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I apologize as I'm sure this is a common question, I read several posts similar to mine just under here as I'm posting. I have very literally been searching the internet for about 6 months (off and on) trying to find my solution with no luck. My particular motor appears, to me at least, to be...

Obviously you're far from it still, and you'll be painting so I'm not sure if it will be a concern at all, but on my old cast stuff if I don't paint the underside or inside areas of castings but I'm concerned about rust I use this product from Amsoil...

Ditto! Thanks!!!

Nicely done! I swear left hand thread never even crossed my mind, but it makes sense. The heating/freezing method is a very common theme you'll learn working with bearings. Shrink one, expand the other. I had a friend who used to love to tell me stories of when he was in the military...

I must admit that none of my big hauls come in this area. I go visit my folks and poach their territory - that's where all the "picking" is good! I finally got the lathe up and running a couple months back, still little details to be ironed out but that's with everything! I put some pics in my...

Ridgid has a known, well-documented problem with the chuck on their 12V drills. This kind: https://www.ridgid.com/us/en/12v-2speed-drill-driver-and-impact-driver-combo The older version of those were great, but the last few years they have a different chuck and they slip like crazy...

I knew you guys would know! Apparently it's on the rare side since, even with the name, I can't find much info on them on the net. This one is complete, as far as I can tell, with all the bits in the handle. It was a little rusty when I got it, but a dip in evapo-rust and some ATF to lube it...

Like a few others mentioned, I have the rat but without the amber handle... Always on the lookout though, so thanks for sharing. ;)

The idea of adding heat is to expand the case around the bearing, so you should be heating the case more than the bearing (as much as possible). It sounds like you trashed the bearing, so it won't matter much now as it needs replacement. A bearing should rotate SMOOTHLY. Any grit, drag, etc...

I just had a massive tool haul and there were a lot of misc unusual pieces mixed in with what I got. This is, undoubtedly, the first of a few posts I'll be putting up in the next few weeks as I find time to go through the stuff, snap pics, and then ask for help if I can't find info on the net...

Hey guys! Been so busy lately I haven't had time to stop in, but I wanted to post this little find I got a couple weekends ago. 1950's era Union wooden machinist box. I put some pictures up in my albums so you can see more about it here...

Been so busy lately I haven't had time to drop by here and see all of everyone's new goodies. I did find time to go visit my folks a couple weekends ago and hit some estate sales while I was there. I brought home my usual ridiculous haul, but it's hard to argue because when I tallied it all up...

Sure is hard to see things in pictures. Every time I'm faced with something like this I realize the limits of not holding an item in your hands. As best as I can tell I'm thinking press fit. I'd invite a little heat to the casting inside and/or the part you're twisting on. Doesn't have to be...

I had my hands on a box just like that today, it was a PowrKraft. I realize that doesn't tell you too much because the PK would have been made by someone else also, but perhaps that might get you a bit further down the road.

You guys had some incredible hauls! I did some digging today myself and I have sights on a BIG score for tomorrow (hopefully) but my phone just deleted all my pictures so I'm trying to recover as we speak... Great scores all - hopefully I'll have an awesome post myself tomorrow. ;)

I had to laugh because when I saw this thread I thought "let's go see who has a post count of 1 or 2 today..." You'd think at least one of them would just be forthright and say "who wants to buy it?" :lol:

Thanks for all the kudos guys. I was actually planning to upload more pictures tonight of my drill press restoration and the 2 lathes and my phone decided to delete ALL the pictures I took of my newest lathe going back to when I bought it last year. This included all the tear down, fixing, and...

I've never had the pleasure of holding one of those myself so I don't know what the plastic is like. What I do know is that I often use 3M epoxies to repair plastic items and/or build up new material. The stuff isn't cheap, but I consider it equivalent to "making new plastic" as it comes out...

I absolutely don't want to wade into the middle of this ******* contest, but I do want to add one thought that perhaps wasn't considered, because it wasn't mentioned here. Let's say I decide to run PVC all over ignoring ratings and possible fractions of a percent of failure chance and all the...

My absolute favorite part is the night light built into the switch. :lol: Very cool! I clicked on this thread to make a suggestion and after reading a few pages to see if it was mentioned I realized this was 24 pages long. If I'm repeating this, my apologies. My next door neighbor is a member...