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wow thanks for the info!! seems like i made a very good buy! searching in the site of starrett i found d that they have a facility in Scotland, maybe mine it was produce here ??? i have play all day long with my new mic head, but still cant decide what use i will give to him, a carriage stop...

hi to all I just acquired a old piece of starrett micrometer without the frame, or that i believe the thing read 0-50 mm and the labels says: The LS. Starrett Co.Ltd Great Britain No. 63M i was sure that starret was made in USA ??? ??? ??? the shank for the frame are 1/2" i buy...

hi to all these are the last photos of this proyect! i buy a 60x60 cm porcelanate (i dont know how its called in english, is that square stuff for floor) to use it as a economic surface table, its work good, but its flex a little because is very thin, i measure a 0.07 mm of flex range anyway...

hi a tip that's work for the lathe and mill, when you are cutting, and the machine start to vibrate and screaming, then you have to reduce the RPM or the feed, like searching an equilibrium between the 2 speeds, when the cut starts to feel good, then you got it when cutting low carbon steel...

well, almost finished!!! 8) i just finished the remaining pieces of the heigth gauge, then made the scriber out of hss and make a test assembly to see if its works first, the makeout of the L shape piece: i found that put a L shaped piece on the vise for machining is very dificult, i have...

i got the same problem with the same bandsaw, ist designed to clamp lage bars or stock, not small pieces, the moving jaw is a nightmare i found this, its look very usefull, take a look: http://homepage3.nifty.com/amigos/bandsawadaptor/bandsawadaptor-e.htm saludos

I got some advances to show: I finish the top and final piece of the two shaft structure, his funtion is to calibrate de 0 adjustment moving the entire scale when the set screws of the clamps are loose this funtion will replace the need for turn the dial face for calibrate the 0, this way i...

hi to all! seems that the hardware in my lathe is siggly different from the grizzly version, because i can see clear that for cut a 16 tpi the gear configuration uses the 127 and the 120 gears in AD and NV lever configuration... maybe the lead screws have a different pitch achieved anyway to...

ok!!! thanks if helps, the lead screw is a 8 TPI or 3mm pitch i now understand why the bottom gear not have a number, its a arrow! still the numbers in that part are gone, but looking very hard im able to see a 4 against the light i believe that is a 40 gear for cut the 16 tpi, but maybe can...

I must have the same age as them, or maybe less but after seeing this i feel just 1000 more intelligent! ;D from the first day that I have my lathe, I have very careful with what I do, and not just for my fingers, also for taking care of the tooling, they are quite expensive for me, so extra...

look if your tool is sharp, and look the shape too, it has to be larger in the cutting edge and thinier in the rest, this made the tool not to jam when is pluggin into the workpiece saludos

hi to all! just got this little problem, i need to cut a inner thread 3/4" 16 tpi, for a wood lathe im making some kind of live face plate for the tailstock, that has a mt1 morse taper (too small for the size of the piece) and a 3/4" 16 tpi thread in the outside diameter. in the thread chart...

hi to all i just finished my last exam for the university, now im free to finish this proyect. curiosity kill the cat jaj, in my case, i almost kill the caliper, just for curiosity i open the dial to see how works, is very simple, with two gears, one with a spring to eliminate the backlash...

hi, i believe that is posible to do only need some points to take care: first, the construction of the saw, a 14" bandsaw is not the most rigid and heavy machine, will vibrate when starts to cut metal second, a horisontal bandsaw will only cut sheet metal and small diameter stock, i dont...

if your holding a round bar, then i suppose that the surface is rusty and iregular, if even lights cuts dont work i will recomend a sand paper work to clean the surface, with no much streng and a lot of patience you will get a good and almost true surface for the steady rest if the workpiece is...

i have the smaller one of these DRO, just one is work well but i guess is just luck to get a perfect unit or a, lets say, half good one the one i have is a 6", buy from Grizzly, works good, but in the short time i have used (just a couple of hours like max) it turn on alone, and lose the zero...

Today progress: butchering the dial caliper with the dremel jaja the caliper gear system has been covered with masking tape to avoid the metal dust make his way intro de gears and the shaff gear teeth.. Saludos!

thanks for the comments! steamer: i dont understand very well what you might been turning around the caliper, you meant to roate 180 and then use the caliper jaw for the scriber?? any way the screwless vise is great! great tool! I have some advance today to show, not much anyway: Working on...

to continue with the project now is time to make the "clamps" that will fit the dial caliper in place, again scrap stock is used, these pieces are twins, machined together so the caliper get a perfect aligment position: the brass emmm bearings?? i dont know how to call it, are a 10.05 mm...

Hi to all has been a long time for me to post on the forum.. now, with the few basic tools that i have been adquired, im ready to start building my own NOT CHINESE tools, better said, made in chile tools 8) jajajaj i have seen a lot of guys that made its own heigth gauge, so seem to be a...