Recent content by historicalarms

My fav in high school....BTBD

I think that would be an excellent starting point for someone wanting to make rifle barrel machine...has enough starting points to make a worthwhile project.

That whole shop would look right in place wrapped around mine...

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do when big $hit needs worked on...rosebud torches and 4x torque multipliers can make things "snap" quite loudly when stuff finally moves.

from the photo and some of the post's . it apears to me that it cuts the same as any of the old style deep hole drills and they dont wonder much at all, they leave a centering dimple that is the last thing to be cut...the drill stays centered on that dimple and follow it through the cut.

This entire thread reminds me why I still use "pencil & paper" and the "English" language :)

My daught & sil have a comercial bought bandsaw mill that will cut 26" butt logs and as long as you want to make the track, I think they have only 6 grand total into it.

My problem is the deep grass "protects" better than my "remember where its at" function. Good job with the rotors John, I have half a dozen in that long grass waiting for their # to come up in the "project" list. those big ol' break drums that Chicken will laying around make excellent...

awsome topic Susq. I can remember & relate to just about everything mentioned by everybody. Acouple nobody mentioned yet....writing very important phone #'s on cigarette packages When drunk in the bar & then forgetting & chucking them out the window on the way home. Spending 45 minutes to...

My parts washer for 50 yrs was me and a pail of some sort and a trip to the 1000 gal diesel tank or the 500 gal gas tank...to the diesel tank if removing baked on crud and then a splash in the gas to remove any of the oil residue. the front of my shop must have had 500 gal. of each tossed...

My thoughts on this machine is that with an old mill drill base bolted to it , it would make an excellent milling machine with geared speed changes.

What a beauty, obviously had a very good restoration. My first thought was a bit over anghious on the price but that restoration work should be worth something. I'm going to suggest mid to late 30's manufacture, looks like a factory instaled electric drive replacing the overhead gang steam...

Night be late to the party but this is my 2 cents worth on drilling hard steel. 30 yrs ago. long before I owned any machining equipment a buddy of mine & I started converting milsurp rifles into sporter/hunting rifles. the availability & cost of the P14-P17 Enfields were our easiest...

A piece of heavy web angle iron is usefull when trying to weld pipe or bar in perfect alignmen. Vise grip both pieces into the crotch solidly and weld a short spot, rotate a smidge and weld again

I didnt want to "spoil" the boss here....so i fixed her old one last week....after avoiding it for 8 months.