Search results

On both my metal lathe and my wood lathe I find that a tailstock quill travel of (barely) 40mm (more like 35mm) is not enough for some of the drilling operations I do. It isn't as bothersome on the metal lathe because the bed is a V bed and withdrawing the whole tailstock, clearing the drill...

Too hot to do anything too strenuous in the shed today, 6th consecutive day over 35 and we're still in spring I seem to be always looking for either a spanner or a mallet when I have to do up or undo the drawbar on both my 9x20 metal lathe and my X2 Mini Mill. As luck would have it, they both...

I have been trying to select an appropriate sized rotary table for my X2 mill, as well as deciding which rotary table brand to buy. On Friday I inspected the Vertex brand rotary table and was quite impressed with the quality. It was fairly clear that the 6" would be too big for the X2. However...

New here, so not sure whether this is the right forum, seemed to be closest to the topic. Went to the above exhibition today, took afew photos that I thought might be of interest of members of this forum...