Recent content by justin1

Is it a Load bearing part or just a cover? If it's just a cover you could just silver solder the crack. You can do it with right flux and hand torch. Has lowest risk to make it any worse. If it's load bearing then I would recommend Tig welding with silicone bronze. I would talk to few...

Just so anyone who maybe interested in the shaper it will only be under power for probly another couple days as Heidi is renovating her shop and is removing the phase converter

Weird AliExpress I've kinda found to be broken some times when your looking for stuff it's easier to find threw google then off there website.

Wierd when I click it seem to work. But here's a link to some of the endmills I bought HRC70s and bought some of the HRC50s Xuhan HRC70 Xuhan HRC50 Xuhan HRC55 Roughing

@Darren you should film the shipping tag and you opening the box as you may need it for getting refund to submit as proof if you end up having to do claim to AliExpress makes getting refund easier. That's if you get some random box of stuff? Hopefully a mill shows up also I've had good...

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Impressive just bulky more then anything also pretty big lathe to start with

@Susquatch I agree with @RobinHood I would say rebuilding with better seals would be best bang for buck. As there really isn't any seals in bottle jacks short or long. Depending on which seal failed you could machine better grove and fit some real hydraulic seals as the bottle jack seals are...

Anything can be saved but cost maybe be too much. As for accuracy probly not too badly effected if all surfaces rusted evenly but probly be height spot were carriage sat. But who knows how loose it was before it lived out side and grew lichen. So I would be worried about bushings and drive...

Had what I thought was good deal on mag chuck controller and they sent me DM telling me they were out of stock and to cancel order. And the price of the controller went up to 275$. So most likely somthing like that will happen if not that's a sweet deal It seems that the cancelled order still...

Shiming the linear rails off the thing there bolted off then stabilizing with epoxy best guess. I don't think building a frame or linear rails are good way to go not cost effective and too many outside factors to control. And seen some of the large used camelback in states sell for fairly...

For shorting the lathe rough design of thoughts lol. Basically bolt 2 plate to both pieces of lathe after squaring off the ends and scraping back of plate to front of lathe so get good bearing then Installing bunch of small fasteners to join the two and red loctite those in. Then once both sides...

Ye that would be the hardest part is getting the 3 references aligned. And if memory serves me correctly most lathes beds aren't ground on the sides. So that would make things interesting. Still seems easier to build separate frame out of channel and build if off lathe bed to minimize external...

Interesting I will have to check that out as I did think building somthing external but you would still have to use adequate precision measuring equipment on top of the of large material cost. for a small lathe probly worth while but for 16' lathe probly not cost effective. Probly break even...

Opps the first video was spose to be of them using the lathe like a milling machine. Ye I would be keen to do it same way but after measuring to verify acceptable tolerances and filling any imperfections with epoxy or moglice and using precision stone to correct the epoxy and any dings so...