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  1. JohnW

    My 12 x 36 Lathe is for Sale

    I've been working on rebuilding a lathe for the last couple of years, and I have finally finished it. I've posted a lot of my progress on a thread here, but I need to update it with some of the latest progress. It is now time to find a good home for my old machine. It is about 10 years old (I...
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    VFD Discussion

    Over on another thread Tom Kitta said: I thought I'd reply in a separate thread since I can see this discussion going off in its own direction. I have not yet tried my VFD, although the person I got it from (my cousin) tested it and it apparently works. To answer some of the above questions...
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    My "New" Lathe

    I posted the beginning of this story a couple of weeks, ago, but the posting disappeared, so I'll try it again. The project started a few months ago, so I'll start with a few postings of history before I get into more recent work I've been doing. I have been taking a bunch of pictures along the...
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    John

    Hello Everybody. I'm a retired IT guy (mainly I did software development, but I also designed, managed and supported networks and datacenters). I started doing that with punched cards on IBM mainframes and just moved along as the technology changed. Metalworking has always been a hobby, but I...
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