Recent content by Stellrammer

This cost $15 Amcn , after a day of diving and drinking with my taxi driver in Dominica. His wife had a hair shop next to the pub. Almost missed the cruise ship departure.

$20 in the small town of Dutton in SouthWestern Ont, I leave a tip of $5-10 depending on the bill denominations and change back, it’s a 10 minute job.

I’ve used an ancient National Triplex reel type fairway mower for years. I’ve even purchased an Ideal, reel and knife sharpening machine from the 50s to do the reels, the sort of machine advertised in Popular Mechanics to the homeowner to make money on the weekends sharpening the neighbors reel...

That is a big ass spade drill in the turret.

An interesting thing I’ve shared with programmers is a formulation for endmill advancement for a constant 2 flute engagement with the work piece, to prevent vibration. This is done by a combination of depth of cut and feed rate, 2 flute contact minimizes vibration, ie how much feed is needed at...

I have spare rebuilt diffs and overdrives, or just take the entire car

If the crack of doom doesn’t hold up or the input shaft is knackerd I have spare cases and input shafts that I would part with. They don’t hold up well when driven in anger or running non rotoflex axles.

I have a 1965 11A, threaded chuck, D1 was a few years after that, they are sturdy lathes. They do leak a lot of headstock oil though.

Satan bought a Zamboni.

IIRC it’s a 10” X 50”, new readout a few years back, 40NMTB,I suggested around $1800 for a quick sale, the single phase wiring alone cost $600.

A friend of mine near Orrillia Ontario is thinking he might sell his knee mil. It is a Balding, made in England. The model is a Beaver, no joke, it is a Balding Beaver. A very substantial mill comparable to an Excello, rewound motor 220 single phase. Any interest here I can pass it along.

A left handed drill from the other end occasionally bites and unwinds broken thread, about as occasionally as a stud remover works without breaking and compounding the misery.

I have bad work dreams, that used to be reality, of a Ward turret lathe and a railroad bin full of 7/8” X 7” shafts. Thousands of them destined for Roper lawn tractors mower decks. 46 years ago and I remember the sequence, chuck, face and chamfer, center drill and chamfer, tap, remove and chuck...

So that’s why the super fine grits, used Glendo accufinish machines rarely come up, but many people have made their own from DC motors and such. You can use the import diamond plate tools on them or buy Glendo wheels.

So you are essentially making d- bits like on a Deckel.