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I roughed up the column with coarse paper for a little more bite. I also wipe off oil or grease from the column, not that that does much as there is oil soaked into the head casting as well, but it seems to help a little. As you have already figured out, more wrench applied to the bolts and...

They don't, assuming by accuracy you mean location. I've had one since around 1996. Using extended center drills, screw machine drills, and reamers with overlong (for my needs) shanks cut off combined with the 5 inch or so quill travel avoids the majority of height changes. You may still have...

I bought a Glacern milling vise quite a few years ago. Just their basic vise, not a specialty CNC certified super deluxe, the one that looks like a nicely done run of the mill 4 inch one. It has been excellent, although the prices like all the others have gone up a lot. I'm not sure that I...

I would go to the local hardware store and check through their small metric screw assortments. The two hardware stores in our small town have been able to provide the majority of my weird hardware needs, they even have the very fine thread hardened gun screws. Not always in the head style you...

The methods shown in his videos were completely new to me when I first saw them. Not being a motor cycle guy I knew zero about pressed crankshafts, quite an eye opener. Enjoyable videos as well, quite a lot going on. Cheers, Stan

I've seen the toothbrush mentioned in a few places, it's something I really have to go play around with, just don't have one available and IIRC only a few models adapt to the job well.

Greetings again fellow plaster quirters! This video might be interesting as this is migrating towards a print finishing thread. Don't let the guy throw you, he's actually one of the few youtubers who works hard at understanding exactly how all the slicer and material combos work and focuses on...

Sadly they don't. 0.05 layer heights in 4K, some or all of the 8K are 0.028 to around 0.034mm. So the top of a bald cartoon characters head still is a topo map, just a quite fine one. Filler and sanding or at least sanding still required. In some cases it doesn't matter, the model is going...

Just a follow on to an earlier post mentioning nozzle size and layer heights. It's an area with some misconceptions and things that are not immediately obvious until someone tells you about them. Then you say Duh, who didn't know that, it's obvious! I don't use a 0.6mm nozzle often, my focus...

As dumb as it sounds, I've had pretty good results laying the connected hose on a table top with the vac running and drumming along the length with a pair of one inch or so dowels. Not perfect, but it seems to get the crud the break up a bit and the airflow can get under the hunks of crud and...

I'm such a wimp, I would have settled for printing a calibration cube first... I like the dog. Maybe seal it with a polyurethane coating then spray paint with gold paint. Rig a strong magnetic base up and plop it on as a hood ornament. All the Mack truck wranglers will think you are mighty...

The important thing is to get a print going before the Haribo container is empty. Not always easy, I'm a fool for the things! Cheers, Stan

Sewing needles are quite inexpensive at least in the US. The goal is to have three "wires" that fit well in the thread and are of a known single diameter. Commercial thread wires are not the only way to do good three wire measurement. Another option is a cheap digital microscope with...

The flywheel size can be a limiting factor for many home shop folks. I'd suggest casting a suspicious eye at the rotary table and milling machine when encountering something just a bit too large for the lathe available. With a tooling plate on a moderate size rotary table I've cleaned up the...

Oh My, Envy may be an ugly trait, but I must say I do have a twitch of it going on. It appears to be a really nice machine with a focus on print quality, I hope you get a lot of pleasure from it! There is a heck of a step up in quality when you go from lower end stuff up into the Vornon and...

It usually got a confused look at first, but I used to tell folks new to real (as opposed to college exercises) programming: Never test for a condition you don't know how to handle, never fail to test for a condition you must handle. Makes you think a lot deeper about what's going one. Saw...

I think 5-40 is one of those weird screw sizes that involves a trade off to replace with metric. A standard M3 - 0.5 screw will have the correct diameter but will also have notably finer threads which may be an issue in aluminum. An M4 screw is quite a bit larger than a 5-40 screw in diameter...

I think third angle projection is the norm in the US and Asia while first angle is the norm in the EU. Or at least was back when Howell was drawing things up in Autocad. The US convention was or is (I'm long out of any business that uses technical drawings) to only include drawings with...

Hi Jared, Darn glad someone reputable like you has Georges collection, he was a true gentleman every time I spoke with him at Cabin Fever over the years. Quite a few years ago, there were seminars / talks at Cabin Fever, something that has gone by the by. Any chance you might do a youtube...

Rather than speculate, here's the info on stellite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellite I know it was one of the earliest very high temp operating cobalt materials for cutting tools, but wasn't aware of the crazy high amounts of chromium and tungsten. There's a video out there of a huge...