Recent content by TonyK

To be honest what caught my eye was the dividing head mounted to the face of the milling machine. In looking a bit more it appears to be a Fredrich Deckel Milling machine. Both appear to be very similar to my Tos FN20 milling machine that was made in Czechoslovakia, because being a communist...

I want one too, but... look at the price on ebay...

In a direct answer to your question...No. What challenge would that be? Remember, Canadian Hobby METAL workers? I am working metal into a shape by beating it into submission with a mallet. True satisfaction. TonyK. Grimsby Ontario Canada.

Pulley drive belt covers. The Ammco shaper was missing any kind of belt guard cover and as I studied many pictures of different variants over the years. I considered making a pattern and casting a cover. The issue is the size of the cover and number of holes through it. Gravity casting on a...

Casting process Video. A bit long 22 1/2 minutes, but all there. Take fast forward through the video as it covers more information than the posts that I have done on the topic. TonyK. Grimsby Ontario Canada

In this post I will complete making the side cover cast from aluminum before I go on to the next challenge of drive belt guards. I will also assemble a YouTube video of the casting process and link it here before any other progress is posted. As luck would have it there is a bit of...

When I restored my TOSFN20 milling machine, I took it apart and sandblasted it as well. There were sections in the castings that had 1/2" of body filler. I would imagine that most cast milling machines and other metal machines have body filler there for ascetics. I never bothered to put new...

Sorry for the departure, back to making a side cover for the Ammco shaper. The heat. To the left a bucket of anthracite coal, takes a bit to get it going but once fired you can cut a tree limb and put it on top and it will burn. Next a spreader hook to lift the melting bucket or crucible (...

Well thank you for the offer, I maybe interested it getting some logs. I have a low boy car trailer to transport my sports car and restored 1953 John Deere Model 40 crawler. So transporting isn't a big deal. Fence line trees normally are cut at 60" above grade because of the amount of...

Oh, now I have stepped in something. What kind of Sports Cars, well Italian. Now before you get upon that lofty cloud of Ferrari, Lamborghini or Maserati, I ask you to jump off of that cloud and seek the basement entry of Italian sports car, yes Fiat. I have 3 Fiat X1/9's one I purchased...

Thank you. Life is full of dreams and know one knows where it will takes us. I live on a 3 acre rural lot in Grimsby I never imagined I would be doing any of this when I built my house. Just remember 900 square feet of the 1800 is car garage and my wife puts her car in there and I have to...

I have been under the weather for the past 3 days and have not been out in the shop but have some more progress pictures. Some mistakes made, but I managed to salvage the part. Will get to it shortly. TonyK. Grimsby Ontario Canada.

Hi Brent, thanks for the offer. I had to look on line what a #2 tool sharpener looked like, only to realize that I have #1. Apparently these being smaller were often purchased for school training purposes and I the fellow that I purchased it from picked them up from Barton High School on the...

I built the shop attached to my house back in 1983. The garage is 1800 square feet, cement block 12' 6" ceiling, front 900 square feet are for cars, the back is my work shop. When built I only used half of it, just didn't have much for tools. Over the years as I wanted to do a project I...

Continuing on. I decided to make some new flasks. I really should have made them smaller as in the end once rammed with sand they were very heavy and used up all of my sand for such a small part. Next I needed to sift the sand. I have a sheet of thin plastic on the table saw to keep...