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    Sticky: Smaller Brass Dovetail Insert : Why ?

    G'day Jackaroo,

    Think I misunderstood something, see last photo, why do you need a female dovetail slot with a much smaller brass male dovetail running up the centre of it ?

    Bill
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    Sticky: Ball turner from rotary table

    Saw a clever trick on the homemadetools forum a while back. Might be handy for someone.

    A ball turner for lathe made by mounting the rotary table from the mill on the cross slide of the lathe....
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    Variation in tapers

    Hey BaronJ,

    Nice, well done and thanks for the posts.

    Am curious - what sort of variation do you see on your gauge when you compare an MT2 to an MT3 ?

    MT taper table from this link
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    Hey BaronJ, Good idea re using the broken tap...

    Hey BaronJ,

    Good idea re using the broken tap and cutting a thread for it to fasten into.

    I have got some old broken taps to do this with.

    Bill
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    [QUOTE=azzrock;1962284]hi frank . Thanks and Yes...

    [QUOTE=azzrock;1962284]hi frank . Thanks and Yes you got it. I was thinking about cutting a 1.5mm thread. I dont have the 127 tooth change gear. Ill have a play around with the gears i have all ready...
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    Thanks for your help. I found this LINK...

    Thanks for your help.

    I found this LINK for Starret Tool Oil which is expensive in Aus compared to USA

    and there seems to be a lot of info about clock oil HERE quite interesting "Properly...
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    What is tool oil & clock oil please ?

    Snipped from another thread



    I googled Tool Oil and got a heap of links to oil for air tools - is that what is meant above ?

    I remember when I bought some micrometers from Ueee approx 6...
  8. what to do with old drill.

    Perhaps something like this ? Don't know what surface speed is required, but can be controlled to some extent by disc diameter. Drill wouldnt be running for long.
    ...
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    Shed organisation

    Hey RacingTadpole,

    Great idea for a thread, thankyou. Am gonna copy your clamp rack.

    My wife encouraged me to tidy my shed. Am 1/2 way there. Got some sets of drawers from officeworks at...
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    Here are a couple of close ups of the thing Kryn...

    Here are a couple of close ups of the thing Kryn is talking about at the bottom RH side of his photo.
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    63 teeth the current minimum. Depending upon...

    63 teeth the current minimum.

    Depending upon what other spur gears you have and what ratios are in your gearbox you might be able to lower that a bit further

    Have seen people discussing 21 ,...
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    A 47/37 pair will give you a ratio of 1.270270...

    A 47/37 pair will give you a ratio of 1.270270 and that's a lot less teeth to cut for a tiny difference in ratio. There are calculators online like this one that will print out prime number templates...
  13. Welcome to the forum. Lots of us have Hercus 9"....

    Welcome to the forum. Lots of us have Hercus 9". (including me)

    Am sure somebody from ACT or nearby will be along shortly.

    There is a special Hercus subforum - worth a look around.

    What...
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    Hey John, This chap didn't have a groove seems...

    Hey John,

    This chap didn't have a groove seems like he cut straight to calculated depth. He is only cutting brass probably a bit easier to cut than steel ? Several other videos on youtube, worth...
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    Another sneaky way to make partial worm gear

    See attached file. Shows an interesting variation on the "use a tap to make a worm gear" idea. Possible to cut the curved recess by using a milling machine or a form tool on lathe..
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    Sticky: How To Square DIY Angle Plate ?

    Hey Steve,

    When making a big angle plate like that whats the strategy for ensuring the two critical faces are at 90 degrees ?

    Is it possible to pretend that its a rectangular block and square...
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    Cutting Oils

    I've had the impression for a while now that the subject of cutting oil for us hobbyists is a bit like oils for the lathes ways.

    ie. Any oil is better than no oil. I've used cheap olive oil from...
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    A chinese Poem

    The rusty screw,
    never using a wrench,
    hard twist,
    antitwisting screw slide
    the six edges and corners to twist off the screw or bad twist wrench.
    At this time, the handle
    gently shaking...
  19. G'day Ben, Thanks for posting the video. ...

    G'day Ben,

    Thanks for posting the video.

    That chap did it in 75 minutes, mine is taking far far longer, ie several hours so far. Same situation steel tap in Aluminium.

    I stopped and did some...
  20. G'day Aaron., Owsitgoin ? Busted tap in...

    G'day Aaron.,

    Owsitgoin ?

    Busted tap in Aluminium. Fizzing away quite nicely now, goes much faster if heated slightly, All the write ups on the internet seem to be true so far. Approx 120...
  21. Finally Found a Source of Alum for Broken Tap in Aluminium

    Alum : Pottassium ALuminium Sulphate but formula can vary, some people use it to extract broken taps from non ferrous metals - well documented in lots of places on internet see link "Alum broken tap"...
  22. Little Hoggers = Face Mills or end mills ?

    How do you use these things - they look more like what I have been calling face mills rather than end mills.

    Do you use them just like an ordinary end mill ? They are advertised as Indexable End...
  23. Fine Twizzle mechanism

    Had another go at fixing the gripping mechanism on the other two mics. Persuaded the end off the shaft to have a look.

    See photos - its clever, but strangely unsatisfying to use - its just a...
  24. Cleaning and Old Moore & Wright Micrometer

    I was lucky to be first on site when RacingTadpole gave away 3 micrometers recently. Hey RacingTadpole many thanks. Had a great time fiddling with these.

    Got bored tidying shed, its been 5 days in...
  25. Yes please I would like them and I will send a PM...

    Yes please I would like them and I will send a PM right now

    Bill
  26. websites for scanned Joe Romig articles from very old magazines

    If you enjoy looking through old books and magazines then this list of articles written by Joe Romig approx 100 years ago might be fun to browse through ..... I was thoroughly entranced when I first...
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    Indexes for magazines

    Kryn has mentioned before when there is an index in the hard copy magazines.

    There are various online databases and indexes that cover ME and MEW one list is available here

    I picked up a few...
  28. planer marks and job done

    ...... and these would be the planer marks ? .....see attached ......they are obvious right on the ends of the table and less obvious but still there along the length of the table. Mill is RF30...
  29. Thanks for all the responses, Looks like it...

    Thanks for all the responses,

    Looks like it was a fairly optimistic comment that I heard on the news.

    Every now and then I bump into the idea that one day we might all be living an easy...
  30. Return of manufacturing industries to countries like Australia ?

    A comment on the ABC news this morning regarding prospects of manufacturing industries returning to countries like Australia.

    The logic went something like this, am unable to remember exact words...
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    Could the remnants be transformed into a die...

    Could the remnants be transformed into a die filer ? You already have the slow reciprocal motion. I haven't got much of a clue really, the idea of transforming it into something else seemed...
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    Am intrigued ............ What will it become...

    Am intrigued ............

    What will it become ?

    Bill
  33. Myford rear mounted accessory table

    Thanks Michael,

    Have been pondering your reply for a while now.

    The way I see it ........ if I can get some benefit by managing to use the relatively underutilised and therefore unworn parts of...
  34. Cleaning Cast iron surfaces : Mill Table & Lathe Ways

    It seems to me that my mill table and lathe ways are always grungy gray compared to the almost silvery shiny surfaces I see on forum photos.

    Scrubbing with a kerosene soaked rag is all I have...
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    Speed Reduction Workaround

    Whether you go for bandsaw or hacksaw at some point speed reduction will raise its head.

    See attached photo for what I thought was a clever workaround using your existing lathe speeds, I pinched...
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    Hacksaw Plans

    I've accumulated a few plans from trawling around with google.

    You have probably already found these but just in case .....

    Myfordboy has plans, cannot remember if free or small price to pay,...
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    Harold Hall Idea - might help you

    In a Workshop Practice Milling book Harold Hall suggested the following - its not an exact quote just what I remember as being the guts of his idea.

    "It can be difficult to bore a long true...
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    Try this

    Hey Wheelinround,

    Get a current Groupon voucher for $30 for Magzter and you get 12 months access to electronic copies of ME and MEW and approx 3000 other magazines including various computer,...
  39. Vibrating Engraving Tools ?

    That's amazing.

    Is the vibrating engraving tool likely to be something like this or something far more elaborate and expensive ?

    What do you chaps use to do things like that ?

    Whooops EDIT...
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    France 1785 : Hardening Pistol Parts

    From The book called "Exactly" by Simon Winchester, 2018, ISBN 9780008241773, in a section discussing standardising pistol parts in France in 1785 so that spare parts were readily available and...
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    Would it be possible to mount a dremel grinding...

    Would it be possible to mount a dremel grinding point or wrap some emery paper around a rod in the lathe chuck and with the workpece mounted on an angle plate slowly wind the workpiece past the tool...
  42. Chatter with form tool

    In one of his books L H Sparey gave the tip that running a form tool on a rear mounted toolpost can significantly decrease chatter, and that he ran 1" radius form tools on a little myford lathe with...
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    Probably, After you have made a few posts and...

    Probably, After you have made a few posts and they have identified that you are not a spammer I think it gets a bit easier to send in pictures and make posts.
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    G'day Nigel, Welcome to forum. Lots of Hercus...

    G'day Nigel,

    Welcome to forum. Lots of Hercus machines here, there is a subforum for Hercus and be ready for the requests to send in some photos showing progress from pile of parts to fully...
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    Hey Bob, My favourite tipple very similar, ...

    Hey Bob,

    My favourite tipple very similar, only the added liquor is anise (sweet not dry) somehow the coffee and aniseed tastes go well together.

    Bill
  46. Hdmi from TV to laptop vs firestick chromecast roku etc.

    I can connect a tv to an old laptop with an HDMI cable and then anything that appears on the laptop screen appears on the tv screen. So any netflix, stan, amazon prime etc etc etc content that you...
  47. Further to Graham's post. I've read about...

    Further to Graham's post.

    I've read about people using toothpaste to polish the knifeblade. Google finds lots of examples.

    Bill
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    Who pays ?

    explained here https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-06-26/does-the-repair-shop-actually-exist/

    Although it might be expensive for you and I to pay for the time of some of these skilled people,...
  49. Thanks for all the suggestions. Very useful. ...

    Thanks for all the suggestions. Very useful.

    Yes Graham, well done, that is the other jig that I have bumped into on the internet. That looks like a great video to help make a jig. Didn't really...
  50. Thanks for the tips and photos above, Main...

    Thanks for the tips and photos above,

    Main purpose of question was to find out if ordinary folk use those jigs or is it mainly knifemakers ( cutlers ?)

    I have only ever used hand stones and...
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