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Moving and Hoisting a 2400-Pound Bridgeport Milling Machine.
Solo Moving and Hoisting an 800-Pound Mill-Drill.
Moving and Hoisting an 1000-Pound Clausing 8540 Horizontal Milling Machine.
A Mattock Tool for Moving Heavy Machinery by Hand.
Building a DC Drive for the Bridgeport Spindle.
Converting a Bridgeport to CNC.
Making a Boring Bar for the Lathe.
Making Digital Camera Microscope Adapters.
Making Digital Camera Telescope Adapters.
Making a Movie Film Transport Mechanism.
Making a Comet Pressing Tool and the Metal Casting Foundry.
Making a Die for an Air Cylinder.
Making a Hardened Keyway Cutter and Keyed Bushing.
Evaluating True Horsepower and CFM Ratings of Air Compressors.
Converting an Ordinary DC Motor to a Servomotor.
CNC Servomotor Drives for the Mill-Drill X-axis and Y-Axis.
Buying Button Cells for Digital Calipers.
Repairing a Whirlpool Ice Machine.
An Improvised Bulkhead Fitting for Liquid Storage Tanks.
Design and Tooling for Spin-Stabilized Pyrotechnic Rockets.
Machine for Weaving Visco-Type Fuse.
12x36 Lathe T-slot Base for Harbor Freight 33274 Lathe.
Jeep Wrangler TJ hitch bracket for rear bumper.
Drawbar speed handle for Bridgeport milling machine.
References and Textbooks for Metalworking.
Boat bench recreating an item on my 1986 Four Winns Liberator 211 powerboat.
Low-pressure scuba hose adapter (SAE J1926 female fitting).
Scuba BC quick-connect to J1926 adapter (SAE J1926 male fitting).
CAD drawings for the Pinewood Derby (Awana Grand Prix) wood blank (PDF file) and pencil design idea (PDF file, 3 pages).
An optical prototyping system based on standard structural aluminum.
My novel spherometer designs: a 3-leg spherometer and a conical spherometer.
Retrofit couplings to convert Minolta MD mount 35mm camera lenses to Canon EF mount for EOS digital SLR cameras: for the Tokina AT-X 352 35-200mm f3.5-4.5 lens, for the Tokina RMC 500mm mirror lens.
Polyspede PWE-10K VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) Inverter Instruction Manual [884 KB PDF file].HP (Agilent) HEDS Quadrature Optical Rotary Encoders [266 KB PDF file] (part numbers HEDM-550X/560X HEDS-550X/554X HEDS-560X/564X).
Psychrometric chart for moderate temperatures.
A Bridgeport milling machine appears prominently in a scene of the 2005 film, The Thing About My Folks (see IMDB information) with Paul Reiser and Peter Falk, depicting the auto repair shop of an eccentric but very competent mechanic. See my frame capture 1 and frame capture 2 stills from the movie (JPEG files) at about 31 minutes. You can see a Kurt-type vise and rotary chuck on the table in the first frame. This appears to be an old round-ram M-head type machine, which dates it back to the pre-WWII era. This would be an excellent tool for a repair shop, and I would tend to trust a mechanic who owned such a rare item. I believe this scenery is an authentic but uncredited repair shop somewhere in Hudson County, New York State, where the movie was filmed.
Stainless Steel and Superalloys.
