... Thanks for the scan. I think this picture is all that is needed to reproduce one of these in a functional sense. The drawing reveals all the secrets of...
Ray I think you've hit the nail on the head. The chord length and angle the segments meet at is the most important thing in laying up a circle. As long as the...
Has no one yet mentioned that the miter trimmers were also constructed to make accurate joints for circular parts and often have the appropriate markings...
You're correct, and this was the "original"; way of doing large, segmented patterns with a machine. When you needed to make a pattern for the flywheel on your...
... It also allows a production worker, with no knowledge of trigonometry, the ability to kick out the segments needed to build the blanks. The calculations...
... angle the segments meet at is the most important thing in laying up a circle. As long as the outside arc isn't cut too roughly the pieces will register...
In going back through the "Bible" for curved work "Circular Work in Carpentry and Joinery 1886" I do not find anything that would lead me to believe that the...
I'm looking at a 12" Jointer that's located in Central Jersey. It needs to be picked up within 2 weeks if I buy it. My problem is I can't make the trip until...
Am I the only one that can't browse messages from the OWWM site? Thanks Bruce...
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Funny, I bought an old treadle grinder some years ago, figuring I would use it to sharpen. I never had the patience to get the stone round. I'm sure it would...
Aloha Ray & segment heads, The thread on the Oliver 135 Circular Segment Gauge has been very interesting to me and I have learned a lot. I hit the old...
Gary, when they sold out the old folks estate just up the hill from us, one of the items in the basement tag sale was a 24" x 2-1/2" wide (originally) pedal...
The MS definetely needs some tuning. It too ke a long time - several time-outs - to load my recent bandsaw and RAS photos, and searching the archives has been...
Rich - and all, I have been swapping e-mails with our ISP that host the mother ship over the past few days about the speed of the site. Here is what I have...
I have a 1/2 HP craftsman motor with a non-functioning Klixon thermal protector. Peerless Electronics is a distributor for klixon products and I am wondering...
... ship over the ... learned. ... changed IP ... problem ... servers on the ... correct IP. ... few days. ... you are ... (trace route) ... Keith, I can do...
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to help me get a few machines set up correctly? In particular, i have a Fay and Egan joiner and I can't get the...
... few ... joiner ... force ... Scott ... jamie, It sounds like you have some quality iron. For me, part of the pleasure of using the old iron is in getting...
Yeah, what Rich said. Asking for help is a little vague. I'm imagining that you're asking someone to come out to your shop and repair the fence so it will ...
... <jamie.holt@v...> wrote: Is there anyone out there [ ... ]also a Fay and Scott > pattern maker's lathe. I'm a local boy but I now live 400 miles away and...
I just posted the 250th entry in the Oliver registry, so Oliver has passed Crescent in the number of entries. If we include Joe Oliver's other two companies...
Unless someone drops another in ahead of me, then it's 29..:-) We should hit all those sixes on Monday or Tuesday if the site doesn't crash completely from...
look at history, #s 6,66,666,6666, Ma Keeter had two out of four, so what are the odds, go for it Ma. Glenn in the flat lands of Texas,near the four 6s (6666)...
