Custom Walnut Storage Case for my 18″ Denis Foster Straight Edge

A viewer reached out to me and offered to build a custom storage case for my Denis Foster 18″ machinists straight edge. I am blow away how nice this is. This is an unusual video, because I don’t normally do unboxing, or record my voice at the same time (I usually record the voice overs post production) but I wanted to share my realtime reaction to this craftsmanship.

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Lake Shore Live Steamers Public Run 5-18-2025

I recently became an associate member of the Lake Shore Live Steamers. This is just some video from a public run held at Penitentiary Glen Reservation, part of the Lake County, OH Metropark system.

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Building a Rolling Cart for the Starrett Granite Surface Plate

I need to move the Starrett surface plate off the top of the Vidmar cabinet and onto it’s own stand. But I also wanted to be able to move it around. So I designed and built this stand.

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South Bend Lathe: Micrometer Carriage Stop

Cleaning up and using a South Bend Lathe Micrometer Carriage Stop for my 1942 13″ South Bend.

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Odds and Ends – Episode 10 – Gifts, Auction Finds, New Machine Day!

It’s auction season! I scored a few wins for the shop as well as some viewer gifts have arrived. And I save a WW2 era machine from the scrapper!

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Scraping a 12″ Cast Iron Straight Edge

A while back I machinined the Martin Models and Patterns 12″ cast iron straight edge on the K&T horizontal milling machine. I want to get it scraped in now so it can be used. I need a lot more practice with the Biax power scraper. It’s not as easy as it looks.

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Mounting and Cleaning up an Electronic Mag Chuck for the Sanford Surface Grinder

Last bit of work I need to do to get the Sanford surface grinder up and running is to mount and clean up the mag chuck.

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DIY DRO – Finish Mounting the Display and Electrical Upgrades for the K&T 2HL

The DR DRO on the K&T 2HL is getting some upgrades. I replace the 7″ display with a 10″ display, redesign the enclosure to make it smaller, and relocate one of the circuit boards. I also make some upgrades to the motor contactor for the machine and add some phase monitoring and overload protection.

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South Bend Lathe Rebuild: Grinding the Bed Ways

This project has been a long time in the making, and today, it finally happens! I took the bed from my 1960 South Bend lathe to P&B Grinding to have the ways precision-ground back to flat and true. Years of wear had taken their toll, but with expert machining, this lathe will be one step closer to factory accuracy. Join me as we walk through the grinding process and bring this classic machine back to life!

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Machining a new key slot in a ball valve – the $2,400 mistake.

When the boiler on the Reading 2100 steam locomotive (soon to be American Freedom Train 250) is fired up again, instead of coal, it will be running on oil. As a result, there needs to be a way to regulate the flow of oil into the firebox using a new valve that will be controlled by a power quadrant. The ball valve for the oil flow has a specially designed ball to feather the rate of oil flow at the low end of the curve. The problem is the valve opens counter clockwise, and ASR needs it to open clockwise. This entails machining a new key slot in the opposite side of the valve. This is a special valve that you can’t just buy a replacement ball, so if I screw it up, it’s a $2,400 bill to replace it.

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