Recent content by BigAl96

Almost back together! Need to get a couple link belts, the ones it came with are worse for wear. Dont judge the mess of a garage behind it. I spent the last week replacing the ac system in the house

200/ea idk if he is, but I'd ship it at cost

He's got a couple slow speed pulley and all kinds of other stuff for these things. I told him he should post them for sale here.

200 each other all 3 for 500

I just asked, I will let you know

Also, not sure if anyone here needs one, but someone near me has 3 of the pulley guards for sale.

Went ahead and built the hillbilly lathe today and polished the column. Turned out pretty good, there's some minor tooling marks and dings that won't come out but it looks more than good enough for a tool to be used

It's a bit light. The original 1/2hp drew 7.8 @ 115, so the draw is a little less than double. I'd assume the new motor makes around 3/4 to 1 hp

They should rate them by breed. My belt grinder has 1.5 clydesdales, whereas my shop vac has 6 ponies.

I was kindof under this same impression, also taking into account that the bits will typically be the "weak link". Im planning on buying a nice x y clamp/table for it once I'm all finished with the resto.

Actually, I was able to get all 3 off pretty easily, the North American Aviation one is brok the drive screws off of though. I'm debating leaving it off or drilling new holes to put it back on

Here are some pictures of the labels on it. I'm going to try to pull them off with the tricks here.

Damn, that looks great. My original badges are in really good shape though so I don't know if all that is needed. I'm leaning towards hammered bronze or hammered charcoal color. How did you get the old plate off and rivet on the new one, it doesn't appear the rivets on the headstock go all the...

So I've got the entire press disassembled, the cast iron parts (minus the head because I don't want to damage the labels) are in an electrolysis bath. After replacing the start capacitor, I found that the motor that came with it needed bearings and other work. I just picked up a 1.5hp dayton 56...

Well ****, I got it home and one thing led to another, now it's completely torn apart on my work bench. I'm going to build a "poor man's lathe" with casters and a drill to polish the column, along with polishing all the hardware and handles, painting the covers and tables, and making knobs for...