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Any one here with experience taking one of these apart ? Its on a "Modern Tool" bridgeport clone - about 10 years old. Everything works (mostly) except the variable speed control is kind of "funky" at the slower settings as it gets warm. Cold, the slower settings work but after a few cycles they...

From what I've heard / read about Deckels, that seems almost "too good to be true". Top shelf, high precision machines. If I had more room !

220V is no problem, may actually be preferred as the existing one is wired 220V @20 amp circuit right beside the unit. Kind of needs to be a "smallish" horizontal as the current one is "stashed" under one end of my work bench. I don't use a lot of air although it has gone up lately as I've been...

Yes, just watched a couple videos re: mufflers for air compressors - I might just try that, probably cheaper than a new one !

Or contradiction in terms ? I've got an old Craftsman horizontal that has served me well but it seems to be getting louder. Starting to think about a new one, youtube shows some quieter ones. Any one got a horizontal one they like ? Don't need a big one, don't have space for a big one. TIA

Usually my fault for one reason or another but you know, cutting steel especially, is not easy on cutting tools and cutting tools are consumables. Sometimes we "consume" them faster than others - I think a lot of the time, it comes down to rigidity (or lack thereof). I sometimes shake my head at...

Brent, no worries, thanks for your thought. Actually, I do have one of those (not the cool Mist) but I do have to question whether air / mist would clear the chips - it would go on at the muzzle and the reamer is ~ 27" down the hole.

Thanks for the input guys. Crawling through my junk piles, I see I do have a (I think) centrifugal coolant pump I somehow acquired - sitting loose, out in the open. Think I'll try to jury-rig it up and see if it'll move some 20 wt cutting oil. If not, I do have 2 or 3 gear pumps I could try. I...

Application is reaming a rifle barrel chamber. Many that do this more than just occasionally have gone to a muzzle flush system where cutting oil is pumped in at the muzzle end (not high pressure, not high volume) to flush chips out the back end. Traditional way was to ream .050 or .100", pull...

Not easily, lathe is backed up against a wall, tank, pump, chip tray, electrical panel all open out the back. To get any of them out, I would have to pull the lathe (2500 lbs) out, put it back and then re-level it again. Its not the end of the world if I have to move it, I do have a toe jack...