@8ob delapena is what I’m familiar, along with abrahone engineering which is another quality manufacturer.
@jmp49 some good advice. I cut my teeth honing steam turbine coupling bolt holes on various plants from the 60’s / 70’s to within a tenth of a thou. It was done free hand with a “gut...
The more expensive homes pictured are of an adjustable type and far superior to the sprung three leg and bog brush types. As said above they will produce a true round bore.
There are many different compounds of abrasive though, so the correct type should be selected for the material you are...
Think you’ll need a rotary phase converter to run a three phase welder. And a big one at that. Which are neither cheap to buy, cheap to run or small in size. If you’ve got other three phase gear to run then that is a justification but just to run a welder probably isn’t argument enough.
There...
Luck of the draw mainly these days, all designed to fail after a predetermined amount of time.
Best advice is buy cheap, buy twice. Or buy expensive and buy twice slightly less often…
Maybe try and price up a repair on the old one first though…
Failing that, there is very easy access to the bottom of the bearing by removing three screws from the cover retaining it.
If this is a 2g or a 2gs the bearing (a very expensive RHP ldjt25 double row angular contact bearing available new old stock) doesn’t have access to the oil bath in the...
I find it easy to visualise 2 thou, but 0.05mm is more difficult for some reason so I’ll measure something in mm, say it wants 0.25mm off its length I can easily see it as 10 thou.
Everything I started working with was in inches (kit from the 60’s and 70’s) but modern kit is in mm. A metric...
Trefolex spreads easier on toast, but hasn’t quite got the zing that rtd has once it’s melted in :laughing:
Rtd is a bit more resistant to disappearing than trefolex when things get warm but both are very good and far superior to things like wd-40 and other oils not designed for cutting and...
I actually did some good work with a second hand Clarke 160en. Good up to 4mm with 6 settings and a half decent cheap starter. Think I gave £150 for it? Later selling it for what I paid although it was great for small repairs on the car as it’s small enough to drag out and plug into an extension...
I think that’s the same material I used. At least you have a drawing :laughing:
100mm x 8mm would have been better, the bottom section on mine was a little baggy as I didn’t have as much material as I’d like, so I welded clamping screws on the outside so when the height is selected they can be...
good luck with the build. I have an a frame of very similar design. Very useful bit of kit but a right pain to use sometimes and almost impossible to adjust the height on your own because of the weight.
Mine is designed to come completely apart so the individual pieces can be stored when not in...
Nice work :thumbup:
Same job I did with an Elliott table earlier this month!
Very thankful for the gap bed in the woodhouse & Mitchell but it lacks the rigidity your Holbrook certainly has!!!
As the old saying goes, you can machine small parts in a big lathe but can’t machine big parts in...
I’ve actually had it on this morning so can give you an accurate figure. 3kw vented dryer and it heats continuously so over an hour it’s 75p on our rate, but it’s normally on more than an hour to dry an average wash so it’s £1 a dry.
Can I have some of your electricity if you only pay 5p a...
I clamped my tailstock down and ran the reamer in the chuck. I spend a lot of time aligning it as central as possible but was unable to get it better than a thou or so. It was far from ideal but the only way I could do it. I do plan on making another tailstock barrel at some point with a larger...
Another option would be to remachine it with a carbide boring bar. Easy enough to set up the compound to cut a mt2.
I had the same issue with mine but the taper in mine was absolutely horrid from 70 years of abuse prior to me. I did clean mine out with a reamer and it made a world of...
A tumble dryer uses £1 an hour give or take, or ours does anyway. Two or three washes and dries will add up to an extra 6 quid easily, or more if it’s towels as they take a bit longer to dry…
As said, welding and big motor use is an expensive game, I can easily spend £1 an hour in the garage...
That sounds expensive even for the first bottle. It pays to shop around, there’s a big difference locally to me for sgs stockists, like 25% or more…
Motor factors were by far the most expensive, an agricultural suppliers was miles cheaper
No 3 is a carbide end mill, although it looks like it’s been through the wars…
Not a cheap thing by the looks of it either!
Not sure what your wanting to hold in your lathe chuck though…
A 10’ x 1/2” cut is going to be a big guillotine which also takes up a good deal of space. A problem you’ll encounter is (not so much for the plate) but the cut pieces that fall away will all be curved. Short pieces aren’t anywhere near as bad but the edge of a full sheet will be curved and...
Can you mount a plate and use that to stick the mag base to? Very frequently (when I used to do this kind of work) it was possible to bolt a plate to the adjacent hole then stick the drill to that.