Half dead center for the mini lathe - video

[WmRMeyers]

Oh yeah I'm just learning. I don't for a second claim to know what the hell I'm doing. I'd love to find an encyclopedia of old timer tricks. I feel like CNC is wiping out a huge amount of valuable tribal machining knowledge.

Go to archive.org, and search machinery, machinist, machine tool, lathe, mill, etc. Check out the Hill kinks books, and kinks by itself. Colvin, Burghardt, Popular Mechanics (both their shop hints and a lot of the magazines are there) and you'll find more names to look for as you find related books and magazines. Machinery will get you old copies of the Machinist's Handbook, and the magazine that spawned it. If you need to narrow the search down a bit, try the American Library. Also, check out Folkscanomy. Also Joshua Rose, metal work, and I'm sure you can find other search terms on your own. I've got somewhere around a terabyte of data on my computer, much of it from archive.org. Also, check out the old books at Google Books. A lot of the old out of copyright textbooks from libraries were scanned by Google, and the ones that haven't been reprinted, are also (and sometimes exclusively) there, too.

Bill

[nova_robotics]

I've got somewhere around a terabyte of data on my computer

You and me both buddy. It helps if you rename it something like "Tax Receipts" that way the ball and chain won't find it.