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    Help with a Bradford Lathe

    Take a look here for some background information on Bradford machines. http://www.lathes.co.uk/bradford/ At the bottom of the page they say they have diagrams that might help if you match your model. Good luck, there's work ahead of you.
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    Fixing torn plastic case

    Some plastics just age into brittleness and nothing that I know of can restore the original flexibility.
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    Boring and Honing Machines for Sale

    I used to run a Moore jig grinder. Beautiful machine. I'd buy both of them just to enjoy if I had any place to put them.
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    OK you guys. Who is making bank in these bushings>

    Heck, I'd do that for them for $89,000.
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    Ensuring the coat of prussian blue on the granite is thick enough, but not too thick

    This guy makes an ink spreader with a turned knob, cotton waste and a muslin cover cinched with a couple rounds of wire. He said when the muslin wears out it's easy to replace. And he keeps it in a tubular container away from swarf.
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    Have Canode upped their game yet?

    I've seen staining on parts marked up with Canode, diluted with Windex and unintentionally left for a long time. Humidity can be a problem here, especially the annoying changes from cold weather to warm, humid gulf air where everything sweats overnight. So that might be a reasonable hypothesis...
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    Starrett goes private

    Don't expect the rich to be generous. They didn't get rich by being generous. The money they spend is to acquire more for themselves, not for any benefit to you. If they advocate for lower taxes, it's not to relieve the tax burden on the lower classes.
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    New Accu-Finish owner questions

    That was a Chinese carbide grinder that I modified. The green wheels that came with it I thought were just above worthless so I modified it to put a diamond wheel on one end and a cast iron lap on the other. It an ideal world it would run a little slower, but it does a perfectly good job of...
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    Blade Micrometer with Pivoting Anvil?

    I'm left scratching my head for how useful a blade micrometer would be if one of the blade anvils did NOT pivot.
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    New Accu-Finish owner questions

    The practice is so that the wheel with abrasive is cutting down towards the cutting edge...With a scraper blade using a negative angle (that is, an obtuse angle between the cutting face and flat of the blade) a tool rest tilted down at the back will be dressing the lower cutting edge. (There...
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    Starrett goes private

    The US might have a uniquely antagonistic relationship between unions and management and it may have been developed that way intentionally. Oversimplified, the fear that cooperation between unions and management would be to the detriment of consumers may have gotten us to where we are today...
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    wtb cf-502m and cf-1126m

    So I'm also looking for a part number 311020355. If you have one I'd like to hear from you. -+-+ +
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    wtb cf-502m and cf-1126m

    I may be stupid too, because I have no idea what you're looking for. So, sorry, no help at all.
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    what are the different styles of flaking called?

    This is a commentary from someone I corresponded with several years ago, sadly now passed on. He doesn't name it, but describes how this was done. "I have seen various opinions and recommendations, at times contradictory, about how to finish a scraped surface. In Europe in the 50's, when my...
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    Re-zeroing Mitutoyo 103-262 1-2" mic

    If the sleeve has a hole for the spanner it was made to be rotated. I don't know any tricks. Penetrant maybe? Hold it in your hand by the sleeve on the theory that heat might expand it slightly and free it up? Cheater bar on the pin spanner?
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    what are the different styles of flaking called?

    Do you have a picture of the Deckel flaking? That might help the discussion. Connelly has some discussion but not much on illustration for photos.
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    Learning to scrape - with help from Richard King

    Yeah, it looks like it could be good for measuring dovetails. The rolls are nested into male of female dovetails and you mic over them. Then a little trigonometry will tell you where the slanted surfaces are. On female dovetails I'll often put rolls (dowels) in the corner and then expand an...
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    Learning to scrape - with help from Richard King

    Richard isn't back 100% but he's scraping by. Love a guy with a sense of humor.
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    Starrett goes private

    In the early 80's I was working for an electrical equipment manufacturer here in the US that had multiple plants all over. Our plant was just one cog, and the department I was in was a small part of the plant. So we were looking at purchasing our first NC machine for use in the toolroom. We...
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    IT Folks: Video Links Invisible in Posts

    Yes, I'm seeing he same phenomenon so you're not alone.

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