Thank you for the warm welcome
If there is one "problem" I have is that I tend to post too many photos (see my projects link above), so l should not disappoint in the lack of pictures department
Like many of you I always seem to have various projects in various stages. The one project I have been working these last couple of nights (trying to balance family, two kids, and a great wife) is the restoration/repair of a DTM BXA size tool post to replace my Phase II BXA wedge tool post. I got the used/damaged/broken DTM tool post from Ebay for about $40 (a new unit was about $360), and it had several missing parts, including the all-to-important wedges!
This is what I bought from Ebay:
Although DTM closed its doors (owners retired) one person was able to buy all of the remaining parts left, and I was able to get the missing parts (all new for $70). I was actually trilled when I got the parts because the wedges were over-size, so I am in the process of carefully fitting the hardened wedges to the hardened body of the tool post - it should be far tighter and more precise when I am done than probably most commercial wedge tool post since it is unlikely that manufacturers today do lots of hand fitting of hardened parts (it would be outrageously expensive). Since this is mostly a hobby for me, spending several hours to improve the tool post is a cool use of my time, specially since the Phase II that I have is fairly loose given is low cost.
I need to spend some time learning the forum to know where to post the respective projects. This DTM tool post is for my Precision Mathews 12x36 lathe - what would be the right sub-forum to start a new post for this in-progress project?
Will
