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  1. kustomizer

    Ha5c dual head trouble, slave lost accuracy

    It has been trouble free since 2005 and runs most days, I have a tombstone looking thing in both heads and one went to shit all of the sudden. I called the HFO and it took a day but he said there is a plastic part between the two heads. It took some doing but I found a brolen up spider from a...
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    6" dia, bronze, steel tipped bullet 30 1/2" long, what did it fit?

    6" dia, bronze, steel tipped bullet 30 1/2" long, what did it fit?
  3. kustomizer

    FS Monarch Machine Tool Co 10EE Lathe - $3,500 (Rancho Cordova) Ca

    Not mine but here it is https://sacramento.craigslist.org/tls/d/rancho-cordova-monarch-machine-tool-co/7488700133.html Monarch Machine Tool Co 10EE Lathe Vintage: 1956 SN: 42352 Fair physical condition. On hand and available for inspection. Photos of actual unit for sale. Please reach out...
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    Reverse engineering, finding hole centers in a 1.8 dia x .025 thick disc.

    I need to precisely locate 4 holes in this disc, one is .062, one is .078 one is .085 and the last is .187, the 2 middle sized holed are somewhat misshapen as a result of having been riveted to another part but are on the centerline of the disc and are the least critical of the bunch, the other...
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    South Bend 10K Metal Lathe - $3,500 (Corvallis)

    Nothing to do with me, it is in Montana South Bend 10K Metal Lathe - tools - by owner - sale
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    5" long, 3/8 drive socket extensions with a special end needed.

    My part in this is complicated but I will try to make it simple, an old friend came to me trying to help a friend of his and me. It is not a job for me so I will try to pass it along to one of you, once the introduction is made, I am out of it. What he wants to end up with is a 3/8 drive...
  7. kustomizer

    Old Johnson punch press operation help

    I have the machine and the manual which is not very helpful, I need to know which way is should spin if it matters.
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    Is there a problem cutting the power to an operating VFD?

    I am wanting to use a VFD to control a 3 phase, 3hp motor, I have a single phase motor I want to be running at the same time. I want the pair to run for a given amount of time, lets say 30 minutes, then both shut off. I was thinking I could put a spring wound timer ahead of the VFD where I...
  9. kustomizer

    Boom to hang my wire feeder from

    In my last shop my wire feed hung from a boom from the center of a red iron beam 16 feet off the floor, would reach everywhere in the 25 x 40 room and about 10 feet out the door. I really found it handy but the reality is now the shop is wood framed with a flat ceiling that is only 113 inches...
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    Lincoln precision tig 275 power requirements

    I have one of these and can't access it just now, did they make them 3 phase or just single?
  11. kustomizer

    Wanted to buy, Leonard Grind-R-Lap

    I am searching for one of these in good shape, anyone out there with one in the way?
  12. kustomizer

    What do you use a Spindexer for?

    A week or so back I got a simple email from an old friend, he asked "do you want a spindexer?" I said perhaps, what is it for? He says it clamps things in a 5c collet and spins them so I replied sure, thinking it was something like a speed lathe or something. Well it showed up yesterday, shiny...
  13. kustomizer

    Precision screen printing

    Is anyone here doing this? I need some some small quantity, high quality parts and would like to do them in house 2" dia
  14. kustomizer

    My HEM Sidewinder auto saw won't run auto any more

    It will run one part at a time then stops. I called HEM, they had me pull the top off and unplug the counter and off it goes running as it should, minus the countdown counter. The counter is no longer available as the saw just turned 19, They have a replacement, digital version that requires...
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    I am looking for source for CNC metal spinning tools

    I am not finding what I am looking for, which I suspect means I am not typing in the right thing. Do any of you have any insights into where a guy would find a supply of such tools? thanks Mark
  16. kustomizer

    I founs some interesting stuff, machines, motion control etc.

    Nothing to do with me, it is near grass valley ca he likes text 650-454-7947 302 Moved
  17. kustomizer

    Merry Christmas everyone from Idaho

    3 new inches of snow this morning.
  18. kustomizer

    Enshu DTL machining centers, does anyone here use them, I found some for cheap

    I have been thinking about a small cnc router then I ran across these but I don't know anything about them. 2 Enshu Model DTL - 30 taper CNC machining centers with rotary pallet changers. These are high speed, (10,000 RPM), high production machines. One has a Fanuc CNC control, the other a...
  19. kustomizer

    I would like to find a Multi position quill stop, does anyone here know who made them

    I saw one on a machine when I was young, it was 4 position as I recall, it could have been home made IDK.
  20. kustomizer

    No question here, just a small shop compressor solution/sizing info.

    After researching and some thought, here is what I decided to do. I wanted as small a motor as I could get preferably with soft starts as we are billed on inrush combined with usage. I have been picking at a control box for my bank of 4 compressors. I will be adding a relay to each machine with...

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