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After de-burring and cleaning the new tang was tested. The live center locked in place and ejected smoothly with the tail stick quill turned in. All cleaned up. Ready for service. Test. Thanks for looking!

I made the first part using the new Atlas 5C speed chuck. When I upgraded from a 1440 to a 1640 lathe, the tailstock on the new machine came with a size up 4M/T. I was able to adapt most of my nicer drill chucks using a sleeve adaptor. I did purchase a couple of nice 4 M/T live centers (LC)...

Like others have mentioned, you need a hot plug weld like Moosefire's photo. You should be able to achieve this with your flux core baby mig. This technique has yet to fail me. Use anti-seize when you reassemble.

That front bumper turned out beautiful. The Dmax is almost broken in :)

Re: From losing everything to being cash-poor and shop-rich in "only" five years! Wow! after a tragic event like the shop fire, things can only get better. keep on keeping on Geddy!

My Christmas present arrived two days after shoulder surgery so I wasn't able to play with it until now. With the larger Bison chuck out of the way (with the help of the saddle), I was able to tear down the back plate and clean off the cosmoline and set the 7/8" cam lock pins. I used a touch of...

I have three 18' garage doors without the rain stop and absolutely hate it during the monsoon season. The shop has four garage doors with a 1.5" lip and have yet to get rain in.

Since you have a tap and soon die, you should come out fine restoring those threads.

Awesome progress Mike, I like to modular wings.

Converting the task light to LED and adding a LED light strip really helps a bunch. The best part is no heat generated like the old halogen bulbs.

Hi Matt, I would have never used this material had I not had several remnants leftover. It's slick as hell on the ways and soft enough for that application. Your 15" chuck would require a corn feed monster to hand jack into place. I have a vertical I beam between the Lagun mill and the lathe...

Thanks fellas, It sure nice to sneak some shop time in and make it count. The saddle takes the drop risk out of the picture. Need to make another one for the 10" 4 jaw.

Thanks Dan, It will be nice not having to handle a 60# fingerless bowling ball :)

Sure is!

No details on the aluminum standoffs but basically a 6' piece of 1/2" aluminum was chucked up with the Spyder supporting the excess stick out. Using the Spyder really cuts down on any waste. Face, drill, tap, chamfer and part. Rinse and repeat for the three base boards and five for the saddle...

With seven weeks post surgery, my shoulder felt well enough to do some lite machining. Some time ago I built some tree planters with integrated bench seating. I had used engineered composite plastic 2x4 boards. These look similar to actual wood and share irregularities in dimensions like wood...

^^^^^What Cam said^^^^^

Looking great Mike! Nice design and execution.

Cool build. Add a speed knob to your wheel to make it more efficient.

Outstanding work and great story. The time spent together teaching, learning and sharing time is priceless.