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Hey All, I was adjusting my cross-slide gibs, again, with hopes to relax the friction I get when cranking it all the way out. I had just put it back together after honing the gibs and dovetails, hoping to remove stickiness. Now, I think the dovetails are not perfectly parallel. Am I right or...

I have just started practicing on my Grizzly 9 x 22 lathe and get chatter when I'm turning, but not facing. In the photo I have a 2" steel cylinder, the end is good when faceing, but shows chatter when I tried to use a parting tool, also marks from the tool bit (the picture shows the second...

According to "Internet Quorn Lore" I am now a member of the "I'm building a Quorn" club since it isn't required to actually have done anything yet. I hope I will get into the "I built a Quorn" club sooner rather than later. Here's my question: The book suggests using Precision Ground rods for...

I just built a table for my grizzly small mill with two layers of 3/4" birch ply for the top. While moving stuff around I found a sheet of "formica" that will fit behind a book shelf (actually it was an empty wine rack). Is putting plastic on the mill table a good idea or not? Currently I'm...

Question in brief: what's a good size vise for Grizzly G0619 - 6" x 21" Mill / Drill? I'm tooling up a new mill and purchased a "distressed" vise from a shop specializing in smaller machines. Along with the tail-tail witness marks, it came missing a bearing, the clamp screw was too short and...

I'm considering getting my first metal lathe and being a rather accomplished woodworker I'm hoping that idea won't be a total disaster. My first goal was to build some Stewart steam engines, then I started looking around and started drooling over some challenger V-8's. I've read a few threads...