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Quote "if you do some cleanup & check the thing out it's possible with a replacement head you could have a very usable mill for a couple grand. " Yes, you can buy replacement heads for Bridgeport mills {not made by them} for about $2500.00 and that table does not look too bad..

Thanks, we had a smaller one at work {a large corporation} to make signs and employee name tags. I had the opportunity to use it some..

I like your big hunk of steel for a anvil, what brand of milling machine is that in the back ground.?

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After seeing your shaper restoring post , it makes me want to get my old shaper out and clean it up. But its too cold here now. Good luck with yours. packrat

I think I have one of the South Bend HOW TO RUN A SHAPER books not a reprint..

When I bought my SB heavy 10 with cabinet full of tooling the seller was goin to lift it on my truck with a chain hocked on the cross slide & compound, he would have done some real damage..

Thanks Henry K, that is a good article on the shaper, love the old ads and cars too. packrat

Sent you a PM about shaper

Quote "My personal opinion is that you would have to have a *really* accepting spouse to get agreement on moving a Super 11 into the house! My wife is pretty generous with my odd requests, but I know her limits. I'd *never* get that guy inside." Yes I think your right about getting the lathe in...

There was a Maximat 11 lathe here in the states locally for sale about 50 miles from me {no mill}, I rushed to phone but it was sold very fast. I did find a Myford ML7 later. I was looking for a small lathe I could use in the house, the South Bend 13 is in the unheated garage.

Quote "Now that the engine is finished I don't have any means to run it " If you can get access to a co2 cylinder and a regulator you can run the engine, I got my regulator from the Coke man free and used a little co2 from work just to test a engine or two..

Even with full size boilers we have trouble with sight glass and washers, the boiler water eats the glass at the bottom of the sight glass and needs to be replaced from time to time, I have seen the high presser glass fail {blow} also. Return water {make up water] will also eat steam traps and...

Quote "I believe there is a mistake in the chart above. The U.S. equivalent to 8BA should be 2-56. Very handy chart. Thanks packrat. Bob" Yes I think your right, Thank you

Yes that was a kick in the nuts, I hope you wind up with it in the long run.

Lots of YouTube video on machining, My first engine we did not have YouTube, I just went by the plans and had to figger out stuff. I ran on to this on you tube.

I got this one a few years back, works good with small taps.

Can you find US size taps and dies in South Africa ? If you want to change BA threads to U.S sizes here is a size caparison chart, if you wanted to use U.S Taps and dies and US bolts and nuts for odd sizes, like B.S.F and M.E threads.

McMaster-Carr sells metric drill rod, to bad they do not ship to Canada..If you want to change BA threads to U.S sizes here is a size caparison chart, if you wanted to use U.S Taps and dies. I for one would us BA threads the bolts and nuts witch look much better on a model {unless you make them...