By D. J. Wiederhold Years ago, a friend of mine broke the .200” diameter section off of his edge finder and was going to throw it away. I told him I would take it if he didn’t mind. I finally came up with a use for it after it sat in my toolbox for many, [...]
By Kenneth Hemmelgarn The attached photos should help to illustrate a simple solution I came up with for cutting near net-shaped stock with the common dual-use bandsaw. The rip fence was a quick and easy modification put together with some basic items I had on hand. The guide is quickly removed or adjusted for size. [...]
By Denis Renaud I always keep a small container of cutting oil and small acid brush at the lathe and milling machine. To prevent them from getting knocked over and making a big mess, I use two plastic yogurt containers, sized so one container fits into the other. In the first container I place a [...]
By Mike Solomon I have a tip that might make life easier for your readers. When I need to turn small diameter rod on a larger lathe, the fitted chuck often will not close small enough to hold the workpiece. My six-jaw chuck on the South Bend 10K only goes down to about 1/8” diameter [...]
By Doug Ripka We recently bought a small Jet drill press at work. The drill has T-slots in it instead of the open slots our old drill press had, so we couldn't use our Vise-Grip style table clamps that we had grown fond of. (One example of what we are using is the Grizzly H1127 [...]
By by Gerry Betteridge This tip came about after I purchased a mill-drill machine awhile back. It came to me, as it may have come to you, that the location of your workpiece was lost whenever you attempted to alter the height of the head. Having a round column, there was no way I could [...]