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Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I'd love to turn this thing into a little resto project, clean it up and paint it but it's just too big.

I'd have to build a bench just to put it on. I don't...

I got offered what seems to be a mill vice.

Only trouble is it's enormous. I don't think my bed would take the weight.

I declined the offer so it's still looking for a home if anyone is...

I use the Jamec fittings. No particular reason I just had a lot of them and kept buying more.

This is a good show to check the big machines and new technology. Always fun to see the rather creative industrial robot demos.

http://www.nationalmanufacturingweek.com.au/en/

Manual is still there too http://images.machineryhouse.com.au/products/L179/PDF/Instruction%20Manual.pdf

This lathe? http://www.machineryhouse.com.au/L179

That looks like the thumb adjuster from a shifting spanner.

Yeah, I figured as much.

I had some urgent work to do so it had to go in.

I'll order a correctly rated one and swap it out later.

All sorted now.

I popped into Hare and Forbes yesterday, they didn't have caps on the shelf but they couriered me a set to me today.

Original

Start cap 250 VAC 50-60Hz 100uF
Run cap ...

RP Steel in Bayswater had a few racks of stainless last time I was there.

http://www.steelsolutions.com.au/

By some unlikely coincidence both my lathe and compressor died with similar symptoms on Sunday.

Compressor would start slowly and stall once pressure started to build up.

Lathe would spin up...

Instruction manual is still available on the Hare and Forbes web site.

http://images.machineryhouse.com.au/products/L157/PDF/Instruction%20Manual.pdf
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RS components sell them. They're typically used in rapid prototyping of circuit boards by CNC engravers.

Buy End Mills RS 24.5mm HSCo End Mill, 2mm Cut Length, 1mm Cut Diameter, 3 Flutes RS...

Small Parts And Bearings

A wonderland of tiny, useful bits.

Hydraulic Jack oil is readily available at Autobarn, Repco, Supercheap etc.

http://www.autobarn.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/300x300/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/O/A/OA00117_1.png

Umm, I'd just use a brake line bender.

Just get your bit of brake line from a brake place and I'm sure they'd bend it for you on the spot.

I've got a little J15 Jetfire. Expensive, but gets a big space unbearably hot in minutes.

Industrial and Commercial Jetfire Gas Heaters and Dryers

Back to the original question for a moment,

I've previously centre drilled the end of a bolt and pressed in a ball bearing for this purpose.

Ball can be retained with an interference fit or...

Flexliner?
Flexliner: Tube Connectors

I'd use slide grease and valve oil for a brass musical instrument. Music stores sell it in small quantities.

Metal Spinners and metal spinning - Whitehorse Industries Melbourne Australia

Yeah I thought the same and bought a set of those. I've chucked the lot in the bin since, there wasn't a straight one in the box.

Total Tools just had a sale on slings. I got a pair of 1m and a pair of 2m ones which have been real handy for picking up heavy stuff with my engine crane.
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Consider making it bolt in so that you can sandwich the bodywork.

Depending on what you're racing and where there might be issues with scrutineers and welding the shock towers together.

Roll...