Carbide Tooling

A lot of Home shop machinists don't use carbide tooling for some reason. Here is a page with MY opinions on carbide tooling

My Lathe

Latest Project

Older Projects

One of the first projects to use castings that I ever did is a PMR #3 engine in bronze. The quality of the castings was fantastic, and the finished model runs well. I really enjoyed working on this engine.

Stepster CNC

Recently, I was asked to pick up work on a CNC program for DOS. The Web page is HERE Page On hiatis

Vendors

• Touch Master CNC Tool Presetter an interesting product made by a fellow ham here in the USA
• CASWELL electroplating in miniature
• Atlas Press The Atlas lathe folks
• Atlas Press Service Bulitins The Atlas lathe service bulitins
• Drill Doctor Drill Bit Sharpener
• Grizley Imports Machine Tools
• H.Gerstner & Sons Homepage (The best tool boxes out there. I have a Model 52)
• Logan Home Page (Logan Lathes)
• Machinery's Handbook Home Page
• Meridian Machinery Metal Working Machinery Sales - Seems to be partly re-opened
• Sherline Products (Small Lathes and Mills) My first Mill (which I still have) was a Sherline Deluxe Vertical Mill
• Stuart Models
• Home Shop Machinist (Home Shop Machinist Magazine, Projects in Metal)
• Live Steam and Outdoor Railroading Magazine
• Mitee-Bite Products Co. Home Page
• Machinery Values Inc. - new machinery, used machinery
• PM Research Inc
• Lee Valley Tools & Veritas® Tools
• The Small Quantities Specialist
• Machine Shop Trade Secrets Published by Proshop Publishing .This book turns out to be very interesting, but there is one mistake - RS in RS232 does NOT stand for Radio Shack - it's Recommended Standard - Quick Review? BUY IT
• Shooting Star DROs
• DRO Pros
• Shars tool
• Xylotex CNC
• Alibre CAD/CAMThey actually have a FREE 3D Parametric Cad program (which I've used and like) and it LOOKS like they now have a free CAM program too! Once I go CNC, this is probably the way I'm going (with EMC for the machine control)

Link Exchange

• Tool BoxesCheap new and used metal and aluminum tool chests and storage.

Personal Pages/Clubs

• A Lot of Brass - Model Engineering and Amatuer Machining
• Chris Heapey's MODEL ENGINEERING Resource Page (This is a GREAT Page)
• The ArtMetal Resource To Metalworking
• METAL WEB NEWS
• Ron Ginger
• Metalworking.com The Binary Drop Box for Rec.Crafts.Metalworking
• The Metalworking FAQ-Compendium
• J.G.H Technologies
• Mr Chips
• Dan Kautz A small interesting shop
• Ron's Model Engineering and Model IC Engines Index
• Oldengine.org
• Tauseef's CNC Machining and RC Helicopter Webpages
• Eric Mack's Sherline CNC Hobby Site

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