It looks like our friend Al in Connecticut has imploded again. He has not offered anything for sale for the last couple of weeks and he has a lot of recent bad feedback. He "lost" 5 of the 20 items I

I bought a set of finishing reamers #0 through 3 from a guy on ebay. They are new reamers and pretty reasonably priced. The 4 piece set cost $90. Singles are $25 to $35. http://stores.ebay.com/XKUT_W0

It's in the album called FeedScrew. Glen tool a

Gene and Dennis, The collar is RH threaded. Gene will need to make a two prong tool to remove the nut that holds the handle on the bushing. There ia a picture in the photo section of a beautiful tool

I don't know if it is the same set-up as on a 9" lathe, but on my 9's there is an adjustment for the gear mesh. I seem to remember that it was a screw that bumped against the eccentric that pulls the

Rich, This modification replaces the fiber washer that South Bend used between the take-up nut and the back of the headstock with a needle bearing. This lets you bring the take up nut snug to the head

The MT3 center will stick out further. Your lathe dog may not have a long enough tail. Glen Reeser wrote: and a You

Ray, It would help to know the DP (diametric pitch) of the gears. Add two to the number of teeth and divide by the major diameter. Glen Reeser <rfrenkel@e...> wrote: have a keyed

Your cross slide screw needs to look like the one in this listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=57032&item=3833096579&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW The spline gear engages the worm g

Lurch, I misremembered how it actually works. The machined or ground surface actually defines where the halfnuts stop when they are disengaged. The "C" apron I have lets the halfnuts slide by the cast

The lower current would be at the higher voltage and the higher current at the lower voltage. Glen Reeser wrote:

You may have to grind off one side of one of the half nuts so that the interlock mechanism between the clutch operated feed and the half nut feed works. There is a pin in the apron casting that is pus

I think he is referring to the introductory course in machining, Machine Shop 101. ;-) Glen Reeser on while somewhere on the Regards, > Larry

I made an adapter to mount a Sherline milling column on the cross slide of an SB lathe. This is a handy way of doing keyways and similar work. The Sherline is a pretty small machine. I really would ha

Hi All, My friend Bert from the Netherlands is converting a C to an A and has come across a problem that I don't quite understand. The bed on the C is wider than on his A and there also appears to be

If you can mill the keyway you will have no problem. Shortening the leadscrew, adding a collar and threading the end should be no problem if you have another lathe to do it on. I did it. Glen Reeser w

Type in Al Babin in a google search. You will find multiple lists in the machining area about "new Babin sighting" or "here's his latest alias". I ground my teeth at night and lost sleep because of my

Pat, I would try to figure out if the clutch is stuck in the "engaged" position or the "released" position. If you open up the halfnuts and try to move the power feed lever on the apron up or down, yo

Jeff, Jeff, I personally have been cheated and lied to by Al Babin AKA Charlotte N. Cole AKA CNC Tools, AKA EZtool AKA Best Tool AKA N.E. Machine Repair and many others. He sold me a bull gear on eBay

Scott, Are you sure? How has this guy stayed in the machinery business? When I looked up the phone number in the eBay listing in a reverse phone book it belonged to Mark Cassidy. A lot of the eBay lis