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Now the Serious Spending can begin
I’ve wanted a metal lathe for, ooohhh, probably 8 or 9 years. I half-heartedly began building one, but after some industrial espionage (delivery trunk rolled over my furnace) I gave that up. What I...
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Engine Difference Babbage’s
On my old blog, I once did a post on Babbage’s Difference Engine and how to run it backwards. However, I didn’t really finish the thought there and just recently it came up again IRL. 1 So this time, I...
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Or Maybe It Won’t!
I said that now the serious spending could begin. And it kind of has, since I bought supplies for the countershaft, some measuring tools, a toolbox to put them in, a drill chuck, a tailstock spindle...
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The Really Real Lathe
So about 9 months ago I still had this tiny lathe. It was so underpowered I couldn’t do much with it. I’ve also heard it described in more than one place as a “boat anchor”, which could explain why I...
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Lathe, Continued
Holy crap, I never posted a picture of the restored South Bend 10K! I considered putting flame details on the headstock. I’ve done quite a few little things with this since then, the biggest of which...
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