Recent content by BaitMaster

He sold the mill, pending pickup, not to me :’(

I sent a message on the mill. Hopefully it works out.

You would likely be making some significant adaptor plates to account for the different frame size, and also a shaft adaptor of some sort to go from the obviously much larger shaft to a smaller one. Then you would need to figure everything out with the electrics as far as a drive, fusing...

@Markit https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1183932329994933/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks I spoke to soon. I would jump on that quick if it works for you.

I looked for a crazy long time, then found that SM Utilathe. I was freshly green in machining, and didn’t really know what I needed. I learned a lot with that first lathe, enough to realize there was a few things I didn’t know about lathes and that the lack of accessories and lack of spindle...

It was outside of his maximum swing and outside of his maximum budget.

You might be waiting a long while here man. Machine tools out here are both rarer then elsewhere and usually more expensive by quite a bit. I watched the machine markets in south AB for about 1.5 years and ended up finding an older machine I paid 4k$ for, not with much tooling but including a...

Looks decent…

They were very good. I’m sure as long as LD is around, nothing will be orphaned.

I do love me a fun tubular piece ;)

They are the bees knees man. Only drive manufacturer I’ve seen that posts failure rates + other stats like that. They are next level. Spendy. But next level good.

I got home from work and cleaned up and unpacked the taper attachment. It seems like a very high quality fixture, designed for more and harder use then I can imagine it will get with me. Everything is cast iron. The bearing surfaces are all precision ground. There is even evidence of heat...

Mine has 3.5”, however, there is a large adjustment range on the bracket that attaches the cross slide to the taper attachment…. Called the draw plate. See pic….

From PM’s manual: You adjust with the compound.

I have to disconnect my cross slide lead screw nut when using the taper attachment. That’s the larger socket hex head bolt in the diagram in the center of the cross slide.