Tools and mods

Buying tools online

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Listing now lathe and milling machine tool items from ebay US, UK, Canada, Australia, Netherland, France, Spain and Italy. You can see it all in one place.

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A pool about these feeds

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:30 +0000

There is now a pool about these feeds, to see what do you think about it and what would you like on it.

The previous feed about the "John Moran's carriage auto-stop" wasn't posted by mistake, but only as a test and a example for you to understand one of the pool items.

I will look at pool results to understand what you want of it.

Check the pool and vote on Home-News

John Moran's carriage auto-stop

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

John Moran did a mechanical auto-stop for the mini-lathe.

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More plans from Ralph Patterson

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

From Ralph Patterson, four more mini-lathe mods plans. For your convenience, new files on library are now identified with a "NEW" symbol.

Arbor extension for 7x lathe - 11 pages - 0,5Mb pdf document

Carriage auto stop 7x lathe - 16 pages - 0,5Mb pdf document

Spindle indexer for 7x lathe - 32 pages - 1,0Mb pdf document

Vikki Ford's carriage lock for 7x lathe - 9 pages - 1,0Mb pdf document

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MEW articles on Library

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

With the kindly permission from ArcEurotrade, seven new files with MEW articles are now available on library.

The X3 milling machine (MEW 2004) - a review;

The C3 mini-lathe (MEW 2007) - a review in two separate files.

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Modifications to the X3 milling machine (MEW 2005) - a belt drive conversion for the X3.

Retrofitting the X3 milling machine (MEW 2004-2005) - three articles about a CNC conversion for this mill.

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