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The only 1000 series Aluminium I've ever seen in round bar is 1100 and even that has pretty limited availablity. It looks like 1100 is 99+% pure...

The Termite says "Why? I've made no claim to personal expertise AT ALL. Simply contributed back what I have gathered up from research. And I DID that...

The collet boxes. The wood's in really good shape, just need to make the mounting bracket. I imagine someone pulled these off a machine so they could...

From 2015 dude...

Closer to 50 to 75 years than 25, Dan. Many are older yet. My 0-1" Mitutoyo mic was $ 9.00 in the early 1960's. New ones look the same, measure...

Tooling can bump the value several times over the naked machine. I did not blanch at $2000+ for a post 1960 DV/DSM-59 with a half a roller cabinet...

How the hell does an *arbor press* pull anything? Unless there's more to the thing than is shown here I'm not sure how that could possibly work. I...

This is the Key City Iron Works that is being sold out. They were in operation over 100 years when they closed their doors in 1993. It started out...

Nice machine! Looks like the next generation after mine. I'm envious you have the old centers! I was going to buy a pair of centers from the...

You can listen to what you like but I personally like Starrett as far as some of their tools go, brand new not so much but I think a lot of things...

A travesty, Sir! I have spare Reliance RPM III's with tachogenerators that'll regulate to a gnat's nuts. Triple-redundant 3-P as well. :) But I...

Just feed in from the top of the Groove, a bunch of times until all the material is out of there, except for the Finish allowance. Then run the...

Not a lot of progress lately. Got the main bearing hangers refinished and hung. Still hunting for the second babbit bearing but I've got a bronze...

I should hire you, then. I am stumped at half that percentage! .003" is not challenging. "tenths" mics are overkill for working to a third of...

The regulations are tighter in areas with more pollution. The LA area is one of the worst. For example, if I buy a color of brand X today it may not...

The seller is 78 and a stroke victim, so, yes, he didn't know much about the machine and his price was too high, even for the West Cost market. He...

Sherwin Williams Automotive paint outlets (not the Industrial Coatings arm that Ross is referring to) have a low end single stage urethane enamel...

Glyptal has a conductive paint to prevent static build-up and Corona discharge on cables, motors and electrical gear. Green(ish) colour. Glyptal...

With all due respect. I only understood 50% of what you said. :) I do understand the flex of calipers and that is what Im leaning towards...

Only way I know to get 300 series stainless that hard is to nitride it. But that's a surface hardening process. By any chance was the core soft...

I am an owner, and a programmer of a six pallet KNH-400. I love that machine... and at the same time hate that machine... Fastest, cleanest, and...

Put it under a tarp for that price. You can put a 110 motor on the back porch of that machine and make $200/400 in one day just doing end mill ends...

Too true. I looked it up. Good 'un. Very. Price is a subsidized GIFT! I don't even have space left on the carport, though. Nor the ability to...

Guys ..The work head alone is worth the asking price..It can sharpen drills.. do end mill ends, easy as pie..males a good cut off.. can sharpen lathe...

Calipers are handy, but flex. Love them much for convenience, trust them less. Money is sore tight, there is a surprisingly decent set of 0-6"...

try turning off your coolant on the finish pass and play a little with your remaining stock amount.

And get some high sulfur cutting oil ! Rigid pipe cutting oil works good lacking anything else.

Some Nortons and Thompsons (and others) had a down feed stop.. The down hand wheel had limited accuracy because of guessing at tenths like using a...

Some guy in Iowa covered ESSTIC 55 for us back when he was less grouchy: ...

morestainless, I went with a friend to look at that mill but he passed on it. The seller didn't even know it had a quill until we showed him how it...