The Home Machinist!

My experience running coolant is rather dated, but is there a good reason you can't run flood? Or dry?

Compressed air by itself may help, certainly it's less messy. What's the problem you're trying to solve?

Mr Ron wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 4:54 pm. I'm trying to think of something I absolutely need, but can't think of it at present.

Beer fridge?

I have recently been contemplating setting this up. The method I was going to use involved the pack-carburising (bonechar and charcoal, sealed box), but once out of the kiln/furnace, immediately it's dumped into a tank of water with air being bubbled through. I have been given to undertand that the ...

Wooden pulleys are common on old lineshafting - and no reason not!
Gone is the wheelwright, but wooden-spoked wheels do good service, hubs, pins and all.
I'm sure many of the hardwoods are dimensionally stable once seasoned, and asides from burning better, don't offer any advantages over alloy...

Hey BDD, I usually enjoy your comments. But, No, this is not “Spyware” ... No one has reported any malware problems. I completely understand his sentiment, and it might not be MALware, but is almost definitely SPYware (synonymous with anything Google) If you read the Terms and Conditions you will p...

It’s called Snapseed, and is published free by Google. Almost anything published free by Google would set off an alarm bell around here. What you have is likely spyware. Sent from your Commodore 64 through a VPN and anonymising proxy? Most camera/tablet cameras are designed for taking photos of peo...