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For shipping in the US I have had great luck with Fastenal (the supply company does shipping too). I shipped a power hammer from Kentucky to Arizona for $300 a few years ago. The way it works is you crate it and transport it to their local stare and they take it from there. On the other end...

I restored an Martini Henry once and it was covered in what I concluded was rancid yak butter. Seriously, many of my 100 year old machining books have all sorts of animal based recipes for cutting and lubricating compounds. Maybe they are still being used. Or perhaps it is something out of...

I understand completely. My wife rarely comes in the shop but when she does, "Is that new?" Me, "Why no dear, it is a hundred years old"... It works for me but I am also careful to never disparage all the shoe box sized packages that arrive. The purpose of thinning down the herd in my case...

Yes, I need to thin down the herd a bit. The problem is every time I sell something a job comes up that the sold tool would have been perfect for. That said I am a bit redundant in mills right now and the same for cutting equipment. I looked online for the Southern Arizona Model Engineers and...

Thanks. It is, as always, a work in progress. Never enough room. Most of the smaller stuff is on wheels so I can adapt to the job at hand.

Hello to all. I have a small shop here in Tucson where I do machining, blacksmithing and some woodwork. I do a lot of work on older machines, usually buying basket cases and getting them back in operation. I love the simple elegance of older machines that were not designed by accountants...