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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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    Ammco 6" Metal shaper

    Nothing wrong with Fiats, they were certainly much more reliable than the MGs and Triumphs of that era.. I had '74 124 Sports Coupe . Well not an Alfa Junior , it was pretty close. The previous owner had pulled the pollution controls off. It had 98hp at the rear wells., not bad on a 2,200# car...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    A square hole is needed for mounting the tool on that must have shaper accessory, the one for internal cuts. Of course you could just buy one of those cheap 3/4" BusyBee boring bars and weld it on a clapper bracket. LOL. For a broach, I was thing of grinding an end of HSS tool blank like those...
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    Ammco 6" Metal shaper

    Thanks for the background story Tony. You were lucky. That is a beautiful kitchen. Every time your wife is in the kitchen, she can see what you made for her. My oldest son and I can carry on a conversation by just using the odd word. We think that much alike. He also shares my love of...
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