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This machine, with a fairly large part on it... Once you (me..) would start the chuck, approach the part with a cutting tool, start taking a rather large depth of cut, turn the coolant on... At that point, the machine makes its own weather happen. Coolant bouncing off the chuck jaws (and the...

The one I ran at work was 72" swing, about 50 hp.. Just a sweetheart. I can't imagine having a machine that size at home..

My biggest quest in life was to own a VTL, at home, (Vertical Turret Lathe) with some size to it... At least 36" swing.. My plans never came to fruition, but a guy can dream.... Something close to what I ran at the Company, so many years ago...

There's no substitute for some "snort" that the Turret lathes had to offer. Plenty of deep cuts, with carbide tooling. The machines were three-phase, but I made them work on 220 v. At the farm .

I have my Dad's Atlas/Craftsman lathe and it is very dear to my heart. I've only broke the lantern tool post, once. I welded things back together, and everything's cool. It is no match to my (4) Warner Swasey turret lathes.... Plenty of giddy-up up and horsepower for roughing cuts... Love...

Yea, I'm at about page 45 or so. I've lost track on my way, (computer reboot) and was waiting for you to respond, so I could find you in "new Posts". I'm back in, now. Love yer stories, your research, everything you write about. I have a fond feeling about the Chevy 235 "Stovebolt" engine...

Everyone looks at a lathe (to buy) that can do absolutely everything.... And that's the one to buy.... If that lathe can't do, exactly one thing correctly, nobody wants that lathe... What about the multitude of everything ELSE that lathe is capable of doing?? Nobody thinks that way... Nobody...

Squakum, don't sell yourself short... I've had to deal with my own machines, as I couldn't afford the biggest and the best machines out there. In most cases, my many machines are at least 100 years old. I learned what it took to make an accurate part on a 100 year old machine. More than...

Nowadays, a person could add the anti-freeze, let the car run long enough for the thermostat to open (which she did) but apply some vacuum to the system, to try to get some of the liquid into the never-never regions in the system... I didn't know about that "trick" at the time. Air compresses...

Ha, I love the pics of the TP Cruiser... I have a friend that had a PT Cruiser. I loved those cars. She affectionally named her car, Penelope. I never did get a ride in her car, but always liked the looks of them. My friend called me, one day, and asked for advice. She had just replaced...

It wasn't supposed to be that way, with the styrofoam cooler, for our trip. See, Dad made his own trailer for this trip. A homemade trailer. Since we were a musical family, and once the accordions, guitars, amplifiers were loaded into the trailer, and then Mom started loading cardboard boxes...

Where did Mom keep the eggs and bacon on our trip, out West?? In the styrofoam cooler, of course, in the back seat of our Caprice, between the three of us kids... Drove me nuts... Hated that squeak, for many thousand miles... But breakfast and lunch was worth it, in every case. Hated that...

Nicely done, my friend... I know that I missed out on a lot on that trip. Especially Yellowstone. We didn't do any amount of hiking, or anything like it, especially going further than a couple hundred feet from our car. Yellowstone is huge, in my mind. I'd like to do better, give it the...

Squankum, our family went to Oregon and Washington State to visit relatives on Mom's side. That was in 1977, so that would put me at about the age of 11. We went to Mount Rainier, one day. Mom's uncle took Dad and I to Puget Sound, to do some fishing. The only thing we caught was foot long...

Bob, hope you're doing ok with your issues. See what I did there? I just called you Bob Hope... That comma becomes somewhat important in my story... Sorry about that. I've been reading Squankums "Underground Lair" and am on about the 24th page of about 80 pages or so. What an incredible...

Bob, that's a great idea, joining a group to go traveling. Mom did just that after Dad's passing. I should ask her about it. She was still living in Duluth, and the group made plans for a smaller bus ride to St. Paul, to the Greyhound Bus depot, then she went on from there. They went to...

Bob, I think often about my chances of taking Cheryl abroad, to go see Paris, France. You tried to talk me out of getting the tractor, instead. I really like the tractor, and now that Cheryl has passed, I really think about my decisions. After her passing, I really don't feel like going...

Darn...I thought I was "THEE" special customer and only "I" received emails like that from them... All kidding aside, I really like shopping there, and can see that they have really stepped up their game over the past few years. As I clean up the house, and get rid of some "extra" stuff, I ran...

That's exact where I went the other day. It's funny that I was receiving a text on my way there. I was less than a block away at that point. Once there, i bought what I did, and the cashier searched for a coupon on his personal cell phone . Once there, the cashier said to me that my itc was...

Speaking about Utica tools... I once went to Duluth for the weekend, and had a friend/co-worker with a boat in a very local marina He asked me for my help. His boat had two Chevy 350 engines, side by side, in the back of the boat and was having trouble doing an oil change on them. My task...