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Hi Ron, As I think I mentioned in one of my emails, Arc Euro Trade stocks the whole Workshop Practice series, at about half the price of Amazon in the US. Arc Euro's shipping charges are reasonable,

The last date to order from Lindsay is February 28th. Here's my post on the subject from last month. Mike Taglieri miket_nyc@...

Thanks Roy, I was thinking of putting off my purchase for now, maybe I should re-think it. They have a few books of interest, I hope that someone will continue to offer them at a reasonable price.

Lindsay books has a lot of useful shop stuff. I think they're scheduled to shut down sometime in the not too distant future. http://www.lindsaybks.com/prod/index.html There are some public domain

It is very easy to make a simple adjustable broach, see: http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com/small-hole-slotting-tool.html Mike

Standards for threaded pipe exist up to 24 inches. The largest I've seen is around 12 inches but 6-8 isn't uncommon. I have no idea how they applied the torque to make these up. Of course, modern

Thanks, I could do a web search, but if you have it handy, where could I find the "Workshop Practices" series of books. Internet stuff is great, but I get neck and back problems if I'm in front of the

A list of almost all of Tubal Cain's videos is here: ? http://www.hobby-machinist.com/showthread.php/7997-Updated-List-of-Tubalcain-s-(Mr-Pete-s)-Videos

Tubal cain also has quite a few videos on youtube, covering mostly lathe work but I also think he does some milling videos too... Actually there are quite a few people posting videos on youtube

Buying is often cheaper than making, but it's good to know how to make. Look up the thread specs of the NPT. Set your lathe and cut that thread on the, but straight rather than tapered. Now use a

The famous Model T Ford had 1/2" pipe threaded sparkplugs. The plumber's diestock I have has 2' long handles on it, and is not at al hard to turn. Mert

Actually, you can, somewhat. I think in Lathe Handbook #1 (one of the old-time machinist lathe-tips books I got from Lindsay Publications), someone with a similar problem cut taper threads by cutting

Old flywheel style single cylinder gasoline farm engines mostly used 1/2" pipe threaded spark plugs. (Made after the low tention spark-points in the cylinder chamber, & before the high speed air

Thanks Roy, and they're free too :-) I'll take advantage of these. Ron

MIT has produced a pretty good set of videos to help prevent rust damage (from student blood) to their shop machines: http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/142-machine-shop-1 Roy

With an OD of 5/16" it's 1/16" NPT. Both 1/16" & 1/8" NPT are 27 tpi. Straight pipe threads are used for electrical stuff; conduit fittings are threaded NPS as are lamp parts. Roy

I'm new and here is my brief intro. My name is Ron, I'm and amateur radio operator (VE8RT) in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. Its been a few decades since I had a machine shop class in high school, but my

It was either last week's cold in the nose or hitting the adjacent key, Malcolm. Very versatile; I hadn't thought of keyways in tapers. Andy To: 7x12minilathe@... From:

WAM wrote......Ok... my earlier link had the same info as this http://www.rfstaples.ca/docs/library/Tap%20Drill%20Chart.pdf Second page show 1/2 - 28......... And this gives quite a few different

So does this: http://schoepp.hylands.net/tapdrill.html Ellis Cory wrote: