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    Just picked up a horizontal Mill, what kind is it?

    There's some grave similarity to the factory collet and chuck for a SB vertical mill - except the chuck collar is a bit different. Can you extrapolate and guess whether the largest collet would hold a 3/4" shank? Regardless the chuck source, i kind of doubt that it is original to the machine...
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    Oliver 25B Lathe - Motor Not Coming On.

    you should be able to determine the motor voltage by how the internal windings are connected. Maybe there is something here that would be useful...
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    10K largest turning size

    SB listing looks correct. Mine might be 10-1/16" to the closest way (the TS flat) And my bed was planed and scraped, so it *might* be a tinch closer than factory. But you are not going to swing 10.5" without building a riser block for the headstock. :) From memory, when i fully machined the...
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    anchors in block and brick walls?

    For zinc split anchors used with lag bolts, I have used WEST with either thick mix of cotton flocking, or sometimes mortar mix. I blow out the hole as others have described with a tube/wand of sufficient length, then poke the epoxy in with flat stick ( to help scrape/squeegee/embed the sides)...
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    anchors in block and brick walls?

    Richard - Great to hear you are making progress getting all moved in, and possibly finally freeing up some actual working room/floorspace? smt
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    Molding heads FS in tooling classified

    Thanks, that is the ideal way to do things in my mind. We (woodwhackers) all get the benefit of seeing your offer, you get more eyeballs on the subject than mere crusty old machinists who might care less, and it does not clutter up this forum with needless chitchat and arguments about whether...
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    Replacing hardened steel slide rods on Wadkin Radial Arm Saw

    Glad to hear it worked so well! (so far as you noted, anyway) You owe him. :) "His guy" probably had more than a couple hours in it. FWIW, putting the work in a lathe, it is possible to make quite accurately round rods, uniformly on diameter though not necessarily with any straightness...
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    Can You Help Me With Fairing an Inside Non-Circular Curve in 1/8" Soft steel Plate?

    I use sanding sponges for a number of apps. They would not be useful for shaping steel or other hard metals, but can be good sometimes for breaking edges and preliminary polishing. Flat papers/fabrics with a hard backer (whether flexible or shaped) are necessary for shaping. Though again, i...
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    Can You Help Me With Fairing an Inside Non-Circular Curve in 1/8" Soft steel Plate?

    Spring steel, or some of the very thin woodworking scrapers. I've actually surface ground a scraper to make it more flexible, though my purpose was drilling holes in it, to use as a filing and sanding mask over metallic details in wood so that when the finish was on, the metal parts could be...
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    Starrett goes private

    Despite making blades for power hacksaws, Starrett never was a "cutting edge" company. They were always a marketing and branding company, that bought out companies that made better products, but did not market well. Familiar items being surface plates, 199 precision levels, & gage blocks, just...
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    beta U20 universal tool grinder

    Will - you have been on here long enough to know "no pix, did not happen" :) Someone might or might not be able to advise based on apparent similarity to other machines. Most could probably answer your Q's regarding apparent quality with a few good photos. PS, if it is in excellent shape, why...
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    Just picked up a horizontal Mill, what kind is it?

    Can assure you it is not Cataract. Dunno about Ames or Stark. But still unlikely as those, like many cataract models, were built around add-on building blocks to the lathe castings. The column on yours was purpose - cast as a single unit.
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    Looking for help with Sargent Hand Plane

    That is a great era Stanley - heavy castings, good hardware, and still rosewood totes. #5 size bench planes were the most common, though i preferred the larger, heavier #6 for jobsites. Not quite as heavy as a #8, but almost as effective as #7 and a little easier to shoot long parts straight...
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    Rare 10K variable speed value

    Can't remember (I sort of remember the project)- are you the person that designed that great ball/radius cutting fixture? Is that an eccentric turning chuck? Or? Do any 6K collets come with the lever collet closer? Carriage stop and threading dial are valuable. That and some of the other...
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    Looking for help with Sargent Hand Plane

    Almost any quality adjustable throat block plane is going to see more use than most any single plane in your arsenal, unless you are almost completely a benchworker, in which cast the 408 might get a bit more use. Re: # 408, FWIW, the bedding surface of a frog (for the blade) should not have...
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