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I have this Bridgeport which I got into the garage about 6 months ago. due to work and travel, I have not managed to work on it. However, I managed to break the ram loose from the mounting turret which was gooed up. Took an 8 ton jack to get it off. Cleaned it, oiled & greased it and put it...

Since I inadvertently and mistakenly hog the blog, that is, write things that the original poster didn't intend to go there, I am starting my own blog to hog in this post. Just first let me make things "perfectly clear" as R. Nixon might have said: Please do not write on this thread unless...

I can bid on a mill stand, refer to photo please, whichis basically useless, however, I am am wondering if I could cut chunks off this and use it for cast iron engine parts, particularly if it would be possible to machine cylinders or any other parts from this? There are also some parts that...

Presently I am drawing up J. De Waal's 4 cylinder vertical oscillator, project #09A-14-00. I thot I would very much like to build such a device until I started drawing the cylinder system. My objections are that the cylinder wall is too thin, that it is soldered to a "base" to oscillate...

I have been redrawing this so I can more easily understand what this engine is and I have come across a problem: There is a section that says such and such is in assembly dwg "106" but there is no 106. This assembly is with the cylinder and a special valve base which fits into the side groove...

I've just realized that I haven't seen any threads about non-piston steam engines. There is a whole lot of them, including Tesla's disk engine that he claimed could deliver 10 hp per pound of machine?! Also there is the "Roots blower" with two lobed rotating "pistons", there is the turbine and...

My company has an old Allis-Chalmers lathe. Looks of it, is 30s-40ish. But my boss said it was 1950s. I thimk earlier by the looks. Anyway I lookt on the internet for something about it and all I found was someone trying to sell me farm machinery. Does anyone know anything about...

I'm thimking that since we all know about or buy Chinese stuff which has it's various qualities, quantities and low price, that India being a competitor of China (apparently don't get along very well and I thimk the Indians have less impulse to conquer the world by military means), that maybe we...

Since I have one of the crappiest lathes ever made, an Enco 9-20, and it is very sloppy and does not do left hand threads (which is a big reason I bought a lathe), I am looking to buy a better lathe in the 4-5000$ range. I would say the only thing good about an Enco of this size is that any...