Lessons from lifetime of buying used machines
When you're looking for used lathes, mills, bandsaws, and other machine tools, there are no hard rules. You need to know your situation, have patience, and be willing to gamble. Sometimes you'll lose, and sometimes you'll win.
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Lost Art: Braze repair on cast iron
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Cutting splines with a vertical mill
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Restoring a hundred year old Lathe! (Only took me five years)
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Bent axle stub repair - dialing in (1 of 3)
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The Last Sheffield Toolmaker: How Britain's Financial Crash Broke the Family That Refused to Sell
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I went to an estate auction that had a machine shop
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Machinist's Minutes: Tailstocks and steady rests (part 1)
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About moving lathes, mills, and other machines
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Headstock is a CROOK! Checking lathe headstock alignment
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How Two Canadian Brothers Built the Gold Standard of American Precision
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No Mentor, No Problem, He Taught Himself Everything
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Machinist's Minutes: All about reaming and reamers
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Railroad Machine Shop Tour & History of Miller Machine Works & Miller Brothers: 1885 to the Present
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Machinist's Minutes: One last CNC discussion
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Shop Tour, part one
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How Just One Mistake Destroyed The World's Greatest Engine Company
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The Most Interesting Tool You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? — And I’m Giving It Away
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I bought a $1500 line boring machine
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The World Still Needs These Machines
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