Nice acquisitions, and quite a big step up from the Sherline.

You're going to like those.

@Lab, Not sure which vise you're referring to. I've not bothered to actually measure, but have not had any problems. The new one does lift enough to loosen the parallel despite adjustment. Snugging in stages and some love taps with a dead blow is standard practice to counter this. ;) I do have a 2" ...

I actually have the 4" version of that tilting vise from BusyBee...it's a Groz, and quite nice really. It does suck up a lot of the z height though, and only gets used VERY rarely. I bought one of these a few weeks back, after looking at it in the Edmonton store. https://www.busybeetools.com/product...

Manual recommends the following: ten days after the machine is put into normal use, it is necessary to change the oil in the headstock. Do you think that's enough? Changed the oil in mine before I ran it in and after. Now change it yearly. Doesn't hold much oil so it's cheap insurance. Don't forget...

I rarely use the compound unless cutting tapers. For longitudinal turning, any misalignment will throw diameters off. I actually have one qctp setup that mounts directly to the cross slide...no compound at all. Chamfers and threading are accomplished by tool geometry alone. For the diy dro, I'm usin...

Sweet! So... do you just butt it up to the ways to make sure it's parallel? Slap it on, eyeball it straight to the ways and get after it. If you look across one straight item at another, it's fairly easy to see relatively minor angles of "off kilter"....and I'm under no pretense that I'm holding +/...

Mr Foo hit on the major point...the ends are where most failures occur first, and it can be pretty dramatic...even deadly. Wasn't too long ago that a fellow was working on a modified Benjamin Discovery and had the valve blow nearly through his thigh...barely missing the femoral artery. Another fello...

Nice work Jack.

As far as useful skills go, threading is right up there with grinding tools...opens options and doors to all kinds of new projects!

Al

Ever considered ECM rifling? I believe the FGC-9 and it's ecm'd barrel have been shared here before; https://youtu.be/AyPJ2br5NFQ Smith and Wesson has been using ECM to rifle barrels for a while now....a quick look at the commercial version of the process; https://youtu.be/CylcaXYNzcg Looks a bit ov...

Merry Christmas.

Nice lathe.

Porta power gets my vote...oil is easier to clean up than grease. Testing a pcp reservoir.

Need to look around a bit, but seems like one heck of an upgrade. The blueprint plasma ball/Tesla coil header is pretty cool IMO.

X2 Almost 200 posts and not a single useful one that I've seen. Maybe I'm just gettin old and cranky at this point lol. Your continuous and immensely annoying thread necromancy serves no purpose beyond increasing your post count, and making forum utterly unusable for anyone interested in actualy dis...