I'm Not showing an Email address where you can contact me 'cause weeks can go by before I check email. But if you go to Lionel's forum on his backyard metal casting page you can leave a message for me there. I go by WAYGAT. The forum is also a great place to get help.
If you are really interested metal casting, and backyard foundries, click on the link below. It is the best site on the web for this stuff. It has lots of how-to info, as well as a great forum where you can get questions answered as well as many links.
Click her to go to Lionel's backyard metal casting
This is one of the best sites I've found for the "tools of the trade" as far as machine tooling goes. You know, lathe tool bits, taps, dies, shim stock, drill rod, chucks, you name it. Victor has been in business for more than 80 years. Get their catalog, great stuff.
Like all things you get what you pay for, a $10 1/2" chuck is a ten dollar chuck, or you can get a precision $150 chuck, they have both and everything in-between
Victor Machinery Exchange Inc.'s Home Page
Harbor Feight is a great place for all kinds of tools, Lathes, mills, wrenches, Grinders, tap & die sets, Just about anything. Word to the wise, You get what you pay for.
A ten dollar carbon steel tape & die set is just that, one step above junk. But the $30 high speed steel set is very good. Get catalogs and wait, one day it will be in sale for 19 bucks, most stuff on Harbor will end up on sale so shop with wisdom (patience). A must get is a 4&1/2" angle grinder often for around $19.
Harbor Freight Tools
Little Machine Shop is another site for tooling, geared toward the mini-lathe and mini-mill. The selection is very limited but interesting.
LittleMachineShop
Mini-lathe.com is a must see site. It is also a drool site, you'll be drooling over these little machines. Or you can make a Gingery lathe like me, and cast/make all the cool accessories yourself for a lot less. I thought about getting one of these myself, but by the time you get the lathe, mill, and accessories to make it work, you're in for 2-4 grand or more. But check out the content, lots of lathe how to stuff, like tool grinding. check out the Links page, great stuff for lathe/mill folks....
Mini-Lathe.com
Lindsay Publications Inc. reprints old books and other publications that if it where not for them they would not be in print anymore. For example South Bend's "How To Run A Lathe". They have many old time hard to find metal working and other such type of books.
www.lindsaybks.com
More links to come someday......
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