My Lil' Mule

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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#starrett #primeweld

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

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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!

@StuartsShed
@hilltopmachineworks2131
@windyhillfoundry5940
@DaveClarkThePatternGuy
@VintageMachinery

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#oddsandends

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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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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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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You can get most of the parts from Stefano.
DR DRO Project: https://www.provvedo.com/

Here’s the NEW display I used: https://amzn.to/423Duex
DR DRO Github: https://github.com/bartei/inventor-dro-case
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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!

P&B Grinding
10384 Industrial St
Garrettsville, OH 44231
(330) 527-0366
pbgrinding@yahoo.com

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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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@midwestrailway
@AmericanSteamRailroad

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Before I can fire this thing up and start making sparks, I need to fix the wheel guard and make a front cover for it. I finally make some sparks, but I have no idea what I am doing.

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As part of the restoration efforts of the Nickel Plate Road car #90, the buffer plate pins, that connect part of each vestibule to the car body, need to be replaced. Of the 4, only one was in decent shape, another was machined on a volunteer’s CNC lathe at his company, and the last two, I made on machines in my home shop. Eventually, this rail car will be leased to other railroads for exclusion and tourist rail trips.

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