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sansbury-- I anodize at home occasionally with good results. The process is a little more involved than simple plating, but certainly doable by...

Hey Steve. Im in Ventura County. Next to Thousand Oaks. Why do I know yer name? Are you on other forums? Just looks familiar... If yer ever up the...

Award winning work, it was! http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Carlstedt.htm

Well, converting wouldn't be a problem....except it wouldn't run. CO2 is carbon dioxide, and even though it has two oxygen atoms and one atom of...

Yes and we have higher litigation costs and Doctors order many more expensive tests due to defensive medicine.Lawyers have to eat too.:p We also...

The gentleman on the picture used to be a machinist. One day he forgot to take off a glove from his left hand... Thanks God he worked on a Chinese...

I know you're not looking for an off-topic response that may cost hundreds or thousands of $$, but in every house I've owned (too many!) that had...

OK, I will flame this one on one time..... You have recieved a lot of good information which you obviously did not want to hear. Now to answer...

The code tells you what to do (i.e., connections must be in a box, which must be accessible), but does not spell out why. There actually are reasons,...

80 to 90 percent of the effect of a "sealed" cover like that can be had by covering about 6 inches of the leadscrew to the left of the carriage,...

No, its a DPST. Its also not a switch, its a safty disconnect and is not designed to be used daily. You open that box and pull out a huge plug to...

The fine swarf? I don't think it can get in, and it mounts without taking the carriage off.

Well, so far it seems like the only thing I can do without raising a host of uncomfortable questions is polishing. The chemistry with plating scares...

Yes, if I use only sockets.

At this point it probably doesn't matter but, wouldn't it have to be a double pole double throw (dpdt) switch? Steve

Finally got around to measuring fitting. Its got a 3/4 x16 thread so its a 1/2" SAE 45 flare. Everyone was correct. Went south today and fought the...

Retractable spring leadscrew cover brought up a good few more photos on a gsearch, I have a little Chester machine with same fitted, the drawback is...

Aluminum is easy to plate. You just need to zincate it first. This is a 3-10 second dip depending on the alloy. The electroless nickel needs a lot of...

My question would be how hard is it to take them off and clean the fines out of the leadscrew?

thank you - they call them ''tensaguards', and are expensive: http://www.boxford-software.com/spares/X10Lead.html also goes by 'tensator' sometimes,...

And that store would be spiroflex: http://www.spiroflex.com/pdfs/Ld_scr_grds_A_B_eng.pdf Or here, with prices, where they call them Telescoping...

SPDT is an alternative. Most suggestions are about routing a new line - that means breaking walls.

Exactly.... glad you agree with me on what you really meant. 1) You will only accept ways to splice the wire. 2) you wouldn't tell us that...

Get them at the telescopic lead screw store:D. Contact the manufacturer of the lathe and see if they have them in stock, don't You have the parts...

The thread is "splice 220V", not "smash walls, route new line, 220V"

You don't have to "bust up" the wall. If you really have to, cut a 6" x 6" square into the middle of each stud cavity. Drill the holes into the...

sorry to hear about everyone's medical problems, they can't be any fun at all. As for the health care/ insurance debate and so on, at the end of...

I have some crazy aluminum solder and had the same experience, except that it didn't quite ruin the parts. But it did somewhat inadvertently end up...

telescopic lead screw cover?