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  1. thestelster

    Early morning after the storm - B&W

    Beautiful! It's quite a wide dynamic range captured in those photos. What camera did you use?
  2. thestelster

    BaitMaster’s (Work) Bench

    It looks like a make shift lantern style tool post. Maybe to get attached to the rear section of the cross slide?
  3. thestelster

    Clarkson Drill Point Grinding Attachment

    Well, it's not exactly what I wanted. The flutes are too deep, but at least it provides are really good grip! I roughed out the top curved section with the parting tool, then parted, attached it to a bolt, then filed, and sanded.
  4. thestelster

    Looking for British BA tap/die set, BA 0-10.

    This is what I use for almost all of my taps and dies. I do have an old set of BA taps as well.
  5. thestelster

    Clarkson Drill Point Grinding Attachment

    I made the handle this morning. I didn't like that the ball knob had a boss where the threads are, nor the seam along its circumference. I chucked a long 5/16"-18 bolt, attached the ball knob, removed the boss with a parting tool, then filed sanded and polished the ball. The handle is just...
  6. thestelster

    Shop Flooring Materials

    I used https://www.princessauto.com/en/searchresults?Nr=product.active%3A1&Ntt=Rubber%20floor%20*&Nty=1&No=0&Nrpp=50&Rdm=128&searchType=simple&type=search It works great. But it started to curl at the ends, so I ended up crazy gluing the ends down. Right onto the concrete! Who knew?? I also...
  7. thestelster

    Clarkson Drill Point Grinding Attachment

    I'm almost ready to start making the missing parts of the Clarkson Drill Bit sharpener. - 9" OD x 1.31" thick gray cast iron - 1 1/4" phenolic ball - 17-4 PH stainless 5/16" for the handle - 30° hss tapered endmill cutter I still have to pick up some 3"OD 4140HT for the collars. I also have...
  8. thestelster

    Tool Vevor Drill Bit Sharpener

    I just received the half sizes of collets for the sharpener.
  9. thestelster

    making a D1-4 chuck backplate

    0.004" chuck run-out.....so what? That won't prevent you from making perfectly true work. Just make sure you complete all the lathe operations in one go, without taking it out of the chuck. The worst source of error is not having your head stock aligned with your ways. (Let's not go there...
  10. thestelster

    Tool Caliper with broken screw

    Ok. Well, then, I guess it ain't a BA thread.
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