Category Archives: Journal
New Enlarger Baseboard
Well, I made that baseboard. Only, I found out the cheap router bits I have are junk, they chew the wood rather than cutting. That mean the nice smooth rounded edges I had planned on are not nice smooth edges. … Continue reading
Much ado about nothing much
It seems that my lack of energy may have been due to congestive apnea. Anyway, I woke up in the middle of the night unable to breath. So, the next morning I went and bought a box of the 12 … Continue reading
eBay, will I ever learn?
I bid on a SPI combination square, and got it for $50. Now that is a pretty good deal. Looking in the machine tool catalogs, I found it for $148,$151, & $158. So, I can’t have any complaints for $50, … Continue reading
Happy New Year
May 2012 be the best year so far for all my readers. About the only thing that has happened between the holidays, is I received the cutters that fit for the lathe. To check them out I faced off about … Continue reading
A New Saddle and Hand Wheel for Lathe
My, hopefully, last order of parts came, and I replaced the saddle and hand wheel. As you know from a previous post the old saddle was abnormally worn. The old hand wheel was cracked at the set screw hole and … Continue reading
I Lied!
I said sometimes you do OK on eBay. I lied. Now that it is dark I used a flash light to check the bellows on the camera. It looks like a christmas tree. Unfortunately, this is not one that … Continue reading
Monorail view Camera, or sometimes you do OK on eBay
ADDED 12/9/11: Turned out the bellows are bad, see next post “I Lied”. Well, this one should go on Graywolf Photo, but the subtitle makes it appropriate here, I guess Today I received an Omega E View Camera from … Continue reading
It’s Working
The parts for the lathe arrived today, for the past couple of hours I have been working on it, with the result that everything seems to work. I ran it to and fro with the power feed (if I ever … Continue reading
& Yet More About the Lathe
I got a reply from the seller. To paraphrase: “I didn’t know it was junk, so it isn’t my fault”. Or, in his own words: “As I said in the ad; The only thing I checked is if the machine … Continue reading
And Sometimes We Are Lucky
Started tearing the lathe down to see what was what inside the headstock. Stripped the lathe down piece by piece until I took off the motor cover. What’s this? They motor is not supposed to be mounted at an angle! … Continue reading