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I will be continueing this thread elsewhere! Dave Steamer all rights reserved

I will be continuing this thread elsewhere Dave Steamer All rights researved

If your worried about location and straightness...I would drill undersize, bore to .010 under with a single point boring bar to correct the drill wander and then ream to size. Drills just make non round non straight holes in metal...but don't hold size or geometry well..and reamers follow...

No Worries Mate! I got Veggimite! GoodOnya! :D Dave

Thanks bud! Dave

Thank you all for your kind words and support now and over the years. I am thankful to have contributed to you too! This forum has always been about respect and a willingness to learn. I know I learned alot! As time went by it was far easier to maintain that here because it became part of...

I would like to stop getting email notifications to my private email about updates in threads. I can't seem to find the settings in the account. Can you please point the membership to the settings? Dave

It is with great sadness that I tender my resignation as a Global Moderator here at HMEM effective immediately. I need the time and frankly energy to focus on first things....first. I've lost track of how long I've been doing this but I know it's been a long time. I would like to continue on...

What ever it takes Don. Dave

I think Harold Hall's book has a set of plans that describe the fixture appropriately. I don't think Rollie ever made plans...he just built one with the stuff he had. Dave

Well done CS! This is a great build...and has obviously gotten by me.....I'll be watching. NICE! :bow: Dave

Hey Simon! Well Done! I like your thinking and approach! and wonderful photo's! :bow: :bow: Dave

Nice set up and execution Jan! It's coming right along! Dave

YES SIR! That is the way to do it! :bow: Dave

No worries Mate!.....Like I said ...different ways of doing it... Dave

I personaly feel it sacriligious to put a DRO on my 1937 souith bend lathe. It is a piece of history." Well yes and no........ If Nat Herreshoff...the "Wizard of Bristol" a very famous boat builder who always pushed his designs to the limit of strength and weight 100 years ago had carbon...

:big: Yes absolutely the same thing...just different sticky stuff!.....Tony bird uses those a lot! I use crazy glue because it's convenient. Another Bill Smith tip for small parts.....super glue chucks.....Hanging on otherwise would require it held between centers (ET's suggestion) I think as...

Hey Bogs, If I had DRO's trust me I'd use them. ;D Every machine I own is for the most part old, and for the second part worn out. The reason I'm using the buttons is because, like you, that's how I learned it originally, and it's the only real way I can with what I have. Furthermore, I...

It's also been called a "cats head" though was semblance it has to a cat is beyond me.... ;D Turned up some bronze plunger pump rams using a rig similar to that....they were'nt round either :big: Dave

Thanks Jan! Thank Bill Smith, Master Clockmaker for that one....it helps to read up on all kinds of apsects of machining....not just model engines. He points out that most small holes drift....and to get the OD concentric with the ID, you have to machine it on an arbor to dial it out. Dave