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A few days ago days ago I was turning down some mild steel round bar to 5mm. The HSS tool I was using was a little large for the job and was not leaving a very nice finish so I grabbed a mini indexable turn tool I had that had a CCGT060204-4K polished insert made for cutting aluminum, which...

I have been working on this thing for about 2 years off and on between other projects and I finally got it done, painted and mounted. I had to rely on my many years of experience to set the rotary valves as there is no good description I could find on just where to set the opening and closing...

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I was recently machining some very small parts in the lathe and decided I could only access it with 1/4" cutting tools. I want to have a good rigid mount for the 1/4 cutting tool so I squared up a piece of mild steel stock I had to fit the full length of the 1/2' slot in the AXA tool holder. I...

When I sold my old combination lathe and bought a new lathe I kept the AXA tool post and tooling to put on the new machine. After getting it mounted up I found the the compound was a little too high even when the tool holders were at the very bottom of the travel. The largest I could use in...

For a few years now they keep saying they will be locating to a new location soon.

Does anyone know what has become of Joe Pie? It must be a month and half since he has posted anything on his Youtube sight.

Yesterday was not such a good day. I was just finishing up a small mild steel part for the Corliss engine I have been picking away at and only had two 5-40 holes to tap. They are blind holes no more than 3/16" deep. I got the starting tap down the first hole and was on my way back out when it...

In the cooler weather I usually wear a shop coat , but now that we have these long hot summers the shop coat is too warm. I have been looking around for an apron that does not have pockets. When I wear my shop coat the lower pockets start to fill up with swarf and I have to hang them upside down...

Has anybody here built the Atkinson Differential engine by Vincent R. Gingery and actually got it to run? I built one and it turned out very well. I went through the run in procedure by hooking it up to an electric motor and running it for hours. It seems like it is firing OK but not strong...