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Working on my South Bend 9C

140mower said:
Looks like you're heading in the direction. The elbow grease seems to have been worth the effort.
Heading back home on the last boat tonight, so I guess I am heading in the right direction too, hopefully I'll get to try out the milling attachment fairly soon.... 😉
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I am finally feeling there might be some light at the end of this rusty tunnel...

I did end up carrying over a few parts from the original assembly (and there may be others I swap about). Tailstock all TBD although I should look into the materials required for the extension mod (I know it requires cutting acme threads).
 
First piece in progress with the new headstock. Alignment seems good, but the section will be the piece that really points out any issues. Hopefully try that this evening...
 

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Golem Pens said:
Once I sell a few pens again I can buy new tools! Self sustaining hobby right?
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There’s a couple threaded adaptors that I make for hydraulic punches that basically pays for all the other stuff I do.

My “interest” with my lathe is boom-sticks, fixing, building, modifying, accurising, etc, but I kind of suck at it yet because I’m new at it.

But what pays the most is hydraulic punch adaptors and accessories…..

I can make an internal/external threaded hydraulic adaptor in a single set up in a 3 jaw, out of scrap oilfield sucker rod, and sell it for like 150$…..

Or a certain size stud out of sucker rod for 50…..

All that to say keep your eyes open for other opportunities that can be made on a lathe related to or similar to your pens, I stumbled upon that hydraulic adaptor thing and it’s more lucrative then what I want to do….

I mean I still technically have spent more then I’ve made but it certainly doesn’t hurt to make a few extra bucks here and there to pay for the tools and machines.

I guess it can be an almost self sustaining hobby.
 
BaitMaster said:
My “interest” with my lathe is boom-sticks, fixing, building, modifying, accurising, etc, but I kind of suck at it yet because I’m new at it.
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Really ?
Boom sticks ?
One hundred foot long straight logs with a hole augered through each end to accept the passage of a boom chain, several necklaced together to form a log boom to haul several thousand saw logs down coast to the sawmill.
And those are of interest east of Lethbridge ? Really ?
🙄
 
jorogi said:
Really ?
Boom sticks ?
One hundred foot long straight logs with a hole augered through each end to accept the passage of a boom chain, several necklaced together to form a log boom to haul several thousand saw logs down coast to the sawmill.
And those are of interest east of Lethbridge ? Really ?
🙄
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The logging industry is great everywhere till you run out of trees friend.

That’s why it’s a hobby. Not commercially viable when all you have around is sage brush and dust
 
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