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I'm not talking about plastic 3d printed machines, or modern tight tolerance super precise machines, but rather things cobbled together using shafts, pulleys, bearings, pillow blocks, good old iron and steel and the like.
I'm registered at oldwoodworkingmachines.org, and have been pretty active there with my bandsaw restoration and finding other old tools and the like to tinker with, but I want to share ideas about building new machines from old machines and even from lawnmowers and the like. The highest tech I'de like to possibly discuss would be the electrical items like speed controllers, the non-digital type if possible.
A place where stuff like my homemade lathe and belt grinder could be discussed, without having to go to the DIY Lathe or DIY Belt Grinder specific forums.
Just DIY machine cobbling from OLD tech in general.
Just the other day I was walking my Dog downtown, and a gentleman called out to me from his front porch, asking me if I'de like my rifle back.
I was totally confused, but upon asking which rifle, he said "The 10-22 that you did all the stock engraving on with the Clark barrel", to which I responded, "Yeah, that would be nice, but I'm broke as a joke right now, so thanks for the offer, and if I ever can afford it at least I now know where to start looking for it."
He was like, "No, you can just have it."
Anyhow, turns out he is the Brother of one of my good friends that passed away a couple years ago, and he had been at that friends house one day when I had visited to show the rifle off like 9 years ago, but I was not selling it at the time.
A couple of years later, I fell on hard times and had to sell a lot of stuff, and that rifle was one of my creations save for the barrel and receiver, so I sold it to a close friend, who knew my other buddy and his Brother. His brother saw that I had parted with it, and made an offer to my friend I had sold it to, so he ended up with it.
Anyhow, long story short, he invited me into his garage, where I discovered that he too was in the midst of a machine of curious aspect, a tumbler for brass, with a skilsaw for a motor, rigged to a shaft that spun a giant pvc tube on a couple of sets of skateboard trucks, like a big improvised ball mill. He had a bench grinder that had bare shafts, and I knew at once that I had found a person with similar ideas to my own.
We hung out for a bit and talked tools and guns, but I actually had a suitable motor for his project at home, so not only was I gifted a long lost treasure of a gun of mine back, but I was able to help him get a motor for his project tso he could stop cannibalizing his tools.
We're friends now I suppose, and that's decent, but certainly there must be many masses of folks out there cobbling machines together in the old style with belt and pulley systems.
My searches for however I can think to describe what that is only turn up stuff about how to build a website and other irrelevant crap about 3D printing and stuff.
Any help finding what I'm looking for would be appreciated, and if I had to start my own forum for this kind of thing I would give it serious consideration.
I'm registered at oldwoodworkingmachines.org, and have been pretty active there with my bandsaw restoration and finding other old tools and the like to tinker with, but I want to share ideas about building new machines from old machines and even from lawnmowers and the like. The highest tech I'de like to possibly discuss would be the electrical items like speed controllers, the non-digital type if possible.
A place where stuff like my homemade lathe and belt grinder could be discussed, without having to go to the DIY Lathe or DIY Belt Grinder specific forums.
Just DIY machine cobbling from OLD tech in general.
Just the other day I was walking my Dog downtown, and a gentleman called out to me from his front porch, asking me if I'de like my rifle back.
I was totally confused, but upon asking which rifle, he said "The 10-22 that you did all the stock engraving on with the Clark barrel", to which I responded, "Yeah, that would be nice, but I'm broke as a joke right now, so thanks for the offer, and if I ever can afford it at least I now know where to start looking for it."
He was like, "No, you can just have it."
Anyhow, turns out he is the Brother of one of my good friends that passed away a couple years ago, and he had been at that friends house one day when I had visited to show the rifle off like 9 years ago, but I was not selling it at the time.
A couple of years later, I fell on hard times and had to sell a lot of stuff, and that rifle was one of my creations save for the barrel and receiver, so I sold it to a close friend, who knew my other buddy and his Brother. His brother saw that I had parted with it, and made an offer to my friend I had sold it to, so he ended up with it.
Anyhow, long story short, he invited me into his garage, where I discovered that he too was in the midst of a machine of curious aspect, a tumbler for brass, with a skilsaw for a motor, rigged to a shaft that spun a giant pvc tube on a couple of sets of skateboard trucks, like a big improvised ball mill. He had a bench grinder that had bare shafts, and I knew at once that I had found a person with similar ideas to my own.
We hung out for a bit and talked tools and guns, but I actually had a suitable motor for his project at home, so not only was I gifted a long lost treasure of a gun of mine back, but I was able to help him get a motor for his project tso he could stop cannibalizing his tools.
We're friends now I suppose, and that's decent, but certainly there must be many masses of folks out there cobbling machines together in the old style with belt and pulley systems.
My searches for however I can think to describe what that is only turn up stuff about how to build a website and other irrelevant crap about 3D printing and stuff.
Any help finding what I'm looking for would be appreciated, and if I had to start my own forum for this kind of thing I would give it serious consideration.
