Recent content by baldredhead

Hi all I'm trying to get this machine up and running and having very little luck finding any reference to it at all on ye olde information superhighway The irontite.com website, which apparently owns kwik-way now, does not have any reference to it in their obsolete manuals search. Honestly I...

there are lots of options that work with your phone too, i don't have one but given how integrated smartphones are becoming into everything i think for my purposes which would be similar to JOE.G, a stand alone unit from harbor freight etc, isn't even in the running. using a phone will...

i agree on the heat treating, whatever they were trying to do they didn't accomplish. that the original shaft doesn't match the new one speaks to that fact. the phrase "lost in translation" i suspect, applies perfectly here. i have a fried with a big lathe that would make quick work of fixing...

got it, thanks!

i have a purple gun i haven't jumped into using yet... so the cleaning thing, do you clean it even if you're going to immediately spray more? sounds like a dumb question now that i type it out

the plot thickens... the new "dayton" part arrived and indeed it is dimensionally idetical to the "craftsman" piece however, the heat treating is even more *******! there is a stress relief groove between the bearing and splines, thoug the spline root is still in the bearing area. the...

building a lathe will become your new hobby, and you'll be the only one able to service it, get parts for it, and when you've outgrown it you'll be the only one that wants(ed) it. save more money, and get good at educating yourself on what a lathe is worth in your area. check out used...

autospell on phone + in a hurry

the broach marks taper out, so i'm thinking they aren't broach marks but gear cutter type machining marks, and someone set the depth wrong. to their credit, the slip fit on the splines is quite nice. you can see them tapering out in this picture, as well as the Not Deep Enough stress relief...

is the belt old and stiff?

if it fails again, i'll have my own little garage shop set up by then (knock on wood) and make my own. i have some old, stale cheese that is probably better material and will machine easy. the guy i got it off of indicated that the original owner ran it pretty hard, and probably didn't take...

if it's powdered, whoever designed the part needs more training. if you're machining the splines after a powder processed part you're going it wrong, and you don't get the root of the spline into the bearing surface unless your're post machining. anyway, the bearings are going to be replaced...

i don't think it's the same saw, i got it off a guy that got it from someone he knew and i do have the table but didn't reassemble it from the disassembled "transport" scenario. yet. still, if you want rid of the table and fence i could use them. i don't have a fence for this thing. my...

File bit into the surface and the core of the shaft so it doesn't appear.to be hardened at all You can see in the second.picture where the spline continues into the bearing surface, wi.wonder if this is where the problem actually starts and this was a fatigue problem exposed.by an unlucky gear...

The base is a strong, selectable, magnet. Turn it on and it's really really stable, as long as your work piece is magnetic at least