I did mine with my milwaukie impact driver. Put a 3/8" adapter on there and then the usual wide screwdriver bit from sears and that took them out nice and easy. I had tried the whack it with a hammer

I stumbled across this. Uses Billy Dirk's kit. No affiliation blah blah blah but... It does have good info on how to set up linux CNC bits and find pins and so on. No clue if this is a good choice for

Maybe in all the excitement of headstock versus tailstock the post where I mentioned a pin was missed or maybe yours does not have such a pin. My mid-40's 16" SB has a pin in the headstock that positi

Agreed. No bearing surface needed. On my 16" there is even a pin that locates the headstock so you could not slide it even if you wanted to. If you did move it then it would affect gear alignment. Dan

I put these on my old web site since I have not heard of them being used on a south bend lathe. Collet: http://www.bconsultinc.com/db/machining/5R_collet01.jpg Collet Nose: http://www.bconsultinc.com/

That is interesting. I had gone through the NEME docs but missed that one or glossed over it. These do not appear to be the 5R collets since they are listed as 1. max dia. 1" and 2. threaded. The 5R c

Yep, me too. Fortunately I have a reasonable number of collets. Unfortunately the job I want to do I don't have collets for. Now I can take the nose part of the closer off and the adapter off of the b

Watched this with my coffee this morning. Keith making up a bull gear for a 9" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4cmRHClU9c .

$413 each per the sales person. .

Yep. Mine are not exactly like that but those are the beasties. I looked all through the hardinge site and did not even find that in their collet spreadsheet. Looks like they are out of stock and call

Hehe - I'm in DC so you are not that far away and I drive by tuckahoe on a regular basis - you could see them first hand :) These collets close by being pushed into the nose rather than being pulled i

I have 5Rs on one of my lathes. I can't even find a reference to them anywhere let along a 5R collet. I am stuck with what I have which fortunately is a reasonable set. .

Die holder with an auto release. Primarily used in production work e.g. on a turret lathe where you can set a stop point. The die will thread past the stop point until it pulls itself off of the pins

I haven't turned a rotor in a long time but the old bear brake lathes were not what we would consider precision instruments. If you can swing it then your lathe will be more than capable of turning it

I have had that issue with noscript. I have to allow the use-enco site and refresh the page from scratch. If that does not work then delete all of the cookies for the site and refresh again. Daniel

I use noscript which is similar. I think with adblock you can enable a site e.g. yahoo to send you ads. Maybe this page will help out: AdBlock Help AdBlock Help The official support site for AdBlock b

With all browsers having issues it is most likely a system issue. It is very unlikely to be hardware related. As a matter of policy you should update your operating system with the latest security pat

Good top on open office. A lot of folks are using Libreoffice (also free, offshoot of openoffice) now. http://www.libreoffice.org/ It is the standard for a lot of Unix distributions. It can read most

I agree with Mike - I took mine apart and it was not a bit deal. There was also a lot of varnish inside from the thing sitting for a long time. Worst case you can tear it apart, decide it is toast, an

I used an electric impact hammer and gently backed the screws out with a good fitting bit. You can also use the spring loaded kind that you hit with a hammer but I think the electric one is better and