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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    Hi Martin, I have 4 way SB tool posts for both of my lathes also but they are not Multifix.
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    Hi TorontoBuilder, Yes, I know about Amestra. But they have no local rep. here which is a problem. Maybe, I should rephrase my question to "which do you consider to be the best of the best clones"?
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    Hi All, Just curious and I know it would be expensive. Have a 9" and a 13" SB Lathe. One is 3/4 HP and the other is 1 HP.
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    A Project Without End

    Hi All, A couple of additional photos and a little explanation. Why the strange keeper shape? Well, the answer is you don't want any of the coal ash or as little as possible to build up on or adhere to either the grate bars themselves or to the keeper bars. Coal ash is very corrosive...
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    A Project Without End

    Hi All, Another rather unique setup. I needed to machine two emergency grate dump bars on this boiler. I won't go into all of the details but what we are dealing with here are two pieces of hot rolled steel 7.5" long with a cross section of only 1/4" by 7/32". Initially, they were milled...
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    A Project Without End

    Hi All, Finally, the actual machining operation. One has to centre the boring head/boring bar and this was done by moving the knee cross slide and the knee height micrometer dials while employing cigarette paper and sweeping the inner circumference with the tip of the boring bar. The smokebox...
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    A Project Without End

    Hi All, Boiler alignment which was critical for the one operation.
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    A Project Without End

    Hi All, 25+ years of work on and off to date. I did not make the boiler - it was custom made by one of the best boilermakers in the US. It is all steel welded with rolled in copper tubes. All of the bits and pieces for the boiler mounting/clamping system had to be invented /made as the...
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    A Project Without End

    Hi Mike, It is 3/4" scale and 3.5" gauge. Much like the Martin Evans Columbia.
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    A Project Without End

    Hi All, I am hoping against hope that one day, if I live long enough, that the locomotive will look like this but I am still a long, long, long way from that. to be continued.
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