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To get this topic back on track ……… I just checked my Craptex CT 043 lathe , @640 rpm , fluttering around 100 Db . I though it might be lower than the vacuum cleaner in the house , close though.

We're down to one cat now , he's getting on in years but at 5 AM , he makes sure we know he needs to be fed. I'll be checking the Db on that tomorrow. :p

I had no idea I was living & working such a noise saturated existance !! I have a Db meter app on my phone now , it displays as a bar graph , perfect for a neanderthol like me ,even my hot rodded unit heater in the shop is approaching the orange zone of danger. The furnace and compressor...

The welder ( not me )deserves a great deal of credit , this could have gone sideways during that part , ending up as a mangled pile of dogshit , instead , I was presented with a correctly welded part that could then be shaped and reworked into what you see .

I had to build a cutting tool that would pilot off the threaded hole . I used a spark plug , to make a 12 x 1.25 mm threaded insert for a pilot . Some sanding , grinding , buffing , filing , thread chasing . re-cutting of the counterbores and it can now be re-painted. .

A friend dropped off a very expensive Ducati single sided swing arm yesterday , it’s off of a high end Ducati sport bike . The swing arm was damaged by over tightening the pinch bolts which clamp the eccentric hub in position , it’s how the drive chain is adjusted and locked down when the...

Absolutely no substitute for hands on experience …… on paper it works or theoretically it should work has shown to be less than perfect on occasion

I think he might have left a comment a couple of days ago and then quickly deleted it , it was a reply to The comment I made about burdening family with the problem of removal of machinery . The comment was the first and only by a new member ,

This one sold recently in Alberta for $2500 . It's in my friends garage now . At the same time /place he also bought a mint Utilathe for $1500 , the pair of machines were tooled up very well . There are much better deals out there , the basement machines are a raw deal .