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- toolholders, I numbered them and it helped
Numbered the 3/4 holders with a stamp. The facing tool is 1. The threading tool is 2. I stop putting the threading tool in for a face and t…
- free way oil, wrong weight for me, spokane valley
Two gallons of way oil, heavier than I want on the 9A in winter. Unopened. Free to anyone who will use it on a way and not in a gearbox. Va…
- for sale: pile of 3/4 holders, Spokane, cash
Sold to Claire. Thanks. Locking isn't my job but I'm done looking at the pile.
- for sale: pile of 3/4 holders, Spokane, cash
80. Half of them are the good ones and you know it, Pat.
- for sale: pile of 3/4 holders, Spokane, cash
Yes. It's been two days.
- for sale: pile of 3/4 holders, Spokane, cash
Pile of 3/4 holders, mixed, some Aloris-style, some no-name that still clamp. $80 for the pile. Not shipping. Spokane Valley, evenings. Cas…
- felt wipers, or do I just oil it and mind my business
New felt, or even a strip of the craft-store stuff cut so it actually touches, keeps the chip off the oil film. Wiping is what you do when…
- oil cup lid is gone, the cup is a chip magnet
Turn a lid. It's a disc and a lip. Ten minutes, and you stop feeding the ways a chip salad.
- nameplate says 1947, the gearbox does not agree
Beds and gearboxes got swapped for seventy years. Date the bed by the serial if it's still there under the paint, and date the gearbox by t…
- ISO steady for a 9 inch, cash, I can drive
I don't have one loose. Watch the 'fits most 9 inch' ads. Most of them fit a 10K and sit on the 9 like a hat.
- paint the lathe, or leave the chips in the history
Paint it when the oil leaks are fixed, not before. Fresh paint with a leak is a diary. I left mine ugly for three years and the ways didn't…
- steady rest, 10 inch logan, sold, spokane valley
Holtz has it. Done.