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well the ol mini lathe has been begging me to mod her now that my sb9 is up. I am installing roller bearings in all the usual places dual rollers in the carriage crank and soon to be rollers in the slides. But whoever made the gears for this must have done it on a monday I would like to cut new...

Hi Guys, I was over on the mini lathe page and seen a url for Dave Audettes 7x19 stretch lathe, however when pursued all it does is keep going to a bunch of different servers and never to his page or info. Anyone here able to help on this ? The page it keeps going to is"broncosaurus" thanx smitty

Well after playing for a week and making a few smalltools I made a list of mods to help this model that I found online 1changing to ball bearings on both cross and compound ,now as the original holes are somewhat sloppy would a properly sized bushing do as well ??? 2 ball bearing on the...

In a previous post I recieved a lot of really good advice,it is especially true as to where they are made. I made up a mill holder to fit into the collet when I turned the "stub" shaft I turned it to .503 and test fit it, it was a really firm fit so I backed it off to .502 .now when i lock up...

I purchased some r8 collets for holding the end mills in my mini mill , These were from grizzly evn when the collet is sucked down tight as the existing draw bar will let me i can still move them in the collet ??? When I get to work tonight I will look and see what we have for shim stock as well...

Hi Guys , Well the lathe is all cleaned and adjusted and slinging chips ;D ;D turning my attention to cleaning the mill I encountered an unusual situation , when I rotate the speed knob all the way to the left until it "clicks" this is supposed to shut it off , now with it in this position I...

I was wondering if there is anyone who has the plan for the nutcracker featured in the readers forum of the nov/dec 09 issue of hsm? this looks like a pretty interesting little thing to make in an afternoon . thanx smitty

HI guys, Well the last post I did on this was on the welcome page, where I had located a lathe and mill for a low price , it was all the add claimed, this stuff was used a few hours and put away. This equipment is still new, the question I have is the mill is the central machinery # 44991 mini...

Hi Guys, Well out of curiousity I downloaded the plans for the edwards 5 radial engine . Has there ever been a build on this motor? as I notie through 36 pages of prints that the ignition system is not covered unless of ourse it is glow and also the carb whih i assume would be from a large r/...

hi guys , Just a question here ,has anyone used the "diamond '" tool advertised in hsm ? thanx smitty

Hi guys , I realise this is a bit vague but I am looking for a stirling engine that was posted in hsm aprox 2005 or so , the author is a vo tech teacher (name escapes me) that uses these to teach mahine praties in his class. thanx smitty

Hi Guys, Well I have not as yet piked up the desk top mahines i talked about in the welome section .but I have a question about the 7x type lates and that is what is the max chuck i ould put on this?(central machinery) I want to make sure that for what i am going to be doing that I will not be...

HI all, Well after 30 years of not touching a lthe i thought I would maybe take a stab at it again.I was thinking of the bench top typpe as I have a neighbor nearby who is selling a central machinery 7x10 lathe along with a mini mill and a load of tooling and some material and dvd's on building...