Don't press your luck!
 Sure, you know how to work on old trucks. Or maybe you're just starting in the hobby. Either way, safety is best learned through OPM (Other Peoples' Mistakes), not OJT!
Either as newly discovered wisdom, or a refresher, please read this article and live safely with your old truck!
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Had to do some MILLING with lathe today and had to dwell on subject for a while. Did find I'd let the cross feed get a bit sloppy. The big mill is down for a new reservoir, pump, and lube lines. Needed a offset distributor drive button for a flat head Ford. The result won't win a ribbon at the crafts fair but it works.
Evan
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The cross feed nut on my Atlas/Craftsman 12" lathe has developed quite a bit of slack. That's not surprising, since I have a tendency to use the machine for projects far beyond its design capabilities. I just ordered a new replacement from a supplier on Ebay who is making replacement parts for the old machines. As soon as I get that 3 phase generator you practically gave me wired up and running, I've got a Bridgeport mill stashed away that will take over most of the heavy duty milling jobs my home brewed milling attachment has to do now. Nothing beats having the right tool for the job, even if being able to cobble up a suitable substitute comes in handy at times!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!"
Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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'Bolter
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Jerry,
Once you get the Bridgeport running make a mount jig for boring wheel/master cylinders to be sleeved. Much quicker and easier than doing on a lathe.
Evan
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I use a piece of flat plate welded to a pipe to hold the cylinder, and offset the jaws of a 4 jaw chuck to center it. A #2 Morse taper in the tailstock with a piece of round stock the inside diameter of the wheel cylinder or the MC threaded onto it holds it centered and straight while I adjust the chuck. Once the fixture is on center, multiple cylinders can be machined off the same fixture. A tool post grinder on the compound rest does the finish diameter and polishing, or I can rough out the sleeve ID and use my Sunnen hone for that operation.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!"
Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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Joined: Nov 1995
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I wish I knew what you guys know ... sigh ...
John
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
Will Rogers
'49 Chevrolet 3804
'73 IH 1310 Dump
'14 Ford E-350 4x4 (Quigley)
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No time like the present to start learning- - - - -none of us were born with the ability!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!"
Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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I just acquired another piece of equipment- - - -a surface grinder that should have enough table travel to mill stovebolt cylinder heads- - - -once I make a holding fixture to mount to the magnetic base. I'm headed to central North Carolina to pick it up this weekend.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!"
Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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Bubba - Curmudgeon
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Where in Central NC, Jerry?
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Kenly NC- - - -looks like it's right on I-40 according to Mapquest. I'll probably get there sometime late Friday night, unless I have to stop overnight before I get there.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!"
Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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