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Hi Barry looking good but I would consider alloy for the shear pin, I think steel / iron may be too strong. Better too weak in the event of an error. I was going to add a photo of the shear pin for the Emco but failed ! guess you have to make an album on the site first ??? However it is soft...

Hi Barry, I have a pretty much identical machine purchased new around 1977, mine has the power cross feed as well. Regarding the bed casting I am sure they are considerably beefed up on the long bed, the casting is deeper thus keeping the stiffness and rigidity of a standard bed. One thing I...

George is on the money here, I too have made many HSS form tools this way for producing one to form a sphere or half sphere, it does depend on how accurate you need to be, is the sphere functional or cosmetic? I have also dressed a wheel to size to make the form. There is also merit in using...

A little humour re - fettler, pickler etc -- received this from an old pal from apprentice days who's now in Canada : - Yossel Zelkovitz worked in a Polish pickle factory. For many years, he had a powerful, almost uncontrollable desire to put his penis in the pickle slicer...

A good quality bearing bronze - phosphor bronze -would be best, but from my experience do not use Aluminium bronze ! It is not suitable a bearing material , I once made some bushes for a vintage 2-stroke engine, it seized in about 10 seconds, tried with more clearance and it did the same --...

Hi Barry , first I am not an electrician and knowledge is limited to simple electrics However I have run a Myford with a Dewhurst switch for over 50 years and no problems , now on VFD why I waited so long goodness knows! As far as reverse IMO yes go for it if only for the reasons already stated...

HI Julian, Not necessary to lock the cross slide indeed it will be counter productive in most cases, however I would advise you to not just try to move the dial from the set position to the new position you want, always back off and then come up to the new position. If you overshoot then back...

Hi I Have not read every post so hope I am not repeating someone else, apologies if I do. In the late 60's and 70's I worked for quite a while on jig borers, typical tolerance +\ - 0.0002" max was probably 0.0005" occasionally a little wider on production stuff. However one method of edge...