Plans, projects and How-to's for Home Machinists and Other Makers
Rob
MachinistBlog.com is pleased to announce our support for Copenhagen Suborbitals, a small non-profit suborbital space endeavor led by two guys with big brass ones. If they are successful Denmark will become the world’s fourth nation to launch a man into space, after Russia, the United States and China. In addition to wishing them well we have donated $10 to help their efforts 🙂
Seriously, I think what Kristian von Bengtson, Peter Madsen and their small group has accomplished is pretty impressive, especially on a budget that is considerably less than $100,000.… Read the rest
Even though YouTube seems to have umpteen million videos about machining I’ve found very few that will you show how to grind HSS bits for a metal lathe. And most of them show it being done on special grinders or with the help of jigs and accessories that most of us don’t have. … Read the rest
This photo essay will show you how to remove the intermediate gear and shift lever from the head of a Sieg Industries X2 mini-mill [HF 44991, Grizzly G8689, Micro-Mark & others]. It also explains why you might want to do so after installing a belt-drive. You may also find it useful if you need to replace a broken intermediate gear.… Read the rest
Pete Stanaitis has designed a really nice drilling and tapping block and you can find the plans for it on his web site. A tapping block is a simple but very useful tool used to make sure a tap is started straight in its hole. The tap is much more likely to break if it’s not, plus you’ll probably get poorer quality threads even if it doesn’t. … Read the rest
