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After mounting my 4 jaw chuck, I decided to make a faceplate for the lathe. To leave the face at a workable distance from my tool holder, I used a spur gear with a 100mm diameter, 30mm thick collar. Even with this distance, the nearest I can move my carriage to the face of the plate is about...

I was given e Belflex Spanish/Chinese lathe and it only had a 125mm 3 jaw chuck. Today I made a back plate to install an old 125mm 4 jaw I had. The spindle nose on the lathe is a modified DIN 55027 size 3 type, being the only difference, the taper which, on my lathe, it's parallel. Turning the...

My Optimum F45 always had a "problem". The splined shaft on the spindle always had a little play and when I use the fly cutter which has 4 blades, the rattling sound gets terrible. Is there a way to silence this? I has thinking of lubricating it with some heavy sticky grease hoping this would...

I have 2 cheap bench grinders, one with the original 150x20 mm wheels and the other with a wheel/belt grinder combination. I was thinking of installing a green silicon carbide wheel on this one for tool sharpening purposes. My question. Is this stone "ok" for hss tool and drill sharpening? Is...

My new (to me) lathe has arrived. http://www.abratools.com/cat2011/paginas_html/121.html Spanish/Chinese made from 2008. It was a bonus/gift from my boss. You don't look a gift horse in the mouth but I don't like the dials. The cross slide's feed screw has a 2mm pitch but the dial has 100...

This looks cool. http://hackaday.com/2012/02/20/handheld-cnc-fabrication/#more-67655

Weird kind of log splitter. http://youtu.be/N1HZztie5ac

Check this out ;) http://youtu.be/ngb4SYR74m4

This magazine always has something interesting. Look at what they suggest as dye solutions. http://books.google.com/books?id=TyQDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA122&dq=drill%20sharpen&hl=pt-PT&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=drill%20sharpen&f=true

No comments ;)http://hackaday.com/2011/09/03/engine-hacks-convert-your-yard-tools-to-run-on-steam/#more-54711

Going through an on-line shop related to my other hobby I saw this http://www.geocoinshop.de/products/Marking/Embossing-Stamp-Letters-PRO-38-pcs.html that can be useful.

Saw a demonstration of this tool http://www.startwin.tv/index.php?&clang=EN today and I was quite impressed. The 4 1/2" hand grinder has 2 counter rotating carbide toothed disks that cuts like crazy through almost anything and without sparks.

This should be interesting. http://hackaday.com/2011/06/04/shop-lighting-weighing-cost-and-efficiency/

These few pages (166 to 171) have some cool tricks. http://books.google.com/books?id=RuMDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=pt-PT&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=true

After 30+ years of self employment, with the last 12 in partnership with my brother in law, I'm sad to say that we were caught up by the crisis. So many good years of electric motor and generator repair, automation systems build and repair till suddenly, it seems that the good old repairman is...

While reading through PM magazines I came across this little gadget ;) http://books.google.com/books?id=DuMDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=pt-PT&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=true

Saw this article on PS and thought that it might be useful. http://books.google.com/books?id=MjwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA68#

I saw this engine a couple of years ago and thought it's quite interesting. http://www.rcvengines.com/how-it-works.htm

Interesting link on gear design http://hackaday.com/2010/06/30/how-to-design-your-gears/ Thought I should share. ;)

Came across this link, might be useful for someone :) http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Better-Stirling-Engine/