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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I have used a make-shift platform like that a couple times for my saw. I just use a 8 inch wide piece of heavy web 6" angle iron C-clamped to the same spot on the saw as Dan's is
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    BaitMaster’s (Work) Bench

    If you look on the bottom photo in post #221 you can see the forward-off-reverse mechanism plainly, it is the bottom rod of the three. The operating handle is mounted on the far right-bottom of the apron and the switch you wanting is inside the small square box at fare left of that rod where it...
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    Busybee B096 mill drill manual

    There are 2 models of the RF 30 that were offered back then, a 30 A and a 30B i cant remember which is which but one has a much heavier thicker column than the other and a slightly larger table dimension, the one in the photo in this thread is the lighter column.
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    current projects: 1-lawn tractor rebuilds

    Central Ab. 30 min from Red Deer...Im thinking close to 2000 km west of you.
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    current projects: 1-lawn tractor rebuilds

    Dang, its too bad were so far apart, I have two JD garden tractors (a 112 and a 140) scheduled to be hauled to a metal recycler in the spring That I would gladly rather see them be used/rebuilt by someone such as your young lad
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    Cyclical Mill Vibration & Power Discussion

    Methinks if what your looking for is that hard to pinpoint it probably is inconsequential and best ignored...a common practice with industrial & heavy trucks....just turn the radio up louder to drown out and carry on.
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    Machine Considering Buying a King 1236ML Looking for Opinions

    Avery inexpensive coolant system can be cobbled together using a common fish tank or garden pond submersible pump. the smallest volume you can find will work and even then will have way more pressure than you need but that is easily remedied, Just install a brass needle valve in your piping and...
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    BaitMaster’s (Work) Bench

    When i noticed the exactness of the castings & fittings of the Sait PM plated machines to my Taiwanese plated machine the course instructor would not acknowledge or accept that there would be a connection to off-shore manufacture neither ...they paid for good ol' US quality and "by god that's...
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    Cyclical Mill Vibration & Power Discussion

    You can search vibrations & noise in a mechanical issue with a stethoscope very easily . A very inexpensive "usable in a pinch" stethoscope is simply a thin dowel of wood (in one instance where nothing else was immediately handy i use a surveyors lath to find a slight tick in a 500 hp engine)...
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    BaitMaster’s (Work) Bench

    Hmmm one thing that surprises me from the photos is that the outboard end of the spindle isnt internally threaded. The spindle in my Taiwanese PM lookalike is threaded and I just matched the threads on a piece of pipe to make my spider, it was the first job I did with my lathe and 20 yrs later...
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