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Well it was a good thread and showed that software that was priced above $1,000 still had a decent number of people that would pay for it.

On a side note Death Adder, it might have updated the...

Does this put it above the others or below? Others being Grizzly, Jet, HF. I heard Enco lathes were quite good

Where would Enco sit in this scale you think? Jet, Grizzly, Enco, HF?

Precision or high precision, one was more refined than the other I take it – but I saw no numbers to support that.

Bench, tool room, engine, Gap bed, Machine shop, second operation lathes. The...

Getting closer to a bearing surface. The ends are not as refined as the center of the table and I still need to make sure this flat surface is paralleled to the reference points I’m using, but other...

Well I had some fun in the garage today.

I did my last breakup cut over the length of the part then I put the table on my surface plate to take some measurements. The center of the table is about...

Well really there is no harm in throwing the table on the surface plate and checking it out after a cut to see where I am going with it, so I might as well do that. Surprisingly my arms are all...

Well presently I am not scraping for alignment or bearing, I’m rough scraping the part do a desired depth before I being the alignment process. I’m removing material using a standard 45/45 so that...

This is my first crack at scraping a part – I chose the table top of my mill because it was in need of having the first few 100’s of an inch scraped off anyways. Plenty of material to practice with...

On my Clausing 8520 there is a small gap between the riser block and column of the mill, is there any real reason for this? does the column need to breath because its hallow?

I was talking to an old machinist a while back and he was telling me that he would use the knee of the mill instead of the quill for Z motion just because the quill was better off being bolted in...

about a month ago it was on sale at a local HF, sorry to say

I would agree, white would get dirty faster - but maybe the machinery will be cleaned more offten because you notice it more? Just a guess.

Cool thanks for checking into it. I'll have some pictures of the lathe sometime this week so you guys could give me your opinion if its worth breaking down the lathe for cleanup or not.

I just...

Yeah forgot to mention that. Its an 11" gap so its like a 12". Its belt driven and for this test I disengaged the lathes head from the rest of the unit - so only the lathes head was spun by hand.

If you disconnect the belts and disengage the lathe from the drive shaft how much force should be required to rotate the lathes head? I tried that on my lathe and it I need to put a considerable...

Well the table has gotten a lot better with nothing more than some Wd40 and steel wool and some 200/320 grit sand papering.

There are still gouges of metal in the table that are about 0.001” deep...

Is it alright to use paint thinner (mineral spirits) to clean up the marking on a Granite Master Surface?

This all depends on your current experience with the machine but wouldn’t a touch screen be a bad idea for a piece of machinery like this? I’d be concerned with the screen getting scratched up with...

I guess it would be safe to say that if you were to be building a new bearing surface you would first mill/grind it down, scrape it to a bearing surface, flake the surface for oil retention and then...

I want to learn to scrap and my first project is a 30 year old mill I recently bought. I want to scrap the bearing surfaces of this mill because I want the esthetics of a scraped surface as well as...

I am going to replace my 7/8" lead screw in my milling machine and was wondering which option made the most sense.

1) Replace with a 3/4" leadscrew. At $250 this options is the cheapest and...

interesting, well that does make sense. If you use such a device on a lathe my guess is you would have a very specialized lathe by the time you were done.

Maybe someone here could answer this – I’ve read that tool post grinders don’t use coolant. I would think that it would be very beneficial to use coolant, at the very least to keep dust controlled. ...

Well I want to be able to grind surfaces and use this as a finishing operation with making a leadscrew with my lathe, or simply grinding down shafts to a smooth surface. I know off the top of my...

I was looking at getting a 0.0001" resolution test indicator and noticed they had one for about $100 less than a Mitutoyo and was wondering if I should get the enco one or get the Mitutoyo. I had a...

So anyone out there with the equpment to do Precision ground leadscrews?

Well the lathe is only 1hp so I'm not sure how much power hp the post grinder should have in reation to the lathes motor. I guess up to 1/5hp would be alright but I'm really new at this stuff.

This a good buy - or should I look / make something else?

http://www.littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=1275


I've got a 1hp lathe - 10x24"

I’m rebuilding a Clausing 8520 mill and I’m in the need for new X and Y leadscrews, or refurbishing the ones I have. If anyone here has the equipment to make them and interested in offering a quote...