Recent content by Joe

Not addressing your question but I think you might enjoy and benefit from a few youtube videos on one of those drills by a guy whose channel is "workshop friend"

Very nice indeed.

Age or IQ ?

Well if you're up for that you'll have to give corn schucking a go too. Gearbox set for around 7 tpi, spindle full tilt and you'll clean a cob in no time.

Bought a Colchester Dominion 15 lathe last year. I looked at it in its dark, gloomy and cluttered basement and there was all sorts of "stuff " underneath the lathe including an air compressor cylinder. The wiring was weird, a micro switch under the forward/reverse lever in the neutral position...

Hello David. Joe aka jorogi

If TIG is an option would a 2 piece rod TIGed together work possibly ?

Wow ! What is the function of the horizontal ring gear ?

Nicely done indeed. I'm working on an Edwards too and have pondered on the production of that very part. Very interesting procedure.

Welcome 17 year old kid in Victoria, Australia. Kind regards, 61 year old kid in Victoria, Canada.

Let me guess, you turned the shower off first. John

Yeh, PITA. Used to read the days posts at 19:30 during commercials but now the email comes after bed time so I'm over 24 hours behind when I get to them. Just being whiny here as I am old and grumpy. Easy work around is to put the page on the screeny thing and click on the lightning bolt...

I have not seen the quoted Haxby video, I have watched a few of his and respect his work. That said I have to ask, why ? I am a lucky guy in that my dearly beloved has a B&S 618 surface grinder that she lets me use. It allows me to get very nice finishes, easily achieve tight dimensions, grind...

Modern commercial trucks use very effective air driers and spitter valves, water build up in the tanks is a sign that something isn't working as it should. My truck is 4 years old now, my tanks are and always have been dry. There is just shy of 6000 hours on it and I couldn't guess how many...

The sites drawing shows 4.5x11x1.25, seems a well priced, fun little project. I like old and round (a little like me I guess) but have always cursed the SB cross slide as that is where I always want to set up a mag base. John 🇨🇦