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  1. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    We've got cooling water lines going to our journal bearings. The cooling water is hard piped into the tailrace of the powerhouse, but also travel through the sump pit that collects the shaft seal water. This RTD will drop into a pipe in the sump pit and monitor sump water temperature.
  2. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    It's a sump pit cooling water probe. With the new regs, we have to install cooling water temp probes on the incoming, outgoing and sump pit.
  3. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    With the RTD
  4. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Built an rtd sleeve for work yesterday.
  5. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Had a little time this week so I was able to get the tailstock DRO installed.
  6. Stevendavis

    Scale BUSA Super Cub

    Glad your getting some use out of the tap guide!! Plane is looking great so far! I really need to get back on mine.
  7. Stevendavis

    For Sale Extreme Flight Yak 54 For Sale

    It's sold!
  8. Stevendavis

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Got the nav lights in and covers on!
  9. Stevendavis

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    New project on the table.
  10. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Made some sleeves for my boring bars. Still need to make a couple more. so far so good. For the larger bar, I had to run set screws down through the top of the holder. Took me a the better part of an hour just to tap those out due to the hardness of the metal.
  11. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    The saw has been working great as well.
  12. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Hey Tony, It's a spider for the lathe spindle. I have to make a bunch of sheer pins for work and the stock is 3' long. This will let me use the 3' stock without having to cut it down to work with.
  13. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Yep, I thought it was for the purchase??
  14. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    A few pics of the first project. I have some 2 1/4" brass stock I used.
  15. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    So far so good. I tightened up the gibs just a touch and leveled it out. One thing I wasn't aware of was that the chip pan bottom is elevated. I had to put some 3/4" boards under the chip pan so the lathe was on solid ground. The spindle also doesn't have any extra meat for a screw on type...
  16. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Had a snafoo right off the bat. Precision Matthews has been really good with getting things right. The carrage moved just fine for a couple of runs back and forth by hand, then it just started to free spin. I took a peak at the parts break down and figured something was wrong with the gear...
  17. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Something showed up!
  18. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Wish I had the room for a larger used lath and mill.
  19. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    I'm "working" on it!!
  20. Stevendavis

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    It's on it's way. Tracking shows it should arrive on the 10th! I still need to pick up the DRO scales for the lathe. I spent all my lunch money on final payment. :adore:
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