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    fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)

    I haven't lived in toronto for long but this past winter was the first time where it snowed enough that I had to actually buy a snow shovel. princess auto had what I needed - something small with a plastic hinge so it could be stowed in a car more easily. Made in canada too - how bad could it...
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    making "spherical" surfaces with a boring head (?)

    so I'm trying to repair the Kopp variator in my lathe. basically it's a continuously variable transmission using two drive cones with balls in between them. changing the axis of rotation of the balls changes the ratio between the two drive cones. the variator has worked OK for the whole time...
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    Other Canadiana - Last Minute (St. Catharines) test indicator

    here's a fun little historical artifact: a dial test indicator made by Last Minute Mfg. Co. of St. Catharines, Ontario (not too far from where I sit typing this). The dial is graduated in half thous and the name is vaguely reminiscent of the starrett "last word" indicators of the same type...
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    quick n dirty diy bead roller for tubing

    just thought I'd show off this bead roller I made in 2022 out of stuff I had in my junk bins. I used it to roll beads on aluminum tubing for an intercooler I was putting in my LJ78 landcruiser. front view isometric ish top view the body is made of aluminum and the wheels are made of...
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    making a D1-4 chuck backplate

    D1-4 backplate – or how to spend over 12 hours with thousands of dollars of machinery to save one hundred and thirty dollars One of the reasons my lathe was kind of cheap was that when I bought it, none of the tooling it came with was immediately useful. There was a (partially complete) set...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    Hi all, any suggestions for spotting blue for scraping and where to get it? a few of the usual options (stuart's micrometer blue, dykem...) I've looked at it seems like you have to pay a bit of a premium to get here. the stuff I have (PRM pro spotting blue) I find hard to see, and if I go...
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    measuring a tapered stub

    so I have this Lorch LLN lathe that I'm trying to tool up, and I wanted to make a new drill chuck arbour for it for a keyless chuck I recently bought. problem is, the tailstock taper is non-standard (non morse, and also like a half length) and there's no spec I can find for it (this lathe...
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    "small" lathe tooling - any pointers?

    Hi all, so I've got this Lorch LLN that I bought a couple years ago, recently I've had to use it a couple times to make a few small pins/shafts and it got me thinking that maybe it's time to actually tool up to make it more useful and less of a comedy item in my shop. The parts I've used it...
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    some light comedy - "dog's breakfast" mag chuck

    Here's a funny - I've got this round mag chuck I bought years ago, and I'm finally going to make a backplate for it to use it for something (the idea is to use it to make tapered gibs to restore my lathe...). It was kind of stiff so I thought I'd pull it apart to grease it or something. Boy...
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    6 jaw chuck options?

    Hi all, any thoughts on reasonable priced options for a 6 jaw chuck? I'm thinking maybe it's about time I get a chuck for my lathe (holbrook minor) that doesn't look like it was fished out of a dumpster. right now I'm looking at aliexpress ones which seem to go from 200$ ish (125mm with one...
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