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  • Category: Crafts
  • Founded: Aug 17, 2004
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Hi, I'm new to the group. I stumbled upon the simple hand powered drill in this article:...
10 May 31, 2012
4:43 pm

Pat
rigmatch
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And it only took 10 years! http://makeprojects.com/Project/The-Multimachine-150-12-Inch-Swing-Metal-Lathe-Mill-Drill/1751/1...
7 May 31, 2012
1:35 am

Larry Bentley
waterpumptech
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Hello. I may have found some good reading, but I know NOTHING about the site it's hosted on....
1 May 30, 2012
3:06 am

pizzabrain1234
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This is truly an open source project. All I ask is that you really make an effort to understand why I have done things in a certain way. Read the background...
4 May 28, 2012
7:52 pm

Pat
rigmatch
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Hey sorry to jut in here. I have in mind to make a homemade way grinder. You can get 10' of 2 3/8" diameter 16 gauge "terminal post" from Home Depot for about...
19 May 24, 2012
4:48 am

oldhermit
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After Pat asked if I would look into air bearings, I said "Sure, I have a few hours." BIG MISTAKE! I found that it is a subject which is as complex as the ...
1 May 24, 2012
1:13 am

David G. LeVine
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Over on the gingery_machine group there was a discussion about straightening a bent piece of CRS plate for the flat way used on the Gingery lathe. I thought it...
15 May 23, 2012
2:43 am

oldhermit
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The Open Source Ecology people have a CNC Multimachine ("files" 01 HOW TO BUILD A MULTIMACHINE) as one of their projects. I was even offered a job there (then...
3 May 21, 2012
6:18 pm

Pat Delany
rigmatch
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Thanks. Harold...
2 May 21, 2012
12:29 am

oldhermit
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probaly I do not have the right word i speak about the vertical and horizontal plastic fence we put onther the galery for intime or normal way I have...
1 May 19, 2012
8:25 pm

savardjacques@...
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I've just found a video of Rollie Dad's method here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaIuHNFIFNw>...
4 May 17, 2012
1:54 pm

Stan Stocker
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Hello, all. I'm in western Canada, and I'm casting about, trying to find sources of information about repurposing and "upcycling&quot; cast-off machinery and...
18 May 15, 2012
2:56 pm

Tan Emon
tanemon06
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Last night I got my xmas present on EBAY. It's a rusty Cole drill. I have wanted one since I first saw one on Pierre Leutard's site. The idea of being able to...
35 May 13, 2012
9:16 pm

David G. LeVine
sirdave144
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Greetings again! I have an old 1 hp air compressor motor I'd like to use for a lathe or mill project, but it says it has an auto restart. Does anyone have any...
6 May 12, 2012
4:49 pm

David G. LeVine
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http://homews.co.uk/page158.html Pat, I thought you would like to see this. -- Regards, Mr. Shannon DeWolfe --I've taken to using Mr. because my name misleads...
2 May 11, 2012
9:12 pm

Pierre Coueffin
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Hello! I was reading about a guy who's built a very nice looking wooden band saw, and I'm wondering if anyone thinks it might be possible to build a wooden...
3 May 11, 2012
3:39 pm

pizzabrain1234
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As much time as I spend bouncing around the WWW I don't know how I have missed this web site until now: http://iwr.ru.ac.za/~iwdf/lathe/ For an idea of the...
1 May 11, 2012
11:02 am

Shannon DeWolfe
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the maximum i can lown is 3 inch I have to do a 6 to 8 inch in about 4inch stick cover in contrete for my septic cover installation I made some special...
16 May 8, 2012
12:40 am

Gordon Haag
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Larry, I got the automated notice that new pictures of V2 had been uploaded: ...
5 May 6, 2012
10:16 pm

Pat Delany
rigmatch
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My expertise is computers but I found a press release on a web site about this group and I thought it was a great concept. I am a disabled Navy veteran. I...
2 May 5, 2012
10:12 pm

Pat
rigmatch
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Hello Group Does anybody have a size for the spindle shaft? I do not remember seeing it in the instructions. Keith...
10 May 5, 2012
2:19 am

David G. LeVine
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Pat, The information at the following link tells how to recover your pass word using your alternate email address. There's also a way to recover it if you...
6 Apr 30, 2012
9:23 pm

Pat Delany
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Several weeks ago my Yahoo mail account was hacked, I changed my password, wrote it down and seemingly lost it. When it came time to log in again what I...
5 Apr 29, 2012
6:04 pm

oldhermit
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The open source hardware movement is taking off thanks to Make's promotion of projects based on the Arduino computer chip. Since (I think) we are the largest...
1 Apr 29, 2012
4:40 pm

delany_pat
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I don't know how I missed the discussion about the "old man" levered screw drill that Larry Bentley posted here: ...
5 Apr 29, 2012
2:50 am

Larry Bentley
waterpumptech
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I don't know if it was one of the group-members who made this entry but in the general wiki pages there is an entry about multimachine. I accidentally stumbled...
3 Apr 28, 2012
11:55 am

Shannon DeWolfe
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Hi, hope that is the right way to say hello, as a new member. I don't have experience in "Groups", so I do wrong, please hit me softly... I'am german live...
2 Apr 27, 2012
2:40 am

David G. LeVine
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Here is a link to another site who is currently discussing concrete machine tools. I already posted a link to theis site but also will include a link to that...
1 Apr 25, 2012
4:42 pm

Robert
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Remember the thread on the spot welding gun that ran a while back? ...
2 Apr 21, 2012
1:45 am

oldhermit
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http://summit.oshwa.org/call/ Thinking of going If I can learn to walk a little better. Pat...
1 Apr 20, 2012
4:51 pm

Pat
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