good to hear Pat, if you need more you know what to do. gonna take a ride to the yard this weekend and collect some more. there real busy this time of year and have a lot laying around.
skimmerhead
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The water here has a mild electric mineral element to it. I had been running coolant with water and Ballistol, but as good as Ballistol is, some rusting would show up here and there after a few months. Now I've been adding Distilled water when it evaporates and setting the zink bar in the tank. I sanded the bar down.
The rust has completely stopped.
do you have any other type of metal in your system besides steel? such as aluminum, brass, or bronze that is affected by your coolant system? if your rust shows up again drill and tap a thread to the zinc and run a wire and ground it to system. also if you have vibration check between zinc and where its resting. some times it'll eat the metal beneath the zinc. if needed i can send you a special grounding plate made by perco, it's made of pourous bronze and is used on high end boats and yacht's for grounding electrical system's against electrolisis, i have one laying around if you need it. if you have any non ferrous metals in your coolant system you might want to add a piece of magnesium to protect those parts.
skimmerhead :lovebooli = snoops friend
I have, but it is very small and difficult to work with due to the small clamping jaws and limited cross slide travel. Believe it or not My HF mini mill is easier to use. It did work very well for one thing, I back bored a win 97 barrell and in the instructions it suggested clamping the barrell in the milling vise and using the power feed for a good finish. After some jigging It felt solid enough and actually worked pretty well. If I had to bore out another deep hole with a reamer, its what I would use.
If I get a bigger machine I would probably buy a palmgren attachment for that purpose only.
i was just wondering if you hag tryed it. i had a couple of hours to spare a few days ago so i tryed it for the first time. i wanted to make some t-slot nuts for my drill press. it worked well after i had it all lined up and square. good on small stuff if your not in a hurry. the clamping system could use some cajun engenering for sure. but i bought a 9x42 bridgeport with a dro so i won't be using it much anymore. hope to get it in next week. once i get it up and running i'm gonna make a taper cutting attachment to fit the atlas. i got my steady and follow rest fit with roller bearings and they work very well compared to before, will keep you posted.
skimmerhead:castmine:
He's gonna make a taper attachment for my Logan too with that pretty new Bridgeport he just bought ...:mrgreen:
Skimmerhead -
How's life down in GM? It's already too hot over here in Houma!
Not trying to talk you out of it, but why do you need a Lathe/Mill? You planning to work it, or play with it?
Take care,
Reggie
the snow's starting to melt, so that's a good sigh. as far as the lathe and the mill i haven't a clue as what to do with them but a man never has enough toy's. i'm hoping to learn how to use them, then get a contract with NASA to build parts for there new spacecraft, the problem i'm having now is too much time on my hands, and not enough brains.
skimmerhead :veryconfu
Oh I could remedy that problem.
Fly back here to Marlin Mountain and weez got lots of stuff to occupy time.
my iq is below room tempeture, the only thing i could do is play with snoop! maybe work on that logan, i'd like to put my hands on it and give it a facelift, a little cosmetic surgery, and a little botox here and there and you won't recognize it. but it won't be this week. i'll work it in to my agenda.
skimmerhead-snoops friend :arrow::cbpour::redneck:
hi Dutchman, on your mill that's 3-phase what do you have to run it on? a rotary phase converter, or a static phase converter? i bought a bridgeport mill and should be delivered this week. i trying to find out which is better to run the mill. the research iv'e done tells me a rotary is better. not having any knowledge on phase converters i thought i'd ask. if i understand correctly a static converter is only connected on one leg and i can't figure out what it does exactly. i like your mill.
skimmerhead :veryconfu
I just love that Index mill of Dutch's. If it had a lever action quill it would be setting in my shop right now... :mrgreen:
Also take a look at a VFD Danny. PM our resident expert on the subject- JIMinPHX.
thanks pat, will do. i want to get the right equipment for it the first time. i hate having to do it twice. should get it this week, but it'll be awhile before i can mess with it, between my wife and my brother it's been a rollercoaster ride to say the least. thanks
skimmerhead
Add another gunsmithing lathe to the list.
some years ago a friend gave me a logan 200 in a tousand pieces. with a few illustrated parts lst i was able to get it back together and cut chips for the first time last night. had to upgrade the motor (original 1/2 hp was dead) to a 1 hp 1960's craftsman and am using a leather that is too short to slack when the cover is up, but we are turning like a mutherplucker. the package included a spare spindle, a 3 jaw 6", 6&8" plates and a variety of parts that flesh out the collection of tooling i have picked up for pennies at junk auctions over the years.
10X24 is a bit short of a bed, but has a pass thru spindle for 25/32", so barrel work is GTG.
skimmerhead,
Are you only going to have one 3 phase machine or are you planning on add others later?
If you know someone in HVAC you can find the caps for a converter pretty cheap. Is your machine 220 or 440?
A friend of mine is running an old 440 3 phase surface grinder in his shop off of 220 single without any problems. I gave him some capacitors and a relay, he picked up a transformer and did the wiring himself. I'm sure I could get his input if you would like it.
I've worked in several shops over the years. Two didn't have three phase service. One had a rotary and always complained about his power bill. The other used a slave motor and it worked pretty good for him.
jim