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It certainly is, for a small community of racers we certainly seem to pop up just about everywhere!

Visit your local karting shop and have a look at the Rotax Max engine, water cooled, electric start and 30 bhp - just the thing for a lawn-mower (or a gopher in old-age).:D
It shouldn't be too hard...

Indeed. These days I generally buy Stahlwille hand tools. Expensive but worth it.

My grandfather gave me a set of 4 Sidchrome open-ended / ring AF spanners in a red plastic wallet when I was in primary school. 50+ years later I still use them almost every week and they are as good...

Grahame. I suspect tapping is the way to go. The thread form is not like a machine thread or bolt thread, it's very acute or "sharp" like a woodscrew.

Grahame

Are you talking about the cover plate on the outside of the belt drum?

I had a quick look at mine which would be older still, I would have had it at least 30 years now from new but the...

It's a 3rd hand, it can be used to hold stuff in place when you want to tack it. It is also used to place downward pressure on light stuff onto the welding table so I get a good ground (very useful...

Shamelessly stolen from Jody of Welding Tip & Tricks - these are very handy items. Just a lump of old scrap steel with 2 short legs and a long finger made of 3/8 rod. The ends of the rods are tipped...

Where did you get the 1.6 rods from? In the workshop I use the TIG or MIG for thin stuff but at the track I'm limited to the stick welder and I'd like to try 1.6 now I have the Fronius.

I'm wondering if there would be more drag (and hence tendency to drive the drum whilst the clutch is disengaged) from the plain bush bearings between the shaft and the drum than there would be...

The "boss" and I will be passing through Ballarat mid August on the way to race at Phillip Island, if the dates coincide I'd be a starter.

More information regarding the type of welding you intend to do would assist. Will it be workshop based or will you be out and about (or a combination of both)? What thickness steel are you intending...

You know that's not possible. There's a matrimonial gene allocated to wives which gives them a sixth sense which enables them to sniff out new machinery acquisitions. They may not tell you that they...

Thanks to all of you for your input. I was all set to get the WIA unit when I was offered an insanely good price on a new Fronius Transpocket 1500 welder.

Man I wish these things had been around...

Personally I wouldn't be doing it under power at all but swinging the chuck by hand with the power off. Others may do it differently.
You don't say whether the dies are carbon steel or HSS, you may...

The WIA box is $349 at one of our industrial suppliers.

Thanks Karl, I did wonder about the "parentage" of WIA stuff these days. I'll have a look at the machines you mentioned.

Has anyone had any experience with the WIA Weldarc 180i inverter stick welder?
It's time to finally retire my faithful Peerless buzz box after 40 years of hard service and the WIA is one of the...

Good to know that it'll still work on the moon then.

I use Rocol Open Gear Spray Grease for those change gears and it seems to do a good job and doesn't get thrown around the place like normal grease does. It's a bit hard to find sometimes but a can...

But by removing the gear-train at the rear of the headstock you've also isolated the QCGB so the noise could possibly still be coming from there. Do you hear the noise with the gear-train in place...

Are you using the power feed, the gears in the quick change gearbox (QCGB) are quite noisy at high speed.

It does, and they do. My AL960B is noisy on the fast pulley as well. At low revs on the slow pulley I also get the "rumbling" noise. It's been like that since I got it new 5 years or so ago and it...

In this case it might be a combination of both factors.

I retrieved the short section of RHS I cut off the job from the bin and had a good look at it. On the wall section that gave way 1st there...

I use a pair of these https://sydneytools.com.au/irwin-11r-the-original-locking-c-clamps

Buying an under-powered grinder can be a false economy, once you have a grinder you will find more and more uses for it and will end up ruing the fact that it lacks grunt. Just don't have the grinder...

3rd option, Aberfoyle Park. Happy to help as well.
Cost would be $0.00 (+ GST):D

My Lotze is the same.

Depends whether you ever want to get it out again, I've used this http://www.loctite.com.au/3320_AUE_HTML.htm?nodeid=8802647703553 Loctite 660 on a pedestal drill that had a fixed spindle with a JT...

Unless you are trying to restore the lathe to its original state I wouldn't try to fix the broken bracket. It would be a lot easier to fabricate a functional replacement from steel. As with Michael,...

Mine has the full complement of chapters, also a 2007 print. Maybe yours was an earlier reprint.

No idea why Ashore suggested a copper plate but, for mine, I have a 2' x 1' sheet of 1/4" copper plate fixed to a heavy steel frame that I use when welding small stuff. The return lead is clamped to...

Make sure you keep the torch hose as straight as possible when welding, the ally wire is very soft and doesn't like being pushed around tight corners, it prefers bird-nesting in the welder.
You...

You also need to run pure argon or an argon/helium mix.

Yes, you will need pure argon, not the speed shield, gas.
The thing with the dial could also be a back-purge hose, is the black lead it's on an electrical cable or a hose?

If you do decide to scrap it, the headstock, spindle and chuck would make a great welding rotator with a bit of fiddling with different drive/driven pulleys. I've often thought about building one...

Talk to Hare & Forbes as the importers (if it is an AL340)

Perhaps post pictures once you get to see it and the collective wisdom on the forum may come up with a "cunning plan"

Councils will not use turps or thinners but instead use water based paint is because the OH&S people within the councils dictate that it be so. These are the same people who stopped the councils down...

When you find the carriage lock bolt or set screw it would pay to replace it with a home made T-bar, it makes locking the carriage for facing and parting off much quicker and easier.

Marc

From my reading of your set-up you will have a foot of weld on each joint. If that doesn't hold the two pieces together then a tenon, back welded, isn't going to make it any better. It just...

This thread, while interesting and entertaining in places, seems to have strayed somewhat from the original post. I'd still be interested in seeing Anthony's gear-train and QCGB set up so we can...

I set it at around 29-30 degrees on the scale (ie around 30 degrees to the cross-axis and 60 degrees to the bed direction). Having said that I've also cut threads with the compound left as-is and...

The AL960 has the "correct" 127 tooth change gear, at least mine does. If you can let us know the gear set up you are using and the gearbox settings I'll try it on my imperial AL960 and see what I...

He's "different" but that's what makes the interweb an interesting place. This is the next video from him where he uses the process to make a pulse jet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCsg5pQimWI

A cat

In the short term, is it possible to rejig the wiring into the switch such that the driver's window is controlled by one of the remaining good switches and sacrifice the ability to open one of the...

Yes, I remember when they moved down there they traded in old stuff for a short period, now they are just another tool store (not that you can ever have enough of them) selling new stuff only and...

Agreed, I remember when we had lots of that type of place in Adelaide, the one on Goodwood Road on the corner of Leader Street was a ripper (and open on Saturdays).

When and if they ever clear the...

Dean, my recollection is that he's not been open on Saturday for at least 10 years if not longer. His "going out of business sale" has had more iterations that John Farnham has had "Final Farewell...

For those of us in Adelaide: Redwood Machinery on South Road which has been closing down for the last 237 years is now only open on Thursdays according to the placard on the front door.