The Home Machinist!

In a slightly different gear direction, does anyone know of an accurate reference or program for designing cycloidal gears as used in clocks? Cycloidal gears are different in form from involute gears. My friend is back to his long-term want to build a clock and would like to find software that does ...

No one has asked if you have checked ebay for parts. I know that a lot of Atlas/Craftsman lathes are parted out and the parts are sold on ebay.
Just a thought in passing.
--earlgo

Every one should have one. I found this several years ago at a reseller but couldn't get it in the back of the VW. Oh well.
--earlgo

Horizontal mills are good for this type of cut. Sometimes you can find the cutters on ebay.
--earlgo

The 12" Atlas lathe my dad bought in 1958 has been running on a 1/3HP motor ever since. It cuts threads, runs the power cross feed and drills big holes with little or no problems. I don't think I have stalled it more than once. But if it is not the same lathe as yours, then there is little comp...

When I was working for a large company as a mechanical design engineer, the drafting/modelling software of choice was Solid Works. I had an opportunity to use the software at home, so I downloaded it. After my personal Autocad license ran out and the SolidWorks license ran out, I looked for an alter...

Wow, that is going to be a trip into the long-ago land of dimensional analysis that I left somewhere around 1965.
It might be a fun trip though, and I mean the kind of trip that hurts.
--earlgo

What Bill says is very true. A file with any taper on the faces end to end will not work well at all. It is far better to find a file with no taper on the faces or sides. Also, the file has to be mounted with the teeth pointing downward or you will have difficulty holding the part being filed from b...

I finally found a use for a brazed carbide lathe tool. It makes a good fly cutter for hard steel. I used this one on some 4140 PH stock at Rc 30 and then managed to use it a bit on some Rc50 material. Not very deep cuts but enough to face off what was needed. --earlgo

Harold wrote:I had owned a 218 Bee ..... case life was limited (belted cartridge) I don't like to be annoying but the only 218 Bee cartridges I ever saw were not belted. I built a 218 Mashburn Bee when I was in the trade school, on a Wesley Richards small Martini action. 218 MB cases b.jpg 218 MB W...

My Atlas #3983 12" lathe has a 1_1/2-8 tpi spindle.
--earlgo

Harold, I bought a BSA action from Herters and had a fellow in NJ put a 17-222 barrel on it, after which I made a cherry stock. Greatest woodchuck rifle I ever had. No noise, to fear of ricochets and whatever you hit was done. 17222#1.JPG 17222#2.JPG 17222#3.JPG You will really like yours, too. --ea...