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At whits end with a employee
If this guy is still on your payroll, you are the fool...- Phil in Montana
- Post #93
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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WTB Monarch 12CK Oversize Steady Rest
you dont like the repop casting and machine your own?- Phil in Montana
- Post #3
- Forum: Tooling, Parts and Accessories For Sale or Wanted
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Improve Longevity of Worm Gears?
A worm gear is the highest friction gearing you can have, I would sub the machining out, or buy all the right machinery to build the gear sets. Use 90wt or better gear oil for brass. Make the worm wheel from sil bronze and the worm from heat treated 8620...- Phil in Montana
- Post #10
- Forum: General
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9/16" - 12 Acme L H threaded rod?
You can machine one in less time than you have spent looking for one...- Phil in Montana
- Post #3
- Forum: General
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Obsolete pins & bushings
You need lawyerproof steel sae 101, bought at any courtroom in your state, a little pricy about 100k a pound...- Phil in Montana
- Post #11
- Forum: General
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At whits end with a employee
Show him the door, he will drag the rest of your workers down, just a cancer the shop does not need...- Phil in Montana
- Post #52
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues
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Acme Treaded Rods
Almost can not be done, not enough room to withdraw the cutting tool, once the pass has been made in the nut...tool will be real wimpy and a very slow go...and if the nut is long will be a nightmare...- Phil in Montana
- Post #5
- Forum: General
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How to slowly ramp up RPMs on motor
Just need a veriack you have a universal motor, a vfd will not be usefull for a soft start...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #2
- Forum: Transformers, Phase Converters and VFD
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Cincinnati Hypro planer
Unless you have repeat paying work, leave it alone...most likely the scrap-man will buy it. the cost of tare-down, loading and moving will be in the 1000s and then the floor space it takes up, this is the real def of a money pit...- Phil in Montana
- Post #21
- Forum: USA Heavy Iron
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Wiring a 24x40 shop - 3-Phase for machines
Very nice but way to costly...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #6
- Forum: Transformers, Phase Converters and VFD
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Wiring a 24x40 shop - 3-Phase for machines
put a 200amp lc in the front right and a 100 amp in the rear left and run the feed between the two under the slab, this will more than pay for its self in wiring cost later on...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #4
- Forum: Transformers, Phase Converters and VFD
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Lift using two chain hoists
Ok buy a 5 ton still out there cheap, I have a 10 ton cost 66 bucks...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #38
- Forum: Material Handling and Rigging
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Looking for info on 1940's sidney lathe
The USN ww2 Sidneys were on par or even better than a Monarch, a real treat to use...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #6
- Forum: Antique Machinery and History
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Looking for info on 1940's sidney lathe
Not USN from a ship...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #3
- Forum: Antique Machinery and History
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Lift using two chain hoists
Go shopping on cl or fb chain hoists show up often and are cheap, just buy a 3 ton...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #20
- Forum: Material Handling and Rigging
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Lift using two chain hoists
It would help to know what the machine is...BUT if you can hook it in 2 spots and keep the machine level on the lift and the drop no problem, it is done all the time, but if it gets out of level one hoist would hog the load, maybe to overload...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #6
- Forum: Material Handling and Rigging
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Flame cutting cast iron
Real simple NO...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #8
- Forum: Machine Reconditioning, Scraping and Inspection
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1978 I/M 10EE with apron feed motor on Portland CL
Steep price for re-builders with bad electrics...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #46
- Forum: Monarch Lathes
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Welders- do you ever take on work where you know the design is inadequate?
Evidentiary most of the posters have never been in a law suit, and dont no crap about the law and what they are advising you to do, if you know it will fail but you build it anyway, you will be the fall guy...Phil- Phil in Montana
- Post #52
- Forum: Shop Management and Owner Issues