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  1. Gearhead88

    Looking for .375" & .385" top valve guide pilots for cutting valve seats

    These are the Neway cutters , yes there are pilots but not in the sizes I would need to use often .
  2. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    Sadly , lots of the guys that masterminded that mess have immigrated here and are in the reno / home flipping business now
  3. Gearhead88

    Looking for .375" & .385" top valve guide pilots for cutting valve seats

    Mostly I grind valve seats , I'm looking at expanding my tooling to cut seats . I've started with purchasing some Neway seat cutters , an incomplete set , there are some pilots , but I need to add several more sizes , these are the .375" top . I have plenty of .385" top , as used on Sioux...
  4. Gearhead88

    Starrett bandsaw blades - fit for ultra popular 4.5 x 6 bandsaw

    I'll try n' connect this weekend and pick them up
  5. Gearhead88

    Starrett bandsaw blades - fit for ultra popular 4.5 x 6 bandsaw

    Do you still have these ?
  6. Gearhead88

    New to me RF 45 ..... In the shop

    The panel where the controls are has forward & reverse switches and an E stop . And , Yes , the power feed , digital readout are both 110 v . I added a quad 110v box for those two items and a work light , the fourth spot is for a coolant pump . There was a coolant system on this machine...
  7. Gearhead88

    New to me RF 45 ..... In the shop

    Thankyou This is helpful . I was looking for and hoping to get some opinions on the " Asian " digital phase convertor . Originally I was thinking this might be a reasonable option , not so much anymore , the reviews are an eye opener , several customers fried their shit . I wanted to see...
  8. Gearhead88

    New to me RF 45 ..... In the shop

    Yesterday I pulled my blast cabinet out of the way so I could get at the back of the mill and peek inside the cover on the back of the column . Now I know what the 208v - 24v transformer is for . This is the cable that supplied the machine in it's former location . I feel the need...
  9. Gearhead88

    New to me RF 45 ..... In the shop

    Thank's Peter I'm not in a hurry to get this going , I have another mill I use often , I'm shooting for .... sometime before summer . For the time being it is a coat rack / storage shelf . The only thing I've done to this mill since it arrived was to clean it and get all the 110 volt...
  10. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    That one is a 1979 Sportster that I turned into a street tracker . I have a real flat track bike that I raced this year . I jumped in mid season and got six races in . Both bikes have hand crafted exhaust systems , made here . The race bike is a Buell 500 single in a C&J specialty racing...
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