Recent content by capo602002

Well - found another issue with this little guy. Went to mount it and the bottom of the darn thing is not flat - rocks about 1/16" side-to-side. Now - I could just shim it, easy way, or I can stick it on the mill and mill it flat. Decisions, decisions.

Nope - no paint - just oil it up and go.

Recently found this vise welded to a 1" thk steel plate - covered in grunge. Cut the tack welds and got the vise off. Did not realize just how messed up this was until I cleaned it up. At some point it had broke and then been brazed. Cleaned it up - ground the brazing where it was interfering...

Hi Jack, you might want to consider this: https://www.alumiweld.com/ I used this to repair a center low speed pulley on a South Bend drill press with great results. A chunk was missing and the chances of obtaining another was very low. Built up and filled in the missing chunk and then turned it...

South Bend DP South Bend DP. Purchased for $50 Has the multi speed middle pulley also.