Oops. Forgot the old one. This shot is from MAY 2002 so one can see the lathe is not new. And it has seen a lot of use. Especially since it was the vehicle for developing my ELS which I used to day to

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Looking for bright steel, I found a guy on eBay selling short lengths.

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Hello all, I am wondering if someone can provide the overall footprint or bench space required for the shaper and mill, including the motors and mounts. My bench space is VERY limited and will have to

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For the gingery lathe a 3/8 16 lead screw is the designed screw. (~1.5mm per revolution) I can get 10mm x 2mm trapezoidal lead screw. This would mean changing the drive pulleys for this from 1:4 ratio

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What material did you use to make the spindle out of in the first place? What work are you planning to do with the spindle, and is that it shown in the picture? Do you intend to use something like thr

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So first off a brief intro... I first found Dave's books almost 30 years ago and started to build the lathe which took me near a year to finish but I got there. I built it out of bronze and stainless

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Looking locally, a 6"W x 1/2" thick x 36"L piece of CRS is $160. For ~$20 more I can get precision ground O1 stock, however, it would be at 3/8" thickness and not 1/2".

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