy way to pick up the diameter to cross drill through the diameter? Is there a precise method? Thanx again, Ant PS: I hope you guys in NYC and NJ are OK