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It looks like one of the bearing block for the leadscrew is missing.

I had this glass suction lifting bar and the rubber cups became really hard and no longer held vacuum. Decided to recycle it into a 1 1/2' round die holder, which I did not have. Enlarged the hole and added 2 grub screws and handle. A nice enjoyable hour spent in the shop making a super simple...

For a lantern tool post setup .004" is plenty good enough. If i was to make another one, I would like it to be able to reach the tool bit in the final position. Now i set the tool height , then swivel the tool holder to align the tool cutter to the work piece and finally lock down the lantern...

Lathe cutter height tool which can be mounted in the headstock or the tailstock. Skateboard bearing and a bubble level tube. If I put a .004'' shim on top of the cutter the bubble will be able to show the difference. The front adjusting screw make it easy to adjust and lock it in on center...

I forgot I had a shear tool. I made one years ago, I will look for it and park it with my go to lathe tools bits because it did work very well. With the shear tool and the top slide at 14.5', it will help with my sneak up technic to get the final measurement much better.

For accurate dimensions, I take my time and slowly creep up to the final measurements. Sometimes I have success taking a spring pass, it will take out up to a ~.0005" or less, the second spring pass ~ .00025" the last spring almost nothing. If I don't hit the final dimension after that i...

My drill press quill depth adjusting nuts would never stay put. They are both knurled, but never tight enough using my fingers and kept vibrating loose. A extra nudge with a pair of pliers did the trick, but it was annoying. So I made this drill press quill depth adjusting screw clamp, which is...

I don't know if these guys can help you, but they have made some specialty taps for me before and I was really please with them. ESTABLISHED IN 1918, Taylor Tool is a leading Canadian innovator in the manufacturing of special taps, reamers and dies. Excellent product quality and overall...

Whydontu, you are asking for an engineering advise. if in doubt I would get a second opinion just to be safe. I was asked to seal shut the large flange on the hadronic end cap of the Atlas detector at Cern. This vessel was about 25' in dia with something like 150 bolts and a large omega...

I had been waiting for an Ali express parcel for a very long time. It finally showed up in my mail box, I quickly open it, to realized they screw up the order big time. Duh! it was not mine but my neighbors . I felt so guilty bad , I had open someone parcel. I drove over to the correct...

Like Van123d mention " it's a compromise in an attempt to solve fitter training issue". You can't fix stupid Were I worked we had vessels with 3 feet diameter flanges and a small 1/8 " dia copper gasket sealing around the perimeter and 60 some bolts to tighten the whole assembly together. It...

When I first saw the Aylmer gathering post, I thought great, that's not to far. But that is Aylmer Ontario not Aylmer Quebec which is less than 20 km away. Bummer, Alymer Ontario is a 7hrs drive. Then I saw Slow poke invite YES, that a 15 minute drive, count me in!

Initially, when In saw it in the manual, I couldn't come up with an idea of how to put the dimples really close. Then saw Whydontu post suggesting a 200" gap, I though it would work well. .200" is also very close to 5mm ( 5.08). Drilling the dimples on the top side provides a direct view of the...

After looking at the Starrett manual" Tool and rules" that Chazz linked in his post in “Little Machine Shop Special of the Week:” https://qqp.mypresswise.com/user/images/STARRETT/Starrett%20Tools%20and%20Rules%20(Bulletin%201211).pdf They showed a vernier caliper with the two dimples to...

I made one similar to Janger out of an aluminum blank and it surprisingly work very well. I have demagnetize lots of allen keys and drill bits with great success. I have four small magnets and the poles are alternated on mine.