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    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    I worked downstream of jobber machine shops. I got a lot of practice filing to get a fit.
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    12 x 36 lathe vibration

    Their sides bulge a little. They grip better. Belts require serious alignment, which they rarely get. We never likely to find them in out little machines. They tend to be used in multiplies,. They would joke that when they fired up the big gang saws the lights in the town would dim. We don't...
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    Tool Good Quality Files and where to purchase them?

    Draw filing is for looks, as it can throw your accuracy out. The English were really into fitting, millwrights are called fitters even, which involves filing and scraping. I'm ashamed to say some of my files are in such bad shape you can use them as mirrors.
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    12 x 36 lathe vibration

    V-belts work by wedging .I'll add another couple of V-belt series. The V series, like 3V, 5V, 8V . These are the modern ones. There shape isn't a true V. They are more efficient but require their own sheave profiles. Industrial machines run them. Then there are metric ones, which I haven't...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    How big for say a 1/2" ?
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    That's a good trick.; It was more the hassle of putting together another set of cheap tools than the money. I have an aluminum box in the back now.
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    Now that we have a square hole, there is some other elements of a good design. I will use the correct term, socket wrenches have come a long way in even my life time. The floor has been raised but the ceiling hasn't been. You can walk into CTire and buy a pretty fine socket. At the square end...
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    fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)

    David, do you even have a snow shovel ?
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    Busy Bee lathe DF-1237G motor?

    I found a used Baldor 3ph 2hp on Craig's list and adepted it.
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    Oddly enough, that grind on the chisel looks like it could work. The steel in them wouldn't. chuckle.
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