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    Timer Relay repair or replace

    My three tube later model 30 inch 10EE was not turning on after four years of not being used. The 60 second timing relay is NOT working, allowing the green light to turn on and the lathe to come to life. Bypassing the relay( applying 110 volts to the "C" terminal) the lathe works fine. Did a...
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    Gardner Horizontal Disc grinders- Tub Grinder.

    I ALMOST scrapped a Gardner 124 horizontal disc grinder this week, but the more I think about this machine, the more I want to make it run and use it. This machine has a fifty three inch diameter grinding wheel, made up out of FOUR pie shaped segments. These segments are attached to a 1 1/4 inch...
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    Tool Presetter arm not actuating Daewoo Lathe

    A month ago, my tool presetter arm stopped working as in actuating when I pushed the DOWN button. I have a Daewoo Puma 230C lathe, made in 1999, with a Fanuc 21T control. Fortunately this isn't a post ASKING for help, but one offering a solution if anyone ever runs into this problem. The arm is...
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    Drake Mfg Warren Ohio- sold

    I received an email this morning announcing the sale of Drake Mfg out of receivership. Kind of a shock to see what seemed like an outwardly very successful company going bankrupt. Sold for two million dollars, which frankly is chump change for an ongoing manufacturing company. Anybody out there...
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    Domestic Production Activities Deduction

    I've been manufacturing machine tools for 16 years and through a completely different internet site, found out about the form 8903 Domestic Production Activities Deduction. So if you manufacture products in America, you're entitled to this NINE percent deduction. I've never seen this form in any...
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    OT- Paypal "CHARGEBACKS" and EBAY

    45 Days ago I sold and shipped a fume extractor on ebay to a buyer in Texas. He paid instantly via paypal, and I shipped the item out with the shipping cost of around $40.00. Yesterday Paypal has done a CHARGEBACK to my account for the full amount of the sale including shipping, the Ebay fees...
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    Reliable Tools didn't Pay their shippers, now billing consignees

    So I get a bill today from a trucking company - PAST DUE invoice, from a shipment I paid Reliable the shipping charges back in October. So now that they have filed bankruptcy, the shippers I GUESS are coming after the consignees. So here we are half way through February and I'm getting billed...
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    Exporting US made Machines-goods

    I'm a small machine tool manufacturer, and normally would think getting overseas orders would be great- but what a stupid bunch of forms you need to fill out to actually accomplish this. This year, I've had to take quite a bit of time to go to my local Chamber of Commerce, to have them sign and...
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    Time to say goodbye to several machines- Planers, mills, grinders

    I ran out of room YEARS ago, but still kept stuffing MORE machines into too small of space. I have TWO lifetimes of projects and only ONE lifetime to get-em done. These machines need to sell just for their SCRAP value, but I'd gladly take more. MACHINES to go- Rockford 36 inch planer. Single...
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    Any one have a V2XT programming manual 1104-2638?

    I've had a V2XT sitting in my shop for over eight years, that I've never used because I don't have a programming manual. Pretty dumb, huh? the basic machine is in great shape. Initially didn't work because the battery in the computer was dead. I played around with the machine for awhile, and...
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    Anyone know what happened to Tomco in Racine Wisconsin

    Tomco at some point made machine tool handles and micrometer dials. Anybody know anything about them, where they went or if their line lives on under a new name? they're listed as a vendor for my micrometer dials, but I sure haven't found a trace of them other than patents in the sixties.
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    Anyone finding EBAY NOT accepting their bids in the Last 5 to 8 seconds

    Today for the second time in two weeks I entered a bid at the eight second point, only to have my screen go blank for a couple of seconds, and then the same screen come back up, saying to enter the bid again. This occured a couple of weeks ago, so today i threw in a test bid, three minutes...
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    Machine Tool Freight Class Survey- What Class have you had slapped on your Machines?

    A recent experience with shipping a shaper from Michigan to Oregon has me a little on the cranky side. Besides the fact it wasn't shipped with the carrier of my choice, the machine was classified as a CLASS 110 shipment.Weighed 2500 pounds, shipped on one pallet. I've shipped HIGH VALUE machine...
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    Purpose of twin spindle Woodworking shapers with CW & CCW planer type cutters?

    I just got in an Oliver 288 shaper, made back in the late 30"s, that is equipped with two six inch tall, five inch diameter jointer or planer type cutting heads. These three knife cutter heads are oriented right now, so the spindles turn opposite directions. The insertable cover in the middle of...
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    Possibly a NEW Trucking Scam- Beware of UnAuthorized pickups

    I've bought a pretty fair amount of machines and had them shipped in the last 12 years, but this week, I've experienced a pretty bewildering problem. I bought an Oliver Shaper from an Ebay seller located in Detroit last week. Their ad said local pickup, which to me, means THEY're NOT going to...
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    Cleveland Mo-Max cutters quality NON EXISTANT?

    VersaMil manufactures a flycutter arbor for it's machine tools, and with the arbor I've ALWAYS provided a Mo-Max 5/16ths lathe bit. High Speed steel supposedly ground on all four sides to fairly accurate dimensions. These cutters up to a year ago didn't SAY where they were made, but I always...
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    Bigger Grinders-Flatness tolerances

    In the world of grinding there's all the small grinders, that you can grind a part flat within .0002 or .0001. But with BIG grinders, what's a realistic tolerance for getting big pieces flat. I have a Thompson that is 12 x 40 and a Mattison thats a 36 by 120. I'm trying to get a 12 inch wide...
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    Thompson Model C Hydraulic Pressures?

    I have a Thompson Model C that the table speed is abnormally slow. The fastest speed is around 480 inches per minute, where the manual says it should reach 1200 inches per minute. This machine which uses a Vickers hydraulic pump, has a relief valve on the left side of the base. Attaching a...
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    FreightQuote and moving machines

    Since purchasing VersaMil in 2000, I've bought and moved a lot of machines. Easily over 200 starting with a Brown and Sharpe Turret drill purchased out of South Carolina, from our fearless Practical Machinist guru and sometime machine tool dealer, Milacron. Most people don't want to move...
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    Disappearing Threads??

    Responded twice to queries on Jones and Shipman grinders in this forum. Both posts have disappeared. Very appropriate posts for the grinding forum- so something has gone awry with this site.

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