Recent content by mickeyf

Reduced to $50. Someone gonna wait until he pays you to haul it away? :D

Yes, but... in general you want a sharper angle for softer materials (plastic, wood). I think 118 deg was "scientifically" determined to be a pretty good compromise. The issue with uneven lips is not so much that the drill wanders, but that because as the drill advances it pivots around its...

I am very much an amateur in the welding/brazing dept, but I think you would need to make sure that 100% of any oil was removed and that you removed the old (oily) surface metal by milling/grinding/whatever. To me that would imply complete disassembly both to be able to thoroughly clean before...

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/602705666146843 Size not mentioned in ad, but looks larger than "hobby size".

Actually shapers are more often than not run too slowly. If you actually calculate the material cutting speed and FPM etc, they can be quite ...um, brisk. At least if they are seriously earning their keep in a for-profit-not-hobby shop.

Surely you are not suggesting that you don't have a way to operate your shaper manually? A shaper MUST have a way to run through a complete cycle manually (slowly and carefully) before you apply power whenever you do a new set up. Otherwise you at least may not have the tool travel and stroke...

Ad says $1600, not $1000.

so I have to ask why then: Was this abused? I paid 1500 not too many years ago for what appears to be the identical machine in nearly new condition (one electrical issue which must have baffled the PO, but turned out to be an easy fix) with only the standard included tooling, no DRO, but...

When I was actually doing this stuff for a living, back in the dark ages, there was this TOTALLY clapped out lathe that was used only for boring out manually operated cast iron bilge pumps to no particular dimension, but to be more or less circular so that a copper lining could be custom fitted...

Quite a few Atlases up for sale in the past week or so, and at quite a range of prices. This looks like the high end, I think the low end was the one for $950?

Already looks better than it has in years!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/475421368899080/ Looks like a milling attachment behind it.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4817926635099637/ Poor photos, but it looks like it has a turret attachment for the tailstock and maybe a collet closer and milling attachment?

You are dealing with the symptom. You should be (IMO) eliminating the cause.

IIRC my Atlas MFC mill used a chuck like that. I also understood that the spindle for that mill was the same one used for their lathes of suitable size.