Recent content by historicalarms

I was good in school...until I met "whiskey" at the local curling rink bar, me'n school didnt last long after that, then I met my "wife to be" and whiskey became a didstnt memory along with school...she was much more fun to wakeup with than a hang over every morn....still is after 48 yrs.

Im not sure my offering will work as you say the work is a big piece that mounting in a drill press is not do-able however it may be do-able with a mag drill. I have done this a couple times & it does work. I have had to drill & tap a couple very hard receiver rings ( WW I over-hardening...

One of the most impressive "home-built's" I have ever seen, I can bet you smile to yourself every time you "squish" with it.

My cover hasnt been installed for 20 yrs...hasnt proven to be a safety hazard for me yet, i just never go close to the back end when turning but with it off much better to listen to gear clash and observe if something starts to snap crackle or pop.

And those industrial hacksaw blades make excellent butcher/hunting knife blanks when done their life in the saw.

I have used a make-shift platform like that a couple times for my saw. I just use a 8 inch wide piece of heavy web 6" angle iron C-clamped to the same spot on the saw as Dan's is

Photos PLS!!!

If you look on the bottom photo in post #221 you can see the forward-off-reverse mechanism plainly, it is the bottom rod of the three. The operating handle is mounted on the far right-bottom of the apron and the switch you wanting is inside the small square box at fare left of that rod where it...

There are 2 models of the RF 30 that were offered back then, a 30 A and a 30B i cant remember which is which but one has a much heavier thicker column than the other and a slightly larger table dimension, the one in the photo in this thread is the lighter column.

Central Ab. 30 min from Red Deer...Im thinking close to 2000 km west of you.

Dang, its too bad were so far apart, I have two JD garden tractors (a 112 and a 140) scheduled to be hauled to a metal recycler in the spring That I would gladly rather see them be used/rebuilt by someone such as your young lad

Methinks if what your looking for is that hard to pinpoint it probably is inconsequential and best ignored...a common practice with industrial & heavy trucks....just turn the radio up louder to drown out and carry on.

but a grand for a $20 PM boat winch & a few bits of scrap bolted together???? dont know why it is in bold print???

Avery inexpensive coolant system can be cobbled together using a common fish tank or garden pond submersible pump. the smallest volume you can find will work and even then will have way more pressure than you need but that is easily remedied, Just install a brass needle valve in your piping and...

When i noticed the exactness of the castings & fittings of the Sait PM plated machines to my Taiwanese plated machine the course instructor would not acknowledge or accept that there would be a connection to off-shore manufacture neither ...they paid for good ol' US quality and "by god that's...