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- Mar 23, 2014
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- 33
For many years I've kept my eye out for that old Bridgeport Mill or South Bend Lathe just sitting around unused to be snapped up by me for $300. Didn't ever happen though, so my machinist hobby and education has gone without fulfillment. While my home shop has grown and developed in other areas, my inability to do any real "machine" work has been a hole in an otherwise pretty complete assembly of useful tools and capabilities.
I made a decision...get what tools I could and learn...maybe on a small scale. Good o'l HF helped and sent 25% off cupons and put their 7x10 lathe and 44991 mini-mill on sale. For a small investment I have some basic, if not spectacular equipment to get into this endeavor. Soon I discovered the "little Machine Shop" online and had ordered a few things I "knew" I would need. An old steel cabinet on rollers that I had saved from a heavy copier 30 years ago and a home made partial enclosure became the new mini-machine shop on wheels...
At this point I'm just beginning to learn how the machines operate, what other tools and materials I need to actually build something. While watching the how to video for the LMS Oscillating Cylander Engine I realized how little I really knew about the tools and methods. By the time the video was over I had a whole list of things to get...and that's just for this first simple project. So here we go...
I made a decision...get what tools I could and learn...maybe on a small scale. Good o'l HF helped and sent 25% off cupons and put their 7x10 lathe and 44991 mini-mill on sale. For a small investment I have some basic, if not spectacular equipment to get into this endeavor. Soon I discovered the "little Machine Shop" online and had ordered a few things I "knew" I would need. An old steel cabinet on rollers that I had saved from a heavy copier 30 years ago and a home made partial enclosure became the new mini-machine shop on wheels...
At this point I'm just beginning to learn how the machines operate, what other tools and materials I need to actually build something. While watching the how to video for the LMS Oscillating Cylander Engine I realized how little I really knew about the tools and methods. By the time the video was over I had a whole list of things to get...and that's just for this first simple project. So here we go...