I think for centering work on the lathe and tramming on a mill an analog dial indicator is actually better because it shows movement much more intuitively, you just see which way the needle is spinning you don't think about numbers. I also love not worrying about batteries, I have a great pair of an...

if you assume the opening is 2" (its most likely a bit bigger) then you have over 3 in^2 of area being acted on, at 70 psi thats over 200 lbs that your bolt or whatever would have to support. Even with enough force the valves are designed to seal with back pressure so it may behave like cammyd32's. ...

Solidworks and Autodesk inventor are both pretty good programs, if you get a .edu email from college then you can download autodesk inventor free for 3 years. For me the best way to practice was just grab a set of calipers and cad up random objects around my room. If theres something you cant figure...

I have the battery it is two pined a connector is necessary to go between the battery and camera.

Hey guys got a quick question that is out of my electrical league so Im asking here. I recently got an old camera which parts are no longer available for and they only come up very rarely on ebay. My problem I do not have the correct power cord, I have the battery and the camera but no cord. The iss...

JSR could you modify the thread cutting attachment on your lathe to get an incredibly low threads per inch? This could either work for directly boring a rifles or turning grooves into the wax.

I would go for golfball because they're the cheapest. Some one did build softball combustion, Ill see if I can find the link, baseball is probably do-able but youll get better speed, penetration and distance from a golfball.

heres the softball combustion

Well the drawing is to scale right? So you only need one

im converting right now, how long from end to end?

just grab this whole mill for less than the price of a conversion

http://www.ebay.com/itm/160677962501?ss ... 1423.l2649

mill all the mounts haha, I saw someone on youtube, who made cheapish mounts by hand with an easy to machine plastic. Then used the cnc to make nice time consuming aluminum ones.

That would be awesome you should log your conversion so others (namely me) can learn what to do and what not to. Have you looked at getting sherline mounts but sourcing your own steppers and drivers?

Do it!! (then add a 3d head)

ive been looking into this a fair amount and so far the most promising homemade 3d printer is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPmP0u1HuUM Im not sure of the exact process that is used but as you can see it achieves some incredible resolution and no support structure of anykind is needed. Tha...

haha thats because lemaudit has been brainwashing you, soon youll be a sherline salesman too.