homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: Spam comments
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2011/04/spam-comments.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Coming up soon is an article of an oil filtercrusher, stay tuned! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Multifix type tool holder info. Born 1985, a tool and die maker and a locksport fanatic who loves to figure out ways to make different things :). View my complete profile.
homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: January 2011
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Monday, January 24, 2011. Stand for the blasting cabinet. I welded the stand from 25 x 25 x 2 square steel tube, better known as "furniture tube" in here. I used a MIG welder because that was available and it is quick to use. I got the material from Rautasoini. To give the stand good stability and finish I bought four pl...
homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: Oil filter crusher
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2011/06/oil-filter-crusher.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. I had thought of using hydraulics and investigated on the price to build a hydraulic pump unit and a some sort of press frame from steel, but the price would have been in the 500 EUR and up category just for the hydraulic parts. I talked about this idea at work and one guy suggested using a h...
homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: June 2009
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Sunday, June 21, 2009. And it is not even close to fun to have to go quickly to emergency reception at your hospital because you have a metal chip sticking out of your eye. And the worst case is that it is steel: It starts to rust immediately in the eye fluids and that will cause you a nice infection! What is proper clot...
homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: October 2009
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Saturday, October 17, 2009. Overview of my workshop. This is the mill and table for it. I made the table from scrap found in a dumpster, only had to buy few parts from a hardware store. The top is coated with thick laquer layer and provides an easy way to cleanup and it also prevents oil from penetrating to the p...The d...
homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: February 2010
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Sunday, February 14, 2010. Measuring and layout tools. Here I'll show you the tools that I have bought till this day and give some details about them. Most of the tools have been bought from eBay. Because I'm sure I get to hear these "chinese imports are no good" and whatever, I will say this: They are far good enough fo...
homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: November 2010
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Sunday, November 21, 2010. Heat treatment oven, part I. From a knife forum. The maximum temperature limit will be 1300 Celsius, but I'm only going to need about 900 degrees Celsius at any given time, as I'm mainly going to use silver steel and a tool steel called Arne (W. 1.2510) or K460. The connection wires from the el...
homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com
Home Shop Machinist: Changing mains plug
http://homeshopmachinist.blogspot.com/2011/02/changing-mains-plug.html
Machining with mini mill, mini lathe and other small power tools and teaching you to work with metal, plastic and to guide in projects. By donating you support this blog and my wishlist. Sunday, February 27, 2011. The SIEG C4 lathe that I bought from Axminster Tool Centre works on 230 VAC 50 Hz mains voltage, the same we have here in Finland. The only problem was that the power plug in the end of the cord was some British type. And not the kind of we use. First I opened the screw for the grounding wire (...