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howdy hey. long time sense ive been in here. illness has me hurt . any who ive a four jaw (el cheapo) that i got through flea bay (ya i know ) three jaws work great but the fourth now so good at all in fact i threw it into the scrap box. im trying to maybe salvage it but unsure of how .the...

i bought a cheap 3 inch 4 jaw chuck. (im not happy ) any who the thing has bad screws the ones that turn the chuck jaws . has anyone made a set of these, ive been googling till im blue. ive contacted the seller to get a refund , but if it dont work out then im stuck with chuck. hehehe so that...

i was thinking about making some 2mt morse tapers with slits so as to hold drill bits instead of using a drill chuck. to save space on my little 7x10 lathe i was looking through ebay an saw some morse tapers with slits in them and though why would this not work for holding regular drill bits...

hey there fellas. ive been gone for quite a while had help issues sold most of my stuff now im retooling hahahahaha. got a 7x10 lathe this time around ( i can move it indoors if needed) so ive been toying with it. almost got it set up. looking forward to catch up reading now. boy i got a lot...

home brew welder

home brew welder

just testing the waters i might be in need of trade for a smaller lathe and willing (sort of ) to trade my 7x14 lathe master for a smaller machine must cut expense's so need to move to smaller home (but hate getting rid of my lathe. will include all gear and bench for same. just seeing how many...

hey does any body know how i can contact the mods at madmodder ive crashed my puter and cant login there no mo dont have the log in name or passwood no mo as my puter was saving this info. ya ya i know back up stuff thanks

ok i made a ball turning tool for my 8x14 lathemaster lathe it looks good. but my balls are oblong sorta. what am i doing wrong? this bar is about 1/5 round ??? if i can get it to work right ive pics of my build if i cant get it to work ill scap the dam thing(i really dont want to do that) thanx

this is the best thing ive made so far i really love this tool for extending drill bits i learned from here how do to this and man its works so sweet THANK U who ever did this first again thanx to this place i learned something and applied it to my needs :bow:

its prob been covered some where on here but here it goes *club* . how do u determine what size flywheel to use. (im quessing u would also need to know what type of engine too) but i dunno. is there a simple way of determining what diameter, weight ect to use. thanks *discussion*

my ? is how do u guys "n" gals sharpen those itybity drills ive broken three so far and i really need to get them sharp again or i have to go buy some more. and its really hard for me to drill itybity holes how do u drill them with out breaking those itybity bits. im having the darndest time...

well i got a running engine i built brians double scale beam and i must say i did all right. its not pretty but it does work im getting better. my silver soldering is not good but it does run. its pretty to me so any who im getting better and thought i would show u all what ive been doing...

well here it goes so let them fall where they may. i was reading a post a while ago and it really pissed me off but good. we (at least i do) have this (hobby) as something to kill my free time and tickle my brain (whats left of it) so any who some of us have mounds of dollars to throw at this...

could some body please put those plans i put about the welder into a pdf format for me . i tried too and im having a brain moment :wall: one of the members here would like them but cant see them. if somebody would please it would be most greatful thank you :bow:

wow i was reading and posting to this place and all of a sudden it kicked me off said cant find server what happened . i hate it when this happens i was heavly into reading when that happened. i tried to relog in nothing then i went to vist some other places and came back now im on again . ok...

ok i got these plans that i want to upload but they are in a folder and when i clik the fold it opens up all the stuff inside and i cannot upload the folder to here . so what am i doing wrong :wall:

ok so i have a 5 inch three jaw chuck and want to mount it to my rotab how do i do this. i see pics of them mounted but it never shows how its mounted. my home made rotab is just a flat disk but needd to know the diferent ways of mounting it. pics would help me better to under stand . thanks Thm:

can some body tell me what the angle to cut is on the belt conversion for the mini mill . ive made the large pully but the belt does not ride right so i need to re cut the groove. i dont want to make anouther one so im asking that maybe someone here aready has the belt drive could measure it for...

ok so i posted in the break room about my broken mill gear the one that is supposed to shatter did not. so i started making a belt drive for this mill a while back but never finished it. so now i had to finish it hear is my progress. the pics are not that good so dont hammer me to bad ok i used...