Actually the “must report” number for banks is $10k. However, the teller has discretion and is allowed to rat you out to the feds for any amount. It happened to once when I wasn’t wearing my Sun. best

Thanks all for your responses. It’s too bad this article is so confusing. I’m thinking now that it would be easier to just put an adjustable speed power feed on the compound and eliminate the whole pr

Group, I bought the eBay post for the “Home Shop Machinist” 2004 Jan/Feb. edition. As I read, it refers to a “Cross-feed tailpiece” What is a “cross-slide tailpiece”? Chuck Lippmeier

This is interesting. Somewhere I read that gun makers sometimes need 7.5 pitch threading capability and that it was very difficult to find tooling to do it. I see from your charts that one of the gear

Dew point detector: I just got my Arduino talking to my $2 China Temp/Humidity sensor. The software reports temp, relative humidity and calculates dew point. One of the big problems in my shop/garage

John, I’ve been able to buy small stock from local machine shops. They usually have remnants left over from bigger jobs and some are happy enough to sell to me. Chuck Lippmeier

FYI: This weekend coming up will be the Cabin Fever event in York, PA. I'll be driving down on Thr. The auction is Fri. and the exposition is Sat. and Sun. I'll probably be driving back on Sun. Home H

My newest toy is a Bridgeport Milling machine. I sold 5 cords of old firewood for $500 and an old rusty trailer for $150. In Craigslist there was this listing for the Bridgeport with a full collet set

I’m there now. I’ll be wearing blue jeans and a navy corduroy shirt worn open and untucked. Chuck Lippmeier

I’m going. Driving down from Foxboro, MA tomorrow and returning late Sat. or early Sun. Message me if you would like to ride along. Chuck Lippmeier

David, If you find you like Eric Flint then also try S.M. Sterling, both historical fiction. The granddad, of course, being Turtledove but I like Flint and Sterling even more. Chuck Lippmeier

Gregg, I stand corrected. I hadn't read any of the Gazettes because I thought they would all be fiction following the theme of the book series. While reading the books I became interested in the non-f

The Grantville Gazette is historical fiction following on Eric Flints series of books that proposes a spectacular phenomenon that transports a town of modern day West Virginians back into the 1630s Ge

You might look into Mechanical Engineering programs. One of my brothers has a BSME and he says that they taught machine shop as part of his program. When I think of colleges in VA I think of Virginia

I like my lathe a lot too but I wouldn’t date it. My wife would get jealous. :-{) Chuck Lippmeier

Doug, GE huh? I’ll bet their service dept. has a schematic. Chuck Lippmeier

Just a guess, mind you, but I wonder if that motor will run on 115V? I'm thinking someone tried to modify it to do so. If so, it might explain why the "earth leakage trip" blows and why there only see

I'm hopeing for some advice from them that's been through this before. I ordered and just received a new 3 jaw chuck and backplate from Shars. They came in seperate boxes so I tried to bolt the chuck

Craigslist http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/tls/3819931366.html Chuck Lippmeier

My SB9A came with a milling attachment but it didn't have the jaw inserts. In my reading these should be fairly simple to make myself so I set up some rectangular bar stock in the milling attachment a