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bgaidan said:
What size L is it? I still have some L chucks and I think an Jacob's Flex collet chuck for a lathe that I no longer own.
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It's an L1

bgaidan said:
I believe 30 taper has the same taper angle as R8, just more of it. I'd be surprised if an Acra was anything other than those, but someone also could have swapped the spindle or had it reground.
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The 30 taper has dogs on the face to take the force, correct?

This spindle doesn't have those. It literally looks like it would be an R9, if that were a thing.
 
Ive wanted one of the small welding helmets for tight spaces for years but the prices always seemed high as hell. Atleast for something you never tried. Found a cheapo Amazon setup to see if it would actually be handy or just a gimmick. ****er works pretty good even for an Amazon cheapo. I still use my Miller for regular use but when this one ****s off will be getting a good brand micro mask for working under ****.
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[486] said:
but a lotta the little M-heads were mt3, iirc
so thought maybe some clone heads adopted it too
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My 1943 M -Head is MT2 and the two other M-Heads that I have helped friends buy and move, one was MT2 also, and the other was B&S#7. Both luckily came with full collet sets, as did mine.
 
AlxJ64 said:
My 1943 M -Head is MT2 and the two other M-Heads that I have helped friends buy and move, one was MT2 also, and the other was B&S#7. Both luckily came with full collet sets, as did mine.
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Same, 40's m head with a mt2 here.
 
PAToyota said:
Body hammers aren't like framing hammers. You don't have a couple. You have a set. Different hammers for different tasks.:smokin:
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There is some truth here, all of them are different, even if the shape is similar the weights are different. I’ll have to try em all before the jury is out I guess
 
Benny said:
It's an L1
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All my chucks are small, but I do have a couple L1 ~10" face/drive plates if you find the need.

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Benny said:
The 30 taper has dogs on the face to take the force, correct?

This spindle doesn't have those. It literally looks like it would be an R9, if that were a thing.
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Correct. I started thinking maybe one of the quick change style holders, like Kwik Switch, but they all have drive dogs.
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Can you feel a key or locking tooth inside the spindle like you would for an R8? Or a tang slot like for MT drive?

If you figure it out and it's some goofy MT or B&S taper, let me know. I have several bins full of random taper holders and adapters that have come with other lots over the years. It's on my list to get them cataloged and listed on ebay or FB. :shaking:
 
all else fails, collets and holders are a somewhat simple lathe project, if you bore and profile in the same setup they're pretty hard to **** up, regarding concentricity
 
billybob_81067 said:
Just checked e-bay to see what one of those L78 ratchets is worth and it looks like they're worth a lot if you find the right sucker to buy it! :laughing:
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arse_sidewards said:
They get worth less every time HF sells a 1" impact. :laughing:
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To me its worth the $20 I paid for it to have it collect dust as decor in my "hipster" machine shop lounge. It can sit on the cabinet behind my leather couch, next to the rather large stainless engine valve that bad zuki gifted me. If someone wants it more than me, they can offer me cash, trades, whatever but the purchase wasn't intended as a flip or to fill a need, but rather than "that is cool, I'll gladly allow the space for it to exist in return of enjoying knowing that it didn't end up scrapped and turned into a Harbor Freight 1" impact".

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"The value of something is only relative to the opinion of the buyer and the seller; so long as they agree, the world be damned." - something my grandfather used to say often.
 
AlxJ64 said:
To me its worth the $20 I paid for it to have it collect dust as decor in my "hipster" machine shop lounge. It can sit on the cabinet behind my leather couch, next to the rather large stainless engine valve that bad zuki gifted me. If someone wants it more than me, they can offer me cash, trades, whatever but the purchase wasn't intended as a flip or to fill a need, but rather than "that is cool, I'll gladly allow the space for it to exist in return of enjoying knowing that it didn't end up scrapped and turned into a Harbor Freight 1" impact".

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"The value of something is only relative to the opinion of the buyer and the seller; so long as they agree, the world be damned." - something my grandfather used to say often.
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I want one of those big as tap handles you got for the same reason.
 
AlxJ64 said:
To me its worth the $20 I paid for it to have it collect dust as decor in my "hipster" machine shop lounge. It can sit on the cabinet behind my leather couch, next to the rather large stainless engine valve that bad zuki gifted me. If someone wants it more than me, they can offer me cash, trades, whatever but the purchase wasn't intended as a flip or to fill a need, but rather than "that is cool, I'll gladly allow the space for it to exist in return of enjoying knowing that it didn't end up scrapped and turned into a Harbor Freight 1" impact".

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"The value of something is only relative to the opinion of the buyer and the seller; so long as they agree, the world be damned." - something my grandfather used to say often.
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I'll trade you a cam you can hang from the rafters and label it an "Overhead Camshaft" :laughing: I'll put one of those in the toolbox eventually for doing big diesel stuff, but I don't need it atm. Glad you saved it from scrap.
 
Not a purchase but something i fabbed up for work. 3-14” forstner bit that I cut the shaft off and extended to a 48” wood drill bit using 3” dom tubing. Had to drill through a 40” tall main carrying beam on a project we’re working on.
 

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woah that's cool as heck
For a while I wondered where they all got them, then I realized that they probably just bring their second prettiest goat over to rasheed the eisenbeater, few hand gestures and inshallahs...

I kinda want to screw around with blacksmithing, mostly for making big pairs of pliers and such
oh and for rough-sizing stock before machining it
 
[486] said:
woah that's cool as heck

For a while I wondered where they all got them, then I realized that they probably just bring their second prettiest goat over to rasheed the eisenbeater, few hand gestures and inshallahs...
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I actually watched one of the Pakistani's videos where they were making the giant snips like these. Then I figured they probably sell them for dirt cheap and checked E-bay, alibaba and all the usual places. Only ones I found on e-bay were vintage ones like I got. These are actually Niagra No 4 shears, and were more than I really wanted to pay, but hell you only live once amirite?

And now that I'm looking for that video I will never find it. It was probably in one of their 2 hour long "amazing manufacturing processes" videos that I was half asleep watching during that bitter cold snap and snow we had...
 
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billybob_81067 said:
I actually watched one of the Pakistani's videos where they were making the giant snips like these. Then I figured they probably sell them for dirt cheap and checked E-bay, alibaba and all the usual places. Only ones I found on e-bay were vintage ones like I got. These are actually Niagra No 4 shears, and were more than I really wanted to pay, but hell you only live once amirite?

And now that I'm looking for that video I will never find it. It was probably in one of their 2 hour long "amazing manufacturing processes" videos that I was half asleep watching during that bitter cold snap and snow we had...
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I can feel my finger tips getting pinched in the picture of those!
 
Polished the Wilton I picked up 2 weekends ago. Replaced the old Prentiss Bulldog that was here on the bench (it got moved to a lighter duty position over in the machine shop side of the garage vs the welding and general abuse side).

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I ended up grinding out and gas brazing (ugly) that crack in the swivel lock seen there. It actually fell apart entirely while in the Ultrasonic cleaner as I think I may have set some heavier parts on it accidently. There was little to nothing holding it together once I saw the cross section of what little bit wasn't already corroded.

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Its smooth and stable and I think will serve me well. The blue will be less obnoxious once it gets dirty. The sample was WAY flatter than this, or so I thought.

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protip on the brazing,
using bare rod and powdered borax for flux improved my brazing by a huge amount
mostly through being able to actually get heat into the rod

Whatever flux they coat the rods with is just no good, and it insulates the rod from the flame
 
[486] said:
protip on the brazing,
using bare rod and powdered borax for flux improved my brazing by a huge amount
mostly through being able to actually get heat into the rod

Whatever flux they coat the rods with is just no good, and it insulates the rod from the flame
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Didn't use coated rods, but rather some solid rods and flux.
I just kept overheating and couldn't get the joint to stay put and was fearful of it brazing to the table or falling apart again. This is the first time I have gas brazed since I was 17... I am 40 now.
 
cj3a said:
486, do you just use the soap for flux?
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20 mule team powdered borax, from the laundry detergent isle
don't get any kind of scented junk

heat the part a little bit, just before it turns straw colored and dust it on there generously
you can carry it over to the part on the rod too, by heating the rod and dunking it in the powder, but that's more of a hassle than grabbing a good three finger pinch and dropping it on there while it's hot
 
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