Recent content by tourmax

Quibbling is just an older word for trolling IMHO. Easy to pick out points in an entire post and rip them apart. Be that as it may. But if you can grab a 10EE, grab it. I wish I could find one or even had the space for one.....I have to make do with my "crappy" little 1957 Atlas 10: Small...

That's not really a fair comparison. The 10EE is an industrial quality design. It was originally built to run for thousands of hours making high precision parts and needing minimal maintenance. By comparison, the hobby machines are much lower quality, mainly for price point. Original list...

Y Yep,there's greasy operators all over the world. I'd like to think it's limited to the "third world" operators, but you'd have to be pretty naive to believe that's the only place it's going on.....

Sadly, that old soldier will probably end up scrapped. Not a lot of hoe machinists have the space or time to deal with a lathe that big or old. I see them all the time on kijiji here sitting in a field or back lot in the pics, going cheap and rusting away just waiting for the grim reaper to haul...

Likely because they have a form of state sponsored slave labor and don't want to let the rest of the world know their "inexpensive" goods they just purchased were made (in part of whole) by forced labor. It's not all like that, but there's no denying it is going on over there. I'll stop here...

I'm not using the machine outside it's capabilities. Once was a 5/8's end mill taking a shallow cut and it stripped. the next was a surface fly-cut operation, which does put a bit more strain on the gear from an interrupted cut. But neither were very deep or being forced. the plastic gear in...

Careful with those CX601's and same machine from other suppliers. I bought one about a year and a half ago and have stripped 2 of those plastic gears. BUsy Bee is no help as they consider it a "wear" part. Yeah, it only runs the whole bloody machine! They will very graciously sell you another...

We're up the valley way. Little wind, some rain and that's about it. We didn't even loose power, not even a flicker. Lucky I guess....

Yes and yes. The lathe was pretty much neglected, but neglected in the sense it had been pushed aside and forgotten. That black stuff you see on horizontal surfaces in the first pic is actually multiple years of chicken "dirt"..... It was essentially complete, at least as Atlas made it back in...

I use the pressure type without issues. The key is to have your QCTP locked down good and solid and make a couple passes to create the knurls. Has it's limitations, but has always worked fine for me. My QCTP sits on a solid plinth, I ditched the top compound for regular use. I do everything on...

Maybe, I'm also on "hobbymachinist"...

Yup, I considered trying to swim from Cornwallis to NB several times during basic.....

Being a gearhead and always working on cars, trucks, motorcycles, offroad stuff, aircraft, boats, etc meant I was always getting custom brackets and spacers made for various projects. I'd always wanted my own lathe to make some of it myself and I ended up buying an old Atlas TH42 about 10 years...

Hello all. just saying hello from NS. I'm a hobbiest, but not just at machining. I've been a gearhead since before I could walk. Ticketed automechanic (expired), BA Soc/Psy, airframe technician (ret'd), aeroengine technician (ret'd), AME (ret'd), 30 years RCAF (ret'd), Flight Engineer (MWO -...