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Bridgeport M Head Rebuild (for the Benchmaster Mill) – Pt. 5 (Finale!)
As the title says, here is the Finale! However, I’m sure I’ll be tweaking this thing until the day I’m done using it. Everything went…
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Bridgeport M Head Rebuild (for the Benchmaster Mill) – Pt. 4
Well, we’re almost there! Of all the projects I have going on this summer, I’ve basically been going at this one the last week or…
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Bridgeport M Head Rebuild (for the Benchmaster Mill) – Pt. 3
Well school and the symphony are out for the summer, so I have time to continue working on this project. Since the last post, I…
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Bridgeport M Head Rebuild (for the Benchmaster Mill) – Pt. 2
As work progresses, I hope to post here when there’s enough to write about. In the last few days I built the bench that will…
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Bridgeport M Head Rebuild (for the Benchmaster Mill) – Pt. 1
This post will chronicle the rebuilding of my Bridgeport M Head milling head that will be put onto my Benchmaster mill. I’ve heard of the…
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Long time no update!
It’s been a long time since the last update and I really do mean to keep this blog going. However, I know nobody wants to…
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Lathe stuff
So the DRO is finally close to being done. It works, and it works well, but there are still some issues to figure out. These…
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What I’ve been doing…
I thought I’d wait between posts to actually get stuff worth writing about, and perhaps I waited too long. I’ve been keeping myself “entertained,” “busy,”…
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Putting down a 1000lbs lathe…
As mentioned, here is the process used to get the lathe off the trailer and into my shop! I type this as I sit relaxing…
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“Picking Up” (literally) a 1000lbs lathe
It’s the beginning of December and on my usual Craigslist searches, I happen to find “the machine” I wanted. A larger sized lathe than I…
