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After using my smithy for a few months those dang e-clips are really starting to peeve me off.

Each time I need to do a gear change I get out the screw driver, start pushing an e-clip off the gear...

I'm going to try this conversion myself, perhaps over the winter months. Great site and great work!

I have a smithy ltd

they are saved as self extracting zip files. Your anti virus or windows security might be set to not allow you to download exe files.

Mine is 12' x 16' and way too small for the toys I have in there. I have to make sure everything is hung up on peg board before the start of every new project or I trip over it.

Shooting myself in the foot but I remember being taught

.1 = tenths
.01 = hundredths
.001 = thousanths
.0001 = hundred thousanths

etc.

thats why many circuits in the automotive industry are packaged in the super tough epoxy, they can't be copied or repaired.

I've only got a standard bench grinder, I hope that will do well enough.

By the way I found a few blanks labled tantung g. Its non magnetic. Is that something special that I should hold onto until...

I stopped at a yardsale during lunch today and while rooting thru misc. boxes look at what I found.

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Got all these lathe cutters for...

I prefer IBM laptops with the magnesium cases, but for personal use I usually buy dell.

Currently I have a dell xps laptop, its not very light thought but its more of a desktop replacement than a...

I found an old logan 850 lathe for 100 bucks is it worth it? I haven't bought it yet planned on paying for it friday. It has a new motor on it and seems to in good working order though dusty.

Might be a silly idea but I have to ask anyway. If you use gas pipe for a linear bearing surface would sealing 250 psi or so in the pipe help with pipe flex?

a little update.

I do have a few gripes about the machine so far, fine mill feed was
very sloppy due to metal fragments in the worm gear assy (took me
awhile to find the problem)

The gibs are...

where is a good place to buy pre ground hss tools?

I have to admit that I know next to nothing about using this machine, But I've been drafting for about 15 years. Currently trying to find an adult vocational class in machining to learn the correct...

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2 hour drive from freight co, 2.5 hours to assemble the table it...

Ground needs depend on what your protecting the equipment from.

Medical grounds would be hated by the audiophile where ground loop avoidence would be unacceptable to medical and industrial...

Hmm I cast at home but theres no way I could cast something that large, My maximum poor including risers and sprue is one liter of molten aluminum. And when your frame go over a certain size, you...

I'm thinking about using one of those DC powered linear actuators (look like a hydraulic cylinder) to drive 4 bolts on the inside of the door into a piece of steel lag bolted into the door jamb and...

This is a question with many answers but I'll ask it anyway.

What is the best method to secure your building? Many folks are getting broken into in my area this year and I'm getting nervous.

I...

This might be a silly idea but why couldn't a person make a positive or negative ion charger to charge air and blow over the static problem surface to cancel out the static charge?

This is good news, we need more good magazines.

I recently ordered a smithy 1220LTD. I hope I made a good choice, but I've never don't any decent machining before on a good machine so I'll be learning. I'll post pictures when I recieve my crate...

Might sound silly, but I usually use stainless steel mixing bowls the smallest required to enclose the transformer. On the open side of the bowl I use a piece of gasket material between the bowl...

Hmm well I ordered one a day ago. Smithy 1220LTD I hope it does what I need it to do and I can learn how to use it..

wow I forgot about this thread. I ordered my smithy ltd 2 days ago.

What type of molding material are they using?

yep, I check in about every 30 min. I actually do it more often when my projects are bogged down due to lack of funds. My mind wants to build something and can't so I enjoy reading about what you...

Been married 10 years and no kids, My wifes hormones drive me nuts enough now without the added hormone terrior squad from a pregnancy.

Nice looking kid you have there. I'll vote.

Thankyou very much, For some reason bablefish interpreter isn't working for me.

Thanks again
Sam Gordon
Louisville, KY