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The engraving was going well until the bit worked loose in the dremel chuck. I had to stone it down and start over. You can see some of the previous markings were too deep to hide...Oh well, it's just a cutter. Rich

I have a little project under way to make/adapt a mechanical counter to my X axis. Part of the job involves making a couple gears to transfer the revolutions to the counter. I've read a lot about gear hobs including the Hobbynut videos. The cutter is an oddball DP because I already had the 2"...

I hope I'm wrong here, but I thought I read that Jerry Howell had passed away. Rich

I don't know what kind of lathe you have, but many people that have the 9x20 Chinese lathe complain about similar problems related to too much flex in the compound mount to the cross slide. The solution in this case involves a modification to the mount that reduces flex. A four bolt plate...

gbritnell There's an example to download at the bottom of the post as a wmf file, and a couple of crappy cell phone pics to help... To make your own from any circle Basically each inch is divided by 10 to yield .100 and each .1 is divided by 4 to yield .025 divisions. Inch marks are 360/10=36°...

About two years ago, I decided to try out a simple (I mean really simple) idea. It required the following items: A dial and pointer Simple Brackets A Roller and a small pulley Some construction Twine/string A plumb-bob THE DIAL My lathe is a HF 9x20 so the readout dial reads from 0 to 10" (0 to...

Codge, Nice job! I guess the world still has a few Master Craftsmen around. Just like the other comments you've received, I'm learning new things with every post you make. Thanks, Rich