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Yes, fresh jaws. Just haven't had much time to play with it lately. Paramo is a No.1. Picked it up for free, just had to clean it up.

I've got ya covered.

I snagged a Ryobi 18v Chainsaw for $15. Best tool purchase I've made I think, couple it with a high amp-hour battery and it RIPS through everything. Hard to believe, but until you see it, you can't comprehend it. Had my buddy sharpen up the chain and it's amazing. Purchased the combo kit a few...

What width wheels? Air canon will do the trick the bulk of the time.

Monte, those are definitly very nice. I would love to have a set of those for my use at work, but I'm limited to the Harbor Freight set due to it being an open machine shop. Everyone borrows every ones tools. No one seems to understand you don't need to wail on a transfer punch with a 32oz...

Looks great. How much were you into the scales for the 3 axis?

********, that's some good jaw fitment for a first timer. I foresee a ton of filing in my near future. Just need to clean up the jaws, finish the last cuts for the pipe jaw, do another coat of paint and harden the jaws.

No! Leave my baby alone! haha. I've got the build guide and exploded diagram of that head somewhere, when I switch all my stuff over I'll try and remember to post it.

series 2 is a 2J head right? Parts are easy to find, just need more specifics on what you need. I restored a 1943 Bridgeport M-head with a 9x32 table without any trouble, even the small stuff was easy and cheap. I just reformatted my computer and haven't uploaded my bookmarks, but there's one...

You have the seam when you use ERW, I mainly use seamless 4130 for anything that needs some merit. Not to mention it's free through work.. Just use the plane of bend bracket so it will stick with you, AND gives you an accurate degree of rotation instead of eying the seam.

Plane of bend brackets are so you can set your baseline if you're bending in multiple planes, i.e. do one bend, rotate 90 degrees, bend, rotate, bend, rotate, etc. Here's a picture.

Hell, you jumped in buying everything right off the bat! You'll want 2 digital protractors (about 1.5"x1.5" square with magnets, longer ones are hard to fit on the tube at certain bends), 2 plane of bend brackets, and get some good visible yellow paint markers, or RED sharpies (the red ones...

Is that a Record No.634 Combination vise? You mean I'm not the only one with a 634 on here? :shocking:

Started bending up a bull bar/winch tray for my 2011 Ram 1500. Have a nifty little program to lay out all my bend points, rotations, cut length, etc. Just lay it all out, then keep feeding it pipe until you've got something. :rocker:

I'll agree with this. I was always **** at math, but knew what I was doing on a machine. I'm a manual machinist now and rarely see much math since the bulk of it boring/facing/drilling, and what isn't laid out on the drawing can easily be solved with the DRO. If I was great with math, I...

I had straight simple green and it froze during the winter, granted it was -38 a few times this winter. Still worked decent after everything thawed out, but I flushed it out for Varsol. It's a steel housing with a plastic pump, no different than any other parts washer I've seen. Slap some...

Looks like a Record No.6. I use the hell out of mine every day and it never complains. Clean it up nice, and it will outlast the both of you. Replacement jaws are still available. I would advise making a custom handle, 13" is the perfect length.

We need more pictures. No excuses! :shocking:

I've got 3 12-point 1" 3/4" drive sockets, all old as ****, bunch of odd sizes in the set too. 1" drive is a tough find.

Not quite the same, but something I use often at work for resurfacing gasket faces on valves, flanges, casting imperfections, etc, is this stuff called "PC-11" metal epoxy. I've re-coated and machined the insides of 300+ PSI steam pumps that run 24/7 at full capacity for months on end and...