Sorry for the long-winded reply- Just figured if I'm gonna explain it- I will explain my thought process and the help I received as well! I agree Nelson- MOI has a free trial and I would encourage

Kerri I want to learn to draw in cad but I find that most are over my head and hard to understand. When it comes to the illustration and how to's they leave me confused. Nelson Collar

Gary- depending on how far you are looking to take it and what your "learning style" is you may want to try MOI (Moment of Inspiration). It is an "artists' CAD" style program that has some really good

You can make a tableof “X” and “Y” coordinates, in suitable increments, and generate a “Stepped”approximation, later blending the shape with a file. If the LED is not atrue

have two end gear covers,one reverencing gear set up and 3 gears,24-54-a 1 to 6 compound gear,9/16 hole,d.p. 18,was going to sell on e-bay but thought someone in the group might need.will ship for

Of course - the only thing that's particularly handy about the graphical construction, is that it's easy to fit and adjust to the shape one wants for a particular real object, at the workbench. The

I use LibreCad it's free and has fairly goo interchange with the old Autocad format. And it's a pretty serious 2D CAD program. Regards cww

When I get the radial bearing set in hand, I will check and see what fits and how much more washer I need. The old outer ring is the race of the original bearing if I read you right and it is so hard

no you use the old outer ring

Thanks Greg. If I had thought of that I wouldn't be so red faced now. Since it will be done in one setup,it will probably be very parallel on the faces. I wasn't considering putting my lathe back

And a parabola is the shape generated by the equation y = x squared. It would therefore be dead easy to generate using CMM, or equally simple but a lot more tedious to generate using the dials on 2

You have a lathe so make spacer rings of the thickness you need to fill up the space after the pair of hardened washers and radial bearing are in place.

O.K. For those wanting to see a picture of my three sided TP here it is. I dug it out and was surprised to see that as designed, it's not a quick change model. The maker used a 'locking washer

If generating the shape of a parabola is actually interesting, it's easy enough to do with just a square and a compass. A parabola is the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point, and a fixed

I've got a 1956 10K, rear-mounted motor on a steel bench. It came with a lamp that I think is original, but I can't figure out how it attaches. The base has a ball and socket joint with 3

OK, I think I've worked out what goes on here with Jim's motor. There are 2 sets of 3 phase windings, one of which is permanently coupled in star, the other set has both ends of each coil exposed.

Attached is the wiringdiagram off my 3 ph mill motor. It should help Jim B.

Does the motor not have any sort of a wiring picture? Usually they have a part of the nameplate that shows which wires to connect for each voltage, though I'll admit I've never looked at anything that

I had disconnected my motor so that it could be inspected. This SB 14-1/2" lathe has the original 1945 vintage Westinghouse 3 phase motor, which matches SouthBends data card. I found out that it was

have seen this done before on a metal lathe , The had the form mounted in the chuck and a wooden dowel about 3/4 inthe tool post and used the lathe as you would to cut metal to form the sheet metal