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Re: BlackFriday Hobby mags sale
Yeah, and those guys push small machines to the outer limited, too! I've got electronic copies of a bunch of the early ME. But I'm not a model train guy. Dad fixed that for me when I was young. Model
By Bill in OKC too · #117079 ·
Re: BlackFriday Hobby mags sale
Looking for general techniques and projects. Mostly to use as starting points for my own designs. I decided that learning by YouTube wasn't the best way to go so I took a couple manual machining
By David Matthews · #117078 ·
Re: BlackFriday Hobby mags sale
I bought both those mags from the same publisher for a while & out of the 35-40 I have in a stack I never found anything that even remotely interested me . I subscribe to Model Engineer's Workshop , I
By mike allen · #117077 ·
Re: BlackFriday Hobby mags sale
Thanks, Mike! I needed to see that right now!? One more thing. Maybe I need to buy a lottery ticke after all... :) Bill in OKC? William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) Aphorisms to live by:Good
By Bill in OKC too · #117076 ·
Re: BlackFriday Hobby mags sale
If you're looking for a specific project, or type of project, none of the magazines are really that good unless you just uck out. If you want to learn about new or different techniques, any of them
By Bill in OKC too · #117075 ·
Re: BlackFriday Hobby mags sale
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and am letting it drop. Not a lot in it and what is there often isn't well written. I used to subscribe and it was pretty good back then. I see Model
By David Matthews · #117074 ·
BlackFriday Hobby mags sale
I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be
By mike allen · #117073 ·
Re: history of my lathe
There's a bunch of South Bends over in England & I know of at least one company that was licensed to build South Bends in Australia . I'm sure there's more .
By mike allen · #117072 ·
Re: history of my lathe
That is interesting. I was thinking about people making parts at home in the U.S. It would make more sense for that to happen in the UK where a large factory is going to be a target for the Germans.
By Mike Poore · #117071 ·
QC42 FS on FB
FYI, $300 in Cresson, TX https://www.facebook.com/share/1H1hVCz1KL/?mibextid=79PoIi no connection Jim Hudson
By wa5jat/Jim Hudson · #117070 ·
Re: history of my lathe
At least 30,000 Harleys were sent over & I believe the bulk of those ended up in Russia . There's a company in the Netherlands? ( I think that's where it is? ) that is still selling OEM HArley parts
By mike allen · #117069 ·
Re: history of my lathe
Well, there is this account... https://solentaviatrix.wordpress.com/tag/lend-lease-lathe/ -Wally
By I_am Wally · #117068 ·
Re: history of my lathe
The Myford M7-7 was not introduced until 1947 so England. I think that is an interesting data point in this discussion Steve
By Steve Bergeron · #117067 ·
Re: history of my lathe
I recall lend/lease was already well underway by spring of 1941. We entered the war by the end of 1941. Lend/lease began, I think, in the late 30's when the UK entered the war. By 1942, we were
By Mike Poore · #117066 ·
Re: todays silly question.
The knob is pinned to the shaftand will freewheel when not engaged. -- *I Love Anything That Turns Money Into Noise*
By Dollar Bill · #117065 ·
todays silly question.
im trying to line up the gear on the cross feed screw with the power feed mechanism in the apron. ? The knob you pull out to engage power feed for the cross feed should the knob turn regardless of
By hedgesben@... · #117064 ·
Re: history of my lathe
Here's a link to an interest ca. 1942 article about innovative uses of small machine tools in the war effort in the United States. I suspect the same motivations were in play in the
By lfelton · #117063 ·
Re: history of my lathe
Atlas lathes (and their other machine tools) were promoted during WW-II for defense production. ?Simple parts, in a home workshop, let folks contribute to the War Effort and make some money too. ?In
By charles brady · #117062 ·
Re: history of my lathe
The best historical resource I know of is Atlas Lathe ( http://www.lathes.co.uk/atlas/ ) Raymond
By mondosmetals · #117061 ·
history of my lathe
It would be interesting to try and find out the history of my lathe and how it came to be in the uk.? It appears that it was made end of april /beginning of may 1941 (going by the dates on the
By hedgesben@... · #117060 ·