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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    You can keep it in my shop.
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    Shop it seems simple, but I need help........ Hammer organization

    A bag. A bag is the traditional unit of hammer storage. This is considered a very smart way of storing hammers, and thus the aphorism.
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    What's Paul up to?

    Not far from Vaucanson's lathe is this monster engraving whee by Jesse Ramsden, 1766: About a meter in diameter it's set up to make radial marks on a blank centered in the jig. The steel ring on the outside has fine graduations all around, and two microscopes to view the markings with - it...
  4. PaulL

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    Yeah. Totally annoying! All the assumptions we make now when we stick a voltmeter in there were borked.
  5. PaulL

    What's Paul up to?

    I got to spend some time at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris yesterday. This place is *full* of fascinating historical artifacts. From Pascal's mechanical calculators, Blériot's plane that he used for the first crossing of the english channel, a Cray-2 supercomputer, and so much more...
  6. PaulL

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    The only major thing I did on mine was flip the ring gear on the starter/transmission interface. The teeth were stepped (to reduce weight, I assume), with the teeth cut away around half the thickness of the ring. Some clever previous mechanic had put it on backwards, so the pinion from the...
  7. PaulL

    Hello!

    Hey Quinn! Welcome here from Victoria!
  8. PaulL

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    I loved my '63! Body 5083 off the line. I could absolutely see the rust in the rocker panels. Oh well.
  9. PaulL

    Benchtop Hobbing Machine - The BHM

    I was in the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris yesterday, and saw this gear hobbing machine designed and made by Theodore Olivier circa 1841. It cuts inside or outside gears - the configuration is currently set for inside, where the blank runs through the annular cutter and is guided by the...
  10. PaulL

    Anyone using natural gas for their forge

    The more important reason is to not worry about bottle freeze. 20lbs bottles freeze up too fast when forge welding. The 100lbs ones are better, but the last 20-30lbs freeze up the same way. You won't have that problem with municipal gas service. Though these days I'm using my induction forge...
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    Benchtop Hobbing Machine - The BHM

    Got a GitHub?
  12. PaulL

    What's Paul up to?

    Nothing much in the shop as I've been in the UK for a conference. But by coincidence, my hotel is just off of Southwark Street. And it made me look up my bandsaw... The F.W. Reynolds company has their address at 73 Southwark Street. My hotel is literally 3 doors down from the Hotel Mercure...
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    Possible candidate for 3-phase for my lathe?

    But you will have to program the Select Command, as described on page 79/4-12 Same, but with the Keypad Setup programmed (page 79/4-12 as well) [and @jcdammeyer's catch of momentary switches]
  14. PaulL

    Cross slide DRO

    I found I needed nearly 6" of extension to cover the travel all the way to the front. Easy to measure, it's just the amount of exposed carriage when the cross slide is all the way to the front.
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    Cross slide DRO

    Just beware - the extension might run into whatever rear shield/chipcatcher you have at the rear.
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