On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > > The hands-down favorite resource in Internet discussions seems to be the > 1955 book "Machine Tool Reconditioning and Applications of Hand > Scraping" by Edward Connelly. I see it's offered, presumably as a > reprint, by http://www.machinetoolpublications.com/ (see the table > contents at http://www.machinetoolpublications.com/about.cfm) for > USD92.95 which is about 20 cents a page. Prices on abebooks and amazon > are similarly high. Pity. > > Good luck. I have a mini-lathe too, warts and all, but I have nowhere > near the ambition you have:-) > > Regards, > Kent
In case anybody is interested in making up a set of tapered saddle gibs, and really smoothening out the travel, here's Rick Kruger's mod to the mini lathe: <http://warhammer.mcc.virginia.edu/ty/7x10/vault/Lathes/7x10-7x12-Projects/TaperedSaddleGibs/> I did this to mine, and it was like night and day working on the lathe. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
