The Home Machinist!

It depends on what you are planning to use it for. I spent considerable time outfitting a small horizontal mill because it was free and out of my dad's shop. It even has a vertical head for use with end mills. Trouble is that after all is assembled the head space was about 2" above the table at...

Ndav8r said: "I do external neck turn all my brass" I did not intend to step on your toes. The remark about cramming stuff together was more for the non-reloader's benefit. There are probably, as you know, 50 different things that can effect a reload. 90% of those relate to consistency and...

Apparently the shop is too small for an EHS person (Environmental Health Safety). If it weren't they would be on it big time. I'm surprised there are no ceiling exhaust fans, but then again it may be a small shop. Re: the MSDS sheet - These are easily found online if you have the brand name of the a...

To add one more point to Harold's discussion, if the case neck is not of uniform thickness, then in seating the bullet, the neck will stretch more on one side than the other, and add it's eccentricity. Reloading is not just cramming the components together so they look right. I have always suggested...

Is there any reason one couldn't buy a cheapo HF dial vernier, cut away the parts that one doesn't need and mount the rest on the tailstock. I could envision the dial head attached to the TS housing and an attachment on the quill to push and pull the portion carrying the rack. For a more expensive s...

If I were to guess, then I'd guess that the adapter plate is there so that when the vise is turned parallel to the ways, the vise jaws would still be in range of the cutter. The Atlas milling fixture that I am acquainted with mounts directly over the cross feed rotary dovetail and it is still limite...

For me it would be a waste of good money. Neither my machines nor I am capable of holding a dimension to the nearest micron. It would seem to me that there would be few applications for this in the home shop and probably 99% of the commercial shops. I suppose if one were measuring di-lithium nano-wh...

Does it come with a climate controlled room and insulated gloves?

--earlgo

Harold:
Thanks for the instructions. No one explained it that succinctly before.

And this is the Starrett Drill Point Gauge that the Colorado School of Trades insisted we have in our toolboxes. Now it is the Model 22C



Great for checking the angle (as long as it is 59°) and lip length.

--earlgo

On the Atlas 12" Model 3583 that lives in my garage, there are two belts. One from the motor to the cross shaft, and one from the cross shaft to the headstock. The tension in each is adjustable separately and by trial and error one can determine which belt is causing the bouncing. Both belts ar...

Not to be forgotten is the General 825 with which I have had some success. For me, better than hand sharpening, but far less accurate than the PolyChoke fixture (if one happens to have the right collet). Easier to set up than the Darex 305, but limited in the small drills. Works great for larger dri...