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I am trying to keep my shop clean for one single reason - if I am dropping bolt or nut or something small to the floor - it would be nightmare to find it between chips and dirt scattered around :)

Are there any rubber parts or temperature sensitive parts around this screw ? if not - If you have small Bunsen Burner or gas burner with pointed flame and heat this screw until it will budge. Soldering iron is not effective enough for such operations. Just few days ago I removed set screw...

What is this store ? can you share link to it, please ?

I have Hendey tie bar spindle lathe from 1918. Still in working condition. not as precise as I wanted it to be, but fits almost all my needs. I will have to rebuild split nut as original (?) made out of babbit is completely worn out.

if you have resin 3d printer to you disposal (or friend with one) you can try it printing in resin. You will get much more precise and detailed print without layers and filament artifacts, and paintable

I am constantly using old lotions and moisturizers that my better part is throwing away. It is "free", it has same viscosity and smell :) and it is in infinite supply.

Great. Thanks. Compound slide on my 100+ Hendey lathe is very worn. I was searching trough internet and found different methods of fixing that - from scraping, milling to lapping off each other. this one looks most __right__ one. The only problem - I don't have sine plate :)

Hi Mcgyver. What exactly are you grinding in this setup. It might be camera angle and perspective, but none of the angles is matching dovetails?

I have it already. It is older type scales and head is not so much intelligent as modern ones, but I have it for free.

Hi folks. Need to cut glass-in-alum profile scale to size. There are lost of videos and discussion around - people just using band saw or hack saw for that. Who had a first-hand experience - is that really works ? Hack saw cutting glass and not shuttering it ?