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Just saw the ads for two shapers for sale at Pennswoods.net. One is a 24" Rockford hydraulic and the other is an Atlas. http://classifieds.pennswoods.net/classifieds/categoryListing.cgi?viewcategory=Machine%20Shop%20Tools Looks like reasonable prices. Kevin

I needed to put a 6" diameter hole in some 3/16" thick steel plates today. These are nothing critical, none of the dimensions are fussy, they are just support plates for machinery. I've made stuff like this in the mill by laying out the hole and cutting close to the line with an end mill, then...

This week has been clean-up week for me, I have a pile of little jobs on my bench that I need to get out of the way. This is not exactly an engine related project......yet. I had thought about adding to Dean's excellent post on gear cutting, but I decided to start a new thread, as this is just...

I had an odd project to work on this evening. I have an older pair of binoculars, not anything very special, but ones I liked. The had gotten knocked off the shelf some time ago, and I had not realized that the focus adjusting screw had broken off. As it turns out, it was just a die-cast piece...

My wife had been looking through the auction listings and found this...... http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/photopanel.cgi?listingid=683952&category=0&zip=16836&kwd= Look at center column, fourth pic down. This auction has already passed, and unfortunately I couldn't make it; but curiosity...

While digging through some books (looking for something where it SHOULD be again), I stumbled upon some of my textbooks from trade school. This one is titled "General Industrial Machine Shop" by Harold V. Johnson, 3rd edition, 1979, ISBN 87002-293-8. The book covers layout, inspection...

I was looking through a box-lot of stuff we had gotten at an estate auction and found this book. It's "Power's Question and Answer Book" 1947. Anybody read this book? It looks to be an interesting read, there is a lot of stuff on steam engine installation and troubleshooting. It's written...

Hi all, I have this little bandsaw I picked up a couple of years ago. I bought it because it seemed to be a pretty well built saw and I was going to put it to some use. Seems other things got in the way and I never got around to doing anything with it. Got any ideas as to what brand etc. it...

I had posted a while back in the plans section about a remake of IronHorse's caloric engine. I like Stirlings anyway; but I thought that his was exceptional, and obviously others did as well. I decided to model the engine with a few changes that I thought may make a difference in how it runs...

The thread on collet systems for lathes had mention of Metal Lathe Accessories tools, the Loop Collet Chuck in particular. I have made the MLA boring head and have gotten a lot of use out of it. The castings and drawings were very nicely done, and the instructions well written, so in a...

Well, this weekend hasn't been very productive as far as shop work. I had plans to get some things done on one of numerous projects; but just didn't get there. Anyway, with the weather and all, and the shop being a little colder than I like, I thought I'd add another project to the pile. I...