The Sherline DC Motor and Speed Control has plenty of power for a Taig Lathe. I installed the Sherline Motor and Speed Control on my Emco Compact 5 Lathe a few...
Nowadays I would be tossed up between the Taig and Sherline, but the Taig is cheaper and if you add something like the Minimech leadscrew kit, it's the best....
Taig says they are working on a ER-16 collet spindle, but I have no idea when they will have it done... felice@... is Felice Luftschein and Nicholas...
Hi: Can someone tell me how to convert my bench top drill press to a milling machine? I know that I have to buy x-y table(Busy Bee has a good on) but I was...
Ken The Sherline motor and speed control unit can be mounted on the Taig in the same manner as it is on the sherline. All that is required is to also purchase...
Joe, I found there are some difficulties in using a drill press as a milling machine. 1. The chuck on my drill press, a Harbor Freight 38119 (low cost), was...
You really don't want to do this. The drill is not made for the stresses
involved with milling. Look at buying a Harbor Freight Micro Mill (around
$280 US) as...
Hi Everyone: I'm new to the group and also to the world of Taig. I make tobacco pipes and recently purchased the basic set-up including 3 and 4 jsw self...
Hello, I don't know if it will work but have you simple tried removing two of the jaws from the four jaw chuck I don't see why it wouldn't work. But there are...
Hi there, I just joined the list as well... I generally make sci fi movie props, and movie costume parts with my tools for a group of friends that do replica...
Hi Ken, Yes, I have done exactly what you are thinking of. If you don't want to drill holes in the headstock of your new Taig lathe, it's not so difficult to...
Hi Joe, Rather than reposting a message from the past, I'd suggest you might have a look in the message archives from the middle of April, 2002 for this group....
... diameter ... a ... capacity? You have what you need now. Just turn 2 evenly spaced steps in the OD of the jaws. First clamp the jaws down on say a 1/4"...
all, I live near the ocean and i'm having some serious problems keeping my tools from rusting. what do those in the know recommend for keeping parts from...
I've had best results with Boeshield T7. It's available at Woodcraft, among other places. But I'm having a hard time getting it where I am now. I'm also...
Wd40 spray everything ... From: Mike Estee [mailto:mikest@...] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:25 AM To: taigtools@yahoogroups.com Subject: [taigtools]...
Mike, what are you storing near your tools? I recently moved my drill rod and threaded rod stock and found one end very rusty. Turns out that there was a...
Well, I get to re-align my column and head again. I was doing some one line moves and bit off a bit more cut than the spindle motor would handle. It stalled...
... You certainly could lock the column by drilling & doweling it at the base. However, you must consider the consequences of this, namely, that if the column...
IMHO Attempting to convert a drill press to a mill is going to be an exercise in frustration and possibly very dangerous. The average bench drill press is not...
Tony I am going to have respectfully disagree with you. End mills tend to grab metal and pull into the stock rather than push away. To have a column that will...
Jerry - I would absolutely agree with you that running the mill with the column so loose that it won't resist normal cutting forces is a very dangerous thing ...
Tony No problem. Both of these machines were used for manual machining. When the column would move slightly the end mill would pull deeper and deeper into...
... Sounds very much like it! ... I saw him at the Harrogate show back in May - I didn't get the chance to talk to him, but he looked well enough. Doesn't seem...
I get pinhole rust spots with WD40. It'll displace water when you spray it, but then it seems to have problems. Tom P.S. I've heard WD40 in the US and WD40...
I was wondering. That's one reason I liked Boeshield T7. It was developed by Boeing to spray down the insides of airplane wings. it's a wax-based dry film...
... UK made WD40 just leaves a mineral oil after the carrier (Naptha) has evaporated and contains no silicon. It is NOT the same composition as the USA stuff...
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