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I chekt and the only one I found was 5000USD. Absurd.

YES! It's a terrible waste of space especially in a tiny shop like mine. It will help clean up the MESS.

I could use one of those.

I managed to get a very good Asian lathe from Grizzly, which is right in the Soviet of Washington. Grizzly has stringent requirements and apparently inspects each machine while in Asia. I do have small complaints about the machine: 1) the change gear cover has to be removed, that is, it...

I had a 1918 model. It was beat to hell but I did a lot of work with it. Had to have the split nut replaced. Phoned SB and they still had the records of whom bought the lathe from them. Unfortunately, no parts for it (surprize, surprize).

Anybody who might be within driving distance of Detroit, might be interested in this bearing auction...

Well, yes, now that you mention it, IQ.

That's right, only it's not 5 years, it's 3 years. A little history on GM. In 1995 the CEO of General MOtors decided to spend 45B$ (in 1995 dollars) to robotize the company. It failed--too many robots in too short a period. I suppose the workers training the robots sabotaged it as much as...

I have to say that reading is most important, however, if you don't practice what you read, it is almost worthless. And easily forgotten. You must practice what you read. So that brings us to what equipment do you have? And of course where do you live? I might need to come over and borrow...

If you could photograph this from a different angle, the angle where the hole is that you cut, it might give a better idea. You say this is the water jacket? It looks like a bolt hole but I cannot tell for sure. As long as it is NOT the cylinder, then JB weld is probably the best solution...

I bot Alibre a couple years ago. I went from ACAD 2000i Architectural, which does mechanical just fine, to Alibre. At first I was confused--it seemed difficult, only because I had used ACAD for about 25 years. My biggest problem, now seeming trivial, was that to start a drawing one has to...

Of course that is true. However, if you don't have a 4 jaw . . . it's quite useful. And . . . I certainly wouldn't buy one if I had the materials and the lathe nose was easy to build for.

It's quite possible to make your own faceplate. A piece of iron or steel. What type of lathe nose do you have? The nose determines the ease of making a faceplate.

whoops -- double posted, what dummy

Personally, I prefer Know-it-alls, so that I can feel humble in their presence.

Oh. I have had the same problem--it often turns out that I have a dimension that needs to be removed which stops the dimension you need from being realized. Of course that is called "over dimensioning". The machine will not allolw that

Do you have a face plate? It shouldn't be too hard to set up with a faceplate. Before the development of chucks, machining was exclusively between centers and on faceplates. (Me thimpfks.) I have a four jaw but I am always keeping an eye out for another, for smaller or larger sizes and so...

Ha haa haawww. You guys are too funni. A 2D sketch is faster than CAD? Well maybe, if you are using some 2D sketchingh system from the last millenium but if you are doing 3D, the drawing is actually MUCH faster. 3D is faster and EASIER than 2D, but it may take a bit of learning the system...

Well, you have to pity the poor car companies. If they made a good product, we would only need a new car every 25 years. They would go out of business.

Didn't Joe Pi do a vid on this?