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[754]

Just a thought, what if you get 12 foot length if 2 different alloys , or get like 6 or 8 ft ones cut at a Metal Supermarket, then you can have 3 or 4...

[754]

Don't compare a 100 dollar XY table to what that jig borer has.. it's more like a 500 XY table..
try milling with the 100 dollar one......

[754]

Here is an overload story.
We were working in the bush logging, but close to town, private timber on a ranch that straddled the highway. The owners...

[754]

Sounds like it's time for a shop built scale project for the OP.
Willy may have some info on logging truck bunk scales... maybe they are easy to...

[754]

1045 shafting...

[754]

Rake helps clear chips.. if you ever measured a square piece across corners , and bored a sleeve , slit it, used in a 3 jaw..... it is a wonderfull thing....

[754]

I see no rake on the parting tool ?
For screws.....if you get key stock or square stock, turn a round sleeve to fit over it and slit sleeve.....

[754]

Try a scrapyard..

[754]

It came out good. . Nice.. I would have probably just used Devcon or JB Weld..

[754]

Let's say for a moment they did publish the weights.. it immediately changes as folks add things, then will they get re weighed and change their figures...

[754]

You guys really thank that 2hp , or less, there is any reason for movement ? I and a few others do not.. inventing problems.....

[754]

Here is a few tests I made.
76 Ford 150, Herbert lathe and barfeed, 2500 lbs or so.. headstock to front of box.. drove - 375 miles like that...

[754]

Are you saying an inverted V is what remains after cutting ? A flycutter will do that.....

[754]

How many screws ? You could have machined 6 or 10 already..

[754]

2 things.....I think brass would be poor choice for a prop shaft , probably bronze. I also think that any easy machining you anticipated will not be...

[754]

The saddle is the gauging fixture.

[754]

All those taken off mill parts will go downhill... into the basement , just dont smash them up....
and hopefully you never move it again.....

[754]

I think it's a good starter lathe, better th a some import stuff.
they have one feature usually that I think every hobby size lathe needs., index...

[754]

Depends where you live, meaning how often they show up.
around here that he gone by morning....heck the flippers would buy it.
fwwiw.....

[754]

Jeez man clamp in a vise or beadbreaker, and start working it with a tire iron.. yes a tire iron, .. rather than a screwdriver.. and try working it o...