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For a long time I have wanted to have pressurised air available, especially for glass bead blasting of machined parts. The main reason I hav...

As the lathe was covered heavily with protective red grease, my first task was to clean it all off and lubricate the machine properly. As I ...

My new lathe arrived on Monday, 13.12.2010, brought by a TNT courier . Incredibly fast service and delivery from Axminster Tool Centre in U...

A machinist have to know the basics of metals and plastics and their properties in order to machine them correctly and to know their pros an...

Almost from the day I got my X2 mini mill I have been thinking of adding a reverse switch to it. Countless times I have tapped with power bu...

I've been thinking of building my own heat treatment oven for my workshop to heat treat tool steels, for example drill guide bushings an...

Seems that I've been too busy to write updates in here, as I've been in work and tried to do a lot of lock related stuff in the past...