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My Liang-Dai clone is single phase which I’d heard wouldn’t change direction if I switched it before it stopped. So I tried that and sure enough it didn’t change direction if I was too quick.

Because the splayed legs always make it a pain to lift larger items. I’ve modified the shop crane for parallel legs. If it works I’ll post pictures.

Also keep in mind a drill press can be your partner in crime for sketchy shit: Kinda like a third hand that doesn’t tell your wife what you’ve been up to.

Welcome from a currently sunny but frigid Winnipeg. You’ll find this forum will often set records for how often threads go off topic- LOL. All part of the fun.

I’d like to become part of the group- because that would mean I’ve ended up with a variable speed drill press with a bigger throat. As compensation for my drill press taking up valuable space, I’m thinking of building a cabinet the drill press can tuck into, that I can store my 3 bench grinders...

Your charcuterie boards are beautiful, the Birds Eye maple would have looked fantastic on your tool chest though.

That’s going to be the only way I get back into flying I think, though I strongly suspect my flying days are behind me- I’d rather buy books and tools…

I’ve been thinking about making myself a new woodworking workbench. One change you may want to consider is having an empty space below your top so that when things fall down through the dog holes they’re easier to find. Plus that gives you a space to put your “ tools currently in use” rather...

Your design looks fantastic! Well done. Birds Eye Maple would really stand out if you end up using that. Have you thought of asking Fusion how much it will weigh? I should have done that on my mill stand… the metal carcass is 100kg and I’ve got a feeling the Baltic birch plywood and hardwood...

Apparently our lathes require two belts to comfortably switch between the low speed and high speed pulley (According to posts on the hobby machinist forum): Gates Tri-Power BX-24 and BX-25 I’m still running on the original belt though.

The same manual came with my PM-1224T lathe. You might want to download Precision Matthews manual for the PM-1236T, it has some additional information over the Liang Dei one. (My PM-1224T was a special order with a 24” bed. The 36” bed would have been lovely but would have also taken up...

Liang Dei makes the Precision Matthews Taiwanese lathes, it looks just like my PM-1224T. I wonder if there are any differences. The head on your’s looks exactly like the head on my lathe.

That was a great video. I’ve never seen deposition on Aluminium blocks to make the cylinders. Interesting the maintenance they need to do to keep their injection moulds for the crankcase accurate. I sure would hate being one of the humans that gets to install the same widget day in/day out.

I use non-steel toe elastic sided AirWalk Dr Martins with insoles. Since I get sore feet if I’m walking on concrete too long. I have a nice pair of steel toe blundstones which are likely destined to become my workshop boots when I retire. Oooh, I do like those. Getting my elastic sided boots...

I have a couple of problems with Dykem: - I really like the smell (I don’t expect help with this one…) - When I use oil cutting fluid, I seem to have trouble seeing the scribe lines through the blue Dykem. My work around is to partially cut the surface with my bandsaw, and then add oil cutting...