Anyone have a line on a good bed for a 16" underdrive? I know a person with a 16/24 that has the dual lever gearbox. It's bed is extremely worn, so the saddle would be too. It's a big long one with a

wrote: Some decent money can be made with a 3D printer. One woman was selling (might still be) 3D printed cookie cutters in PLA on Etsy. The site told how many she'd sold so I did a guesstimate/averag

For anything that needs to take mechanical stress you should set it to 100% in-fill. Since your printer can print ABS, you should be able to adjust the temperature to print nylon, which tends to have

[SOUTHBENDLATHE] wrote: You might find one by posting an ad here http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/tooling-parts-accessories-sale-wanted/ or in the South Bend section of that forum. I found a tails

wrote: It's built into Windows Explorer. It opens ZIP files like folders.

Windows XP and later have built in ZIP extraction.

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.

I'm installing a 1HP 110V DC treadmill motor on a *cough*Jet 9x20*cough* I'm converting to CNC. Older treadmills without all the fancy frills tend to be easier to use the parts from. The one I got the

Dunno about sketching but there are several Free CAD programs. One of them is unsurprisingly called FreeCAD.

VFD outputs should be connected directly to the motor. Switches, fuses, line conditioners, noise filters etc should be on the line side of the VFD - unless specific recommendations or requirements are

wrote: What about the real early ones before WW1? The circa 1914 Sears Expert* I had, had a plain steel ring bearing on a bronze insert bearing, with a second ring sorta held to the pulley with two pi

Two most common ways I've seen are a threaded hole for a bolt, or a smooth stud with a threaded end for a nut. Either way they loosen to move the dial gear in or out of engagement and tighten to hold

[SOUTHBENDLATHE] wrote: Boston gear has pinion wire in steel and brass, 14.5 PA, 24, 32 & 48 DP. I've seen gear toothed rod in larger sizes but only in 20 degree pressure angle.

As long as they are anything other than 14 DP, you can usually get a stock gear that can be bored, narrowed etc as needed to replace an old gear. Sometimes you can't get a stock gear quite as wide as

My thought on that sinkhole and how it happened right under the center of the building is it's the building's fault. Caves that are full of water have to erode very close to the surface to collapse an

Looks like a 9" Workshop. Concave feet. Hard to tell bit un the 6th picture it looks like it could be a top oiler. https://bidopia.auctionflex.com/showlot.ap?co=2&weiid=19123298&lang=en This one's an

Dunno about lubing chucks but I learned from experience NOT to use any lube on the curved dovetail ways of a tilting vise. It matters not how tight the clamp is cranked down it will slip if there's lu

ACME or square thread would be much stronger than pointed or buttress.

Essentially the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_stock#Drill_rod

I thought horsepower was how fast you hit the wall and torque was how far you moved the wall? ;)