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  1. Don Sipes

    Vevor vises....quality?

    I bought a Craftex 5 inch milling vice. It was complete garbage. Besides the normal un-deburred edges , left over swarf and grease, the thrust bearing was active in the wrong direction. It functioned when the jaws were being opened as opposed to when clamping. The fixed jaw was not perpendicular...
  2. Don Sipes

    Little drill press

    I'm still not sure what I'm going to do. For now I'm still on a path to a 3 phase motor and a VFD. I've been searching for a 3PH 1/2 HP motor that fits my budget. I have found a number of motors but they are 575V. Most of the less expensive VFD's I've sourced are either 120v single PH in and...
  3. Don Sipes

    Little drill press

    Any pictures? Most of the treadmill motors I see come with Flywheel and fan. What did you do with them?
  4. Don Sipes

    Little drill press

    I have a 22 inch drill press but find it kinda large for some of my smaller projects. I use # size drills often. I was talking about getting something smaller. A friend kindly gifted me this 11 inch Canadian made Beaver for which I'm most thankful. I think it had been in storage for awhile and...
  5. Don Sipes

    Other Joe Pie ?

    I've noticed the same. I believe I read somewhere YouTube has changed it's monetization formula making it hardly worth while for small tach content contributors. Media companies and political content seems to be the order of the day. SAD.
  6. Don Sipes

    If you were to buy a rotary table again- would you change it’s size?

    I have an 8 Inch Vertex I bought at House of Tools years ago. It has a 6 inch chuck so is about all I care to lift. As I get each year older it gets pounds heavier. My mill table is 35 inches so for that reason I wouldn't want it any bigger. At some point I will build a rolling stand that will...
  7. Don Sipes

    Is Taper Attachment worth it?

    My Lathe came with a taper attachment. In the twenty years I've had it I have never used it. I cut short tapers with the compound. For long tapers I have seen setups that use a boring head mounted on a Morris taper to go in the lathe tailstock. Boring head allows incremental offsetting of the...
  8. Don Sipes

    My welding challenge

    For the moment I have been trying OA. I get SOME good results, but getting the same heat each time I start the torch is my current challenge. I'm using a zero TIp and turning up the A to get just out of the smoke zone then adding O. The just out of smoke zone is not always consistent. I see why...
  9. Don Sipes

    My welding challenge

    YES it does. But I have never really used it.
  10. Don Sipes

    My welding challenge

    Just plain old 1018 mild steel. I do have some MIG ER70S-6 that I will try for TIG.
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