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Hi Ian, Thanks for the response! wrote: That was the easy part :). Spent most of the evening working at following these directions and I am still not sure I got this right. If you would please look

A milling slide vice for lathe means you are limited by the lathe speed. You will not be able to mill with the smaller bits which will need higher speeds. Gavin

G'day all. Had a few minutes to spare this morning and I had to get out of the house to clear my head. No! not a hangover. I was sick of catching my thumb nail on the cap screws which retain the cross

Well, I just dove in with both feet to get it cleaned up. I decided to go ahead and disassemble the cross slide, compound, and tailstock for the cleaning. Since the parts were away from the lathe, I

Hi Rance, That toolhaus.org link is a beauty. It sure beats scrolling through dozens of pages to check the weak points for high turnover sellers. Puts all non-positive comments together where you can

Hi, If they are the red painted ones with braised carbide tips, they are crap. Other than practice the only reason for putting them in the box was so you had something to do on Christmas afternoon if

Vikki, Now that I've got my lathe to look at I'm thinking of an alternative option for a woodworking tool rest. I might plan on just running the spindle in reverse and doing my woodworking-turning

It's usually fairly easy to find somebody cheaper than Woodcraft, some of their apparent higher price disappears when shipping is calculated. Penn State has a pretty good reputation, the 3 tool set

wrote: use of the from just to offer one more opinion. i mixed up a batch of stp and mobil1 consisting of 1oz. stp to 3oz. mobil1. i was amazed at the results. it makes a fantastic wayoil! i also used

Boy are you right about interesting ideas. His site is loaded with "why didn't I think of that" ideas. And not only that, great photos and short and to the point text. Here's a link straight to his

Okay, it's not a complex deal although it appears to be. First off, find an old dot matrix printer and rob all the rods out of it. Take the larger one that the print carrige rides on and chuck it up.

I've got one of those vertical slides. It's fittted by removing the topslide and fastening it down to the "swivel disk" in the cross-slide. It would have been better if it had T-slots to fasten jobs

No twist in my bed but the headstock was off by 0.015 in 8" when I got it. After aligning using "Rollie's Dad's Method", my DTI (0.0005) doesn't twitch over the same distance. I can turn a 3" length

Have you seen this? http://www.littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=1681&category=1 A friend has one, he is happy doing basic work, but he said it can only handle small cuts or he

If it's all you have on hand, it's better than nothing. I have used it in all my pneumatic tools for thirty five years. Personally, I use a syn 30wt on the lathe and mill cause it's what I have

Mine uses 5/16 according to the owners manual. I have a QCTP so I have 5/16 and 3/8. I would think use the biggest you can.

Hi Mark, Check Frank Ford's site for how he adapted a similar large toolholder to fit his QCTP: http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Machining/Tooling/GiantToolHolder/giantholder.html Frank has lots of

G'day Vikki Your site shows you have a dial indicator. Mount it on the cross slide and extend the tail stock quill out to the limit of its travel and clamp it. Run the dial indicator along the side

Yeah, that 90 degree turn is a bit of a mystery alright. It may not be out of the hands of the home shop machinist to build his/her own tool holders. A short while back there was a discussion about

Thanks to all that responded to this query. OK, I am *totally* intimidated after going through some of the websites suggested :-(. It is going to take a LOT more experience and especially more