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Hey Guys, Been several years since I've been on the forum excited to get back into the hobby now I have some shop space. One of my recent purchases to fill out a small amount said space was this sweet little Sanford SG48, it popped on Craigslist between my house and work so I had to jump on it...

Hey guys I've got a bit of a improvement Id like to make at work but Im not sure about the best way to do it. We have the female halves of banana jacks that we need to instal in a panel the only problem is they are so close together you cannot fit wrenches around the nut and the flats on the...

Im not sure if this is the right place for this so mods feel free to move if incorrectly posted. Anyway, today I received a little "toy" from ebay, a peltier or thermoeletric cooler. Im sure lots of people already know about them but its a fairly simple device but a lot of fun to play with...

Hey guys so I own both a sherline 4400 (long bed) lathe and the standard 10" milling base but because Im confined to a college dorm room I currently only have room for the lathe. However the other day I saw that sherline makes something that allows you to attach the z-axis of a mill to where the...

Hey guys just stumbled across this on youtube its a cool video from the 1930's that shows all sorts of cool mechanical movements. It reminds me of the crazy clockwork book that brian posted and did a build on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5pen3QMgzQ

Hey guys, for my machining so far I have just been using a pair of import 8" dial calipers. I've been thinking and for a fair amount of my machining, engine making included, I would like to be a little more precise. So I have started looking at micrometers but I only have brief experience with...

Hey guys Im a freshman at University of the Pacific in stockton california. Born and raised in Santa Barbara Ive always been a tinkerer making potato guns, go karts and all sorts of fun stuff. Being so young I have a pretty limited budget so I buy used tools and have to bodge quite a few things...

Hey guys, wanted to start by saying great forum, Ive been lurking on and off for a couple years now there is an amazing wealth of knowledge. And now that Im going to be reunited with my sherline (Im a freshman in college so had to leave it behind for my first semester >:( ) I have quite a few...