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Continuing the restoration of the steady rest I bought for my 13″ South Bend lathe. It had many missing parts, including the adjustment knobs.

In this second part of making the knobs, I make a threaded arbor to facilitate the machining of the external features. I got to use one of my newly acquired thread pitch micrometers as well. One thing is for sure, I need to get better at nailing dimensions. I managed to overshoot just about every dimension on this part.

Continuing the restoration of the steady rest I bought for my 13″ South Bend lathe. It had many missing parts, including the adjustment knobs.

In this first part of making the knobs, I get the stock cut to length and the internal features bored, reamed and threaded.

In this video I remove the drive train from the K&T mill. I start with the drive clutch and pulley, the power feed/rapid traverse bracket and take off gears, and then pull the entire gearbox from the column.

In this video I remove the coolant pump from the K&T so I can get it apart and cleaned.

A couple of new channel stickers, shop updates, and acquisitions.

I wanted a better way to store my welding helmets with my welding carts. Putting them on the bottle valve isn’t a very convenient way to do that. This is not a new solution, but it’s my interpretation on the idea. I designed a hook that can be mounted on the welding gas bottle.

DXF Files: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1256343763/welding-helmet-gas-bottle-hook?ref=listings_manager_grid

I had prototyped some mounting blocks out of 3D printed plastic for the DRO read heads on the Bridgeport. In this video, I use my Logan 7″ shaper to machine some scrap stock down to size to replace the plastic ones.