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This is not a political thread, its a financial thread. I assume this is the current situation for metal orders originating from USA? So...

Mine is quite rudimentary. Its a steel rod stick maybe, 0.125" diameter x 12" long. Like piano wire or drill rod. I hold one end in the...

I'm not sure if this is a Dotstripe thing or an Aliexpress thing, but I will stumble on a listing for amazing price like sale price...

I noticed my link has not been working past couple days. I think the host or redirect site is 'dezignstuf' ?sp? whereupon it goes to...

I know you can spend money like that on Techniks & similar brands. The ad doesn't actually state the brand. They are an odd size lot...

Its what's inside that counts. And I don't mean inside your shop :)

My motor adjuster assembly. The bolt threads into the upper motor plate, probably deadheading on the motor case :/ The pair of nuts on...

That's a good suggestion. OP said 0.090" which is ~2.3mm. The steps on than particular drill are 5mm so should work. Not a reamed hole...

I'm just posting plain vanilla pics using PC Win-10 via Chrome. They are not large files, always reduced to 600x400 ~150KB which should...

I'm not quite following this logic. A boring head with its rotating single point cutter is usually the go-to method to make accurate...

Looks like similar principle as mine, but you have even more room & access for hardware. It would benefit from flat washers on either...

I think these gears are always engaged. Power feed & threading are via 2 separate shafts coming out of the headstock. PF lever engages...

Thanks. I do have washers on both sides of banjo. They were just removed from pics to convey the first issue, the shank interfering with...

I posted this on another subject post, but I think worth initiating here as its own theme, so copy-pasted. I don't do a lot of metric...

What I'm trying to say is that it was less about belt tension & more about the motor mount plate being constrained. The difference is...