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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts 
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On 2008-12-28 18:41, raywitko wrote: If you get a new one, howzabout selling me the old one!!
...Your professional woodworking and "tender" loving care in the products you make, make the wait worthwhile. Thanks for all you do...
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raywitko Special user western Pa 527 Posts
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On 2009-03-22 13:20, tabman wrote: Hey your retired now, remember. 
Sometimes it seems there are more than one of me.
Tabman USA magicdmv email me at [email]fursclass@magicdmv.com[/email] |
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts
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On 2009-03-22 15:01, raywitko wrote: You're right but I lived longer than I thought I would. Anyway, I always loved that little lathe. When I was a kid I dreamed about owning something like that but my family didn't have much and certainly not enough to get a fool kid a mini metal lathe. Magic made it happen for me and paid for it all and I hope it's still doing the work for you. I saw you mention that you wanted a newer one and I was just poking you to see what you'd say. -=tabman
...Your professional woodworking and "tender" loving care in the products you make, make the wait worthwhile. Thanks for all you do...
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MickeyPainless Inner circle California 6065 Posts
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I like the looks of that Micromark and it seems I've read or heard good things about it! I'm strictly a wood guy and have a nice Jet lathe for that purpose but I've always been intrigued by metal work and have thought about giving it a whirl on a small scale! Yeah, like I need ANOTHER obsession!
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raywitko Special user western Pa 527 Posts
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Same here Tabby, always wanted tools when I was a kid. Didn't give a hang about sports. They couldn't see why I needed them. Same way with magic, they thought it was a waste of time and money. When I graduated from a vocational school,the Instructor said I tied with another student for the Rockwell award. Winner got tools. Supposedly they flipped a coin and I lost. Guess they knew better than to let me flip a coin because I was doing magic back then too. Funny, nobody saw them flip that coin and the winner was a son of a friend of the instructor.
Ray
Sometimes it seems there are more than one of me.
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts
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On 2009-03-23 15:06, raywitko wrote:....Funny, nobody saw them flip that coin and the winner was a son of a friend of the instructor. Funny how those things seem to work out that way??!! -=tabman
...Your professional woodworking and "tender" loving care in the products you make, make the wait worthwhile. Thanks for all you do...
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jackin box New user 1 Post
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Hi everybody was wonderin if anybody could make me a expanded peace dollar would be happy to pay and just want it to do the job?
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Paul_Rheaume New user 59 Posts
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A bit of history. Sheldon Atterbury machined all of the prototype coins for the company he and his partner Charlie Johnson (Johnson coins). All of the proto work was done on a unimat. the standard production runs were done by sam Leport in his comercial shop on Logan lathes. I have done some on my craftsman and also on my older southbend. They all were run in steel collets
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts
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On 2009-04-30 17:56, Paul_Rheaume wrote: Unimat is a great little machine. Quiet, smooth, I never knew that about the Johnson coin prototyping but I am not surprised at all. Thanks for sharing that info. I tried to find and buy Conrad Haden's machine but lost track of it in Florida; was it Ormond Beach? It's been a long time since those days. -=tabman
...Your professional woodworking and "tender" loving care in the products you make, make the wait worthwhile. Thanks for all you do...
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The Baldini Inner circle I some how pounded in 2443 Posts
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Just stay away from the really cheap machine lathes, they are so in accurate that you will never get anything made and it may cause you to give up, they are good for large scal work where there is a lot of room for error, but with small stuff, close tollerance is important,we have a company here in the US called Harbor Freight, they are great for disposable items, check the link, you will see a great value for a machine, if you have the ability to tear it down and re-build it, you will have a nice machine,but as it is, it's very poor.
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jay leslie V.I.P. Southern California 9500 Posts
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Dave
If you take a caliber and measure the run-out on any of those, I think you'd be surprised that they really don't have tight tolerances. Also the ball screws they use have a lot of back-lash. I "look" at them occasionally just to see if they get any better. They have but not enough to do precise work of .003 which you need for coins.
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts
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A few years ago I bought one of those Harbor Freight small lathes thinking it might be better than my Unimat but it was not and I sold it on Ebay immediately. I think the little unimats are good though. What do you say, Jay?
-=tabman
...Your professional woodworking and "tender" loving care in the products you make, make the wait worthwhile. Thanks for all you do...
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The Baldini Inner circle I some how pounded in 2443 Posts
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The Harbor Freight quality is not just in it's tollerance, but also in the bearings , they were quickly and the bed does not glide smoothly when compaired to a better model, I feel they are great for rough turning , but not when accuracy counts.
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