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I will be looking for a knee mill; not a huge thing mind you. Not immediately, sometime in the next year perhaps... I know only of Brother's Machinery Exchange in MA... Been there once, almost a year ago, nice place. Have heard very good words. Yet I would like to know if there are other like...

If this part of the forum is to strictly to give advice (as on first look it seems), take this as advice on how not to do what I'm just now learning how to do. :D So indulge me mklotz and dsquire - if you will; if anything, the replies I hope to receive would contain some tips and tricks...

Your Graces, Whenever I turn aluminium, I get long strings of swarf that becomes a real safety hazard as it spins and spins and spins... For example, see in the following short video time interval from 00:01:30 to 00:01:37... Although it has been sped up, you can still see that the swarf gets...

I know that this is not really relevant to the forum, but it involves a CNC Sherline mill, and it is a stepper motor controller for converting a Sherline lathe to CNC (using small steppers), so why not... The Eagle schematic is based on the Arduino platform. (Eagle is a wonderful CAD for PCB...

I have the lantern style toolpost of my new old south bend 10K. This was enough to justify making a QCTP - roughly the size of those sold by A2Z. This is a toolholder with a 1/4 right hand tool in it. this is the body, made out of aluminium. 2 dovetails. this is the thingy that...

Here's how the freshly oiled and cleaned light ten looks at this point. I will post some photos of how we got here in a later post. I wanted the cabinet darker and the lathe more towards the beige, but I don't give a rat's a$& :D . Leveled and set in it's permanent place... Another look...

I have a SB10K and want to make a thread dial, just for the heck of it. The lathe has a 0.750" 8tpi acme leadscrew. I am about to cut the gear on my sherline mill. But before messing up, I should ask someone who does know better :) I believe I need a 32 tooth gear. I understand the logic of...

Whaddayathink? ways are worn (no scraping marks in the high traffic areas), backlash is excessive (20-30 thou at least)... Is it worth my thinking about it? 4jaw chuck and 2 3-jaw chucks included. also a nice QCTP. What says you? t

I have very light machines -- I play with a sherline mill and lathe, so a couple of IKEA tables was all I had. I do detailed work mostly, and I like standing up. So I saw in the car shop that they had this nice high bench, -- by high I mean 42", and I liked it a lot. So I decided to make a...

A bit of craft foam from Michael's Crafts and 30 min with the Xacto knife set and voila and with the tools in hope some of you find this useful... take care, tom in MA

I have broken more small carbide drills than I care to remember while drilling on the lathe. :) :) I use small diameter drills with 1/8 shank purchased for peanuts from Horrible Freight. They break because of suboptimal headstock to tailstock alignment. The alignment in my Sherline is 5" off. I...

Here's my thoughts.. I'd value any feedback... I get a lot of chatter when I part off on my Sherline. Gibs are tight. 1. I often use a 1/8 inch cutoff tool (from taig) that I have mounted on the forward tool post. The bit cuts exactly at the center. I get lot of chatter with larger diameter...

Once upon a time Dean showed how he touches up chipped carbide cutters... I took his cue and ground a chipped 1/16 solid carbide endmill to make a miniature boring bar... have you seen for how much they go? With the one shown here I can easily bore 0.064" holes -- such as the hole for the...

It's been several months since I did any machining... we moved in the meanwhile and it took me too long to deploy the tools again... before going back to micromachine the 1/4 scale of the tiny, I made a better bugger to hold the dial test indicator I use to tram the mill... here's the old...

If your Graces have not seen his worship's workshop and mods, you might be happier for it. By the appellation of tryally wanders he in the vastness of the interweb; th'o his given forename is Luis, and family name is Ally. A sage, no doubt, who teaches by example, has posted many instructional...

I use this setup even with #83 carbide drills and happily report that none has broken... (during height setting that is)... Works for metal parts. I hook up the multimeter and check for conductivity in the 0-200 Ohm range. I lower the Z axis 0.0005" at a time and give it a couple of secs to get...

WW collets are 0.312-.313 in width and they are supposed to hold really small work very accurately. I got my self a few numbers from fee-bay and set out to make an adaptor for my Sherline lathe. This is a simple sleeve that fits into the Morse 1 taper of the spindle and holds the collet...

I've not been there yet, by Joseph went and was kind enough to bring these photos at work... This is the machine. This is the small label that describes it Visit http://www.americanprecision.org/ for details. Will go sometime soon. Maybe next year.

Mill tramming may be too mundane a topic for your graces, but what the heck, today it was mill tramming day and I think the first time I really got it OK. Jerry G, webmentor to me and a bunch of younger and older sobs, suggested that all poor souls with a mill learn how to tram it properly...

At least this is what I dubbed them. I have a Sherline 5400 CNC mill which I use both as a manual and as a CNC. A couple of months back the Z axis stopped working and my sensitive nostrils got a whiff of the all too familiar You-fried-another-IC smell coming out of the stepper motor driver...