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Fixed it for you. I agree with everything else in the post. In the past I had a 10" planer/thicknesser and a table saw and a full size workbench and a lathe and a drill press in a workshop that was 2,9 by 5,5 metres. It worked but I had to think a lot and rearrange it several times before it...

Now I see The inferrior quality snap ring has walked out of it's groove too many times and chewed up the groove so the whole shaft now walks in and ut instead of tilting the blade. Correct? I come to think of two ways of fixing that: 1. Turn the groove to a suitable with for two or three snap...

I have forged two custom scrapers for corrugated white metal bearings from worn out files. They work great. Ordinary machinist's scrapers can easily be made from worn out flat files. Just grind away the teeth and sharpen the end correctly. I have made skews for wood turning from worn out flat...

When people do such "repairs" they usually cause more problem than they solve.

I use secondhand Sandvik 208 tennon saws which I have sharpened and fitted with more ergonomic handles. That is one of the cheapest ways of getting a tennon saw theese days. There are two problems as far as I can see 1. Most tennon saws sold are not resharpenable. Many of them are right from...

Back before the war one could get files and rasps recut locally in many places.

A friend regularly turns them for me at the same rate as I find old cramps with the swivel foot missing. A very simple job for enyone who has a metal lathe. They seem to come in hundredtwentyeleven different sizes so the chance of finding something ready made that will fit is small indeed.

I can probably make do without the last shipment and make what is missing.......

What do you say about this: To me it looks like an accident waiting to happen and judging by the headline he is attempting to teach it..........

To me it is not as much about satisfaction as it is about avoiding drowing a quagmire of debth. In strict economical terms it is way better to spend 300 hours of weekends and evenings and days off and days uneployed rebuilding a wreck of a machine into a prime quality industrial machine than to...

Concerning the bandsaw that started the thread: To me it looks perfectly rebuildable. Myself I have resurrected worse wrecks than that with the resulting machines becoming equal to new professional grade machines. My bandsaw was not much better than that when I bought it. In that case I would...

This was pretty much my point though I didn't make it clear enough. There are certain machines that add so much efficiency thereby allowing one man to make what three men made with hand tools in the past that they are worth spending money on. Usually rather basic machines. Tabe saw and planer...

It is possible to make very good products using only the most basic tools if you have time enough to first get skilled with those tools and then apply that skill plus even more time to the product. If you think your products turn out mediocre even with a good set of hand tools it is either down...

If that lathe is not worth salvaging it is because you have made up your mind beforehand and decided not to take in any facts. In Finland that lathe as is and where is would sell for around 1000 euros and the seller would be happy to get it out of there on his own. Personally I would not...

We need some more facts! What is the application? How were the bearings lubricated originally? What type of bearings. Imperial bearings are not interchangeable with metric. If the dimensions are the same someone somewhere has been pulling someone elses leg at some point and either the old...

Most induction motors have a standard frame size so they can be replaced with another similar motor from another maker. Those that aren't standard can always be rewound. It is quite a project if you choose to do it yourself but it can be done. I have rewound a motor at home when I couldn't...

I have a wooden skew rebate plane that has both fence a depth stop. Works very well. I bought it secondhand. If you cannot find one it wouldn't be very hard to make one.

Judging by the number of lever caps that have had their front edges broken off from being used as screwdrivers I rekon there are very good reasons not to do it. It is easier to make a screwdriver than to make a lever cap...... and secondhand flat screwdrivers in resharpenable condition are not...

Creosote s very cancerogenic so I would dispose of them in a proper way.

My blue Bosch ended up at roughly that price. I liberated it stealthily from the "electronics" skip at the municipal dump and shifted the cable and the plug. It has served me well for several years since that. I only have a stick welder so I cannot give much advice concerning MIGs but I would...