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My own arbor nut on AGS10 is 5/8" diameter LEFT hand SQUARE thread 12 tpi. Mine does not have the rise/fall riving knife so may be a bit earlier. This is similar to Deema's pics. The OP's picture is not quite clear enough for me to decide whether it is square or ACME thread. It is most...

Nice job!

"1 for shooting board, especially with a settable angle so that you can fine tune mitres against slight errors.

A thread file is useful for cleaning up threads of a number of pitches. Or of course dies or chasers but these are more expensive...

Excellent. When you are ready, send me your email and I'll put you in touch with the likely customer. best wishes Keith

+1 for one stebcentre to locate and drive, and a revolving centre in the tailstock.

Any rosin/epoxy is denser than water hence denser than oil, so it isn't a lightweight solution.

It was the major material for making woodwind instruments such as clarinets, flutes and oboes in the period 1700 - 1850 approx, until tropical hardwoods became more available. This is because of its density, diffuse, even porosity and stability. Rare for larger instruments such as bassoons and...

Cromwell have good stuff and sell small quantities.

well done! Looks clean, too.

Yes I think so, they use "one-way" bearings that spin one way and clamp the other way. And I doubt if you can get the opposite-handed hand chucks!

Serves you right for not keeping them in the workshop, green fingers :-)

Exactly. It is totally different from all current nuclear reactors. It uses no plutonium, uranium or any other ore for fuel. If it goes wrong it stops working. Actually, the problem is getting it to start working :).

Too right! Didn't even look red hot. Hmmm I think it might be dodgy. That table appears to be box section steel tube, held by corner pieces banged in. There are various products/systems that do the corner pieces. I would think that is a better and simpler method. If steel tube, bracing would...

Lock it with the piece on the other end (using a well-fitting locking bar) that you are complaining about.

HSS tools are absolutely fine for home workshops. Tipped tools are really for big high production machines, like taking 5 mm cuts in hard steel. HSS actually gives better finish and precision on smaller-scale machining. Most home lathes won't handle those kinds of cuts anyway.

It depends entirely on the forces to which it will be subjected. What is the application? In principle yes, use the strongest (highest silver) composition, make sure the two pieces are flat and that the solder is pulled into the whole join by capillary action. As said it all depends on flux. It...

I've used them a few times but not when there was much stress. The first was for fake laboratory benches for a film set, made quickly and cheaply out of whole sheets of chipboard with melamine finish. They just had to hang together and support some electronic equipment, which they did fine until...

Nice work!

Yes their main use is on metal meths but they are quite long enough for fairly long ones. But it is assumed that you check heights (parallelism) with a dial gauge or test indicator with a sensitivity of 0.001 - 0.01mm. Then you are good to 0.004 - 0.04 mm even at a metre out, which is far less...