GadgetBuilder
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I've had good luck with CTC collets, see Workholding on their site: http://www.ctctools.biz/servlet/StoreFront Shipping from China takes about 10...

Plans for a round toolpost which might be the appropriate size or could be scaled: http://www.homemetalshopclub.org/projects/toolpost/toolpost.html...

I've used knurling to increase the diameter of small shafts in clocks so the wheels press onto the shaft nicely and can be positioned along the shaft...

Plugging away at a variation of Tom Partington's cut knurler, plans from PM. It's half done now but the evening's still young... Uploaded...

You might check the sites that don't work with FF to see if they're compliant with the version of HTML they claim to be. FF has an extension that...

Do the arms which hold the sine bar flex vertically as you cut? This can cause some difference between forward and back cuts, although I'd expect 8...

I added a simple auto-stop to my 7x12, see: http://www.gadgetbuilder.com/ThreadingTools.html#AutoStop As others noted, this type of stop isn't...

I have an ancient 119 piece set of Harbor Freight drills that work reasonably well, especially after they're resharpened. When I find USA drills at...

There's a picture of a bottoming lap on my site if you scroll down here: http://www.gadgetbuilder.com/Lapping.html Laps need to be shorter than...

Have you considered making a bottoming lap and lapping the hole to size? Seems it would address several issues: holes may not be as round as we...

At one time Harprit Sandhu sold castings for this vise but they're no longer shown on his site: http://www.harpritsan.com/index.html You might...

I copied Martin Cleeve's jig: http://www.gadgetbuilder.com/ThreadingTools.html It also sharpens some internal threading tools by putting the...