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What was this? I see it's an oscillator with reverse, melted in a fire and destroyed by corrosion... my brother found it under a house. The crank still turns over freely, haha.

Harbor Freight's micro lathe is going away like the rest of the stuff $75 http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=95012

Ok, I'll post another of mine here... So, I've just gotten my new Sherline lathe converted to CNC, running well, and cutting threads. However, a few days ago, I thought I'd try running the sample turning program that came with Linux EMC. I might have gotten away with it, if I'd had a narrow...

Ugh. What a bunch of crap. >:(

Well, I've finally managed to get a lathe at home! To compliment my little Sherline mill, I've paired it with a Sherline lathe, which I'll be converting to a CNC machine. For now, it's a basic "CNC Ready" lathe (thrust bearings on the leadscrews, and motor mounts already fitted from the...

Have any of you reduced the ID of copper tubing by rolling it? I'd like to try to reduce some 1/8" copper tube (.062" ID) down to around .012". A coworker suggested the idea, so I tried it first at work, with a bearing mounted in a knurling tool holder. It seemed to be working, until the copper...

Does a larger T-slotted table for my Sherline count? ;D I didn't like having less clamping area than mill travel, so I made a table that'd give me extra room, without limiting travel inside the mill's enclosure.

Hey Zee, here's one you haven't done yet. While making a pass around the footplates for my Cracker locomotives, I had an endmill pull out of it's collet. I just happened to be pointing a camera at the thing, and captured 37 seconds of vid before I dove for the stop button. This is why I use a...

I guess I'll post a bit about the first engine I built, about 12 years ago, a Stirling hot-air engine. This is my only remaining Stirling, one of them being destroyed, another lost, and the fourth was never finished. This engine is based on Koichi Hirata's "LSE-01" engine, available here...

A drill chuck comes off of it's taper at the end of a drill cycle, remaining in the hole, and the next tool in the cycle slams into the chuck while your back is turned. The parts were nothing special, a many-piece run in G10 fiberglass. The drill and chuck were unhurt, and the only casualty...

Shred's build of the Cracker (April's Project Of The Month winner) has convinced me to build my own. I haven't wanted to start a thread on it, mainly because of the craftsmanship standards that I see on here. :bow: Still, here's my progress so far. The first thing I had to do was come up with...

I'm new here, but hese team builds look interesting. While I won't try to worm my way into the current project, I'm planning on joining the next one, if possible. ;D