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Recent content by TonyK

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    Installing a DRO on my TOS FN20 milling machine

    On to the Z axis. As you can see the Z axis is the longest at 13 3/4". Here is a look at the slide on the bench. Although the travel is 13 3/4" the solid sliding way covers that I made reduce that travel by 2" on each side. The machine came with bellows way covers that were in really bad...
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    Installing a DRO on my TOS FN20 milling machine

    Sadly the TAVI procedure will not work for a Mitral valve, open heart is the only option. One valve was in need of repair and once there the other was bad with Barlow disease. TAVI inserts a mechanical valve in series with the defective valve so open heart is not required. Luck of the draw...
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    Installing a DRO on my TOS FN20 milling machine

    It has been 6 weeks since I had major heart surgery. Over the last 2 weeks I decided to get out into the shop and just do something. Nothing heavy but my mind needed to be worked. My birthday was in February and of course everyone wants to know what I would like for a gift so I said how about...
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    Secondary Operation Production Lathe, 6+2 tools, auto index, $3800, Black Diamond, AB

    My 5L Harrison came with a turret tail stock and I have had the lathe for 25 years and have never mounted it on the bed of the lathe. It sits on a shelf in the shop collecting dust. This is a special machine, maybe someone in India could use it as they run production by hand a lot. TonyK...
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    Deckel FP1 2500$ loaded , Cornwall ON

    Lots of attachments. Has indexing head and a slotting head as well. Picture above is set up for horizontal milling. For the money it is reasonable. TonyK. Grimsby Ontario Canada.
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    Moore Jig Borer

    Not sure if there is interest in this, but as I was watching Dan Gelbart's video of a very expensive Moore Jig Borer, he stated in the first 5 minutes of this video that this machine because of it's accuracy is worth $80K when new, but now can be purchased for less than $3K. It would make a...
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    Atlas Mill electrical woes

    Terminal 4 ( white) terminal 1 ( Black), switch the black wire. Ground to the green screw. TonyK. Grimsby Ontario Canada.
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    Atlas Mill electrical woes

    You bring forth a simple solution. As for how to wire the motor, we need to see the wiring diagram located normally on the motor wire terminal cover. TonyK. Grimsby Ontario Canada.
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    Cheap 4x6 bandsaw $75 lower mainland BC

    I have the same machine and it would always want to throw a blade if it stalled, mostly when I was using it to cut sheet metal standing up. I took off the drive wheel and put a 2 degree taper towards the ridge on the drive wheel and it has been fine ever since. I was really thinking of selling...
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    Atlas Mill electrical woes

    Okay, I cannot trouble shoot a connection wiring diagram as I have know way of understanding the circuit for this machine. Here is what I will suggest. Disconnect the motor and turn on the motor circuit and observe which relays pick up and if the contacts close. I suspect that the sparks...
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    Here is a few shots of my #1 with some tooling that it came with. I don't have a set of centres for it. There is also an electro magnet surface plate for it I forgot about. I managed to find a vintage 600 volt twist lock cord cap set and install it so that I could move the work head motor away...
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    Ammco 6" Metal shaper

    Gentlemen. The issue with the Model 40 crawler was that the first 2262 units used the short 3 roller track system from the MC Crawler pre 1953 to use up stock of old track parts. The Model 40 once past that serial number used 4 and 5 roller track systems and were stable for dozer blade...
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    Ammco 6" Metal shaper

    Thanks for the reply. I only tried to hand start it once as the handle came around hard and almost broke my arm. Men back in the day were different to want to do this. Mine has an electric start 6 volt system. Not a lot of cranking before the battery is run down. Starter is a rod on the...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Don't over push the machine. I can tell you that the 4 1/4-20 screws that hold the hub to the baklite gear can be torqued up without fear of stripping. So unless you crash the tool into the work, have the belts up snug to stall the motor, you should be okay not to strip a tooth off of the...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Very nice looking machine. Looks complete. TonyK. Grimsby Ontario Canada.
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