Recent content by SimonHS

If you like Laphroaig, try Lagavulin. It's my favourite. https://www.whiskyandwisdom.com/lagavulin-laphroaig-which-is-better/

That's the kitchen floor. Hence the paper to soak up any oil. Don't tell the wife!

Another lump of old metal followed me home. It's a vintage 'lightweight' Brown & Sharpe six inch dividing head. It will need a bit of tidying up as it has had a hard life, over the past 100 years or so. They don't make them like this anymore. The threaded shaft sticking out of the backplate...

I bagged this set on eBay a while back. Some of the info is obsolete or unsafe, but there are some really good tips too.

Here is link to a great free book that you will find interesting: Machine Shop Trade Secrets by James Harvey. You can read it online for free or download it for free in various formats. Did I mention that it's free? It has lots of tips and tricks about machining, tooling, making things...

I've been wanting a small power hacksaw for a while. This vintage unit popped up locally and I went to get it today. Paid £26 / $35. It needs a good clean, oil and adjustment, but it is really well made. It looks like the castings might have been supplied as a kit. The capacity of the vice...

Here are a few bits of info. The free parts list is in Japanese but gives part numbers, although most parts will be NLA after so many years out of production. https://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/002/4/0/2407-yanmar-ym1401.html...

Great value at that price. What model is it?

The pressure gauges are Dial Test Indicators for checking small measurements or run-out of shafts, or things being turned on a lathe. In the box above is a morse taper lathe reference bar, for checking, adjusting and setting up lathes. The black chuck is a slitting saw arbor. Similar to...

It's a fly-cutter, similar to this one:

Some of the used taps have been abused, for want of a tap wrench. If they are not worn out I will remove the locknuts and use the taps for rough work.

I bought some oily bits of metal for £250 / $330. I think that there is more than £1,000 / $1,330 value in just the brand new HSS drills, taps and countersinks.

Have you got a pulley that fits the shaft? Put it on and check run-out on the pulley. Otherwise you could turn something on a lathe that would fit the shaft. Or is the shaft centre drilled? Use a wiggler or sticky pin on the centre. A sticky pin is just something needle shaped mounted on...

If you cannot find one in the US I can send one over, but postage from L&S to me, and then me to you, would inflate the price somewhat.