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Dont give up on your hand turning skills they can be very handy and quick solutions sometimes just ask a clockmaker!!!

for something that small using Snopake (whiteout) to mask where you dont want the solder to go is a worthwhile exercise especially if you thin it with cellulose thinners you will get a finer line and filing scratch marks on the female part of the joint will make the solder flow better, and as a...

sorry but zeus book is in poor condition and does not scan well but go to YouTube and look up coordinate hole drilling. Joe pie etc ,3 of them are quite good.

I have posted but its not appeared whats going on?

sorry have tried photos and scanning but the condition is awful but to the rescue comes YouTube . just do a search for bolt hole calculation there are several and among the best IMHO is Joe Pie ,tom stikkelman or r. dean Odell

Back cover of the zeus book

Over the years I have made 5!!! of these one with a round toolbit. the round version and one square one have TC toolbits I tend to use them for difficult materials. One of the great advantages of them is they will remove large quantities of material in one pass making the stock sizing ooperation...

sorry but you are more than halfway there if you have a digi caliber and a local bearing supplier

Go to Myfords website and search Oilite bushes all the dims are there and all bog standard items

Try setting your compound slide over 5.7 deg, this gives you a ratio of 10 to 1 so you can machine tenths. And if you polish your cutting tool all will be well.

We call them rose joints

a propelling pencil as an apparatus for writing where the lead is propelled out of the front by twisting the body parts or rear knob. I still use my mothers old silver Yard-O-Led!!!!!!

My Alum comes from a spice shop

It will dissolve any steel so only use on non ferrous components, one of the tricks to help things along is to have a hypo with some mixture in it and slide down the flute of the broken tap to flush new alum mixture down the hole, speeding up the process. I just stand my tub on top of a warm...

Sorry Steve but these two threads are not the same on two counts. 3/16 is 0.187 and no 10 is 0.192. 3/16 x 40 is 55deg and no 10 x40 is 60 deg. not much but in these small sizes VERY important.

As its a revolution counter it could be used for coil winding or anything that needs a specific rev count.

to be super safe use a floating reamer holder!

when I make my D bits I find it easier to get reliable dims if you harden then grind, making them from carbide is even better!

I tend to make D bits for small main bearing bores