I visit the Cabin Fever Expo 2020 with a focus on the auction and consignment sales areas. This is my first year back to the Expo since it left the York Fairgrounds and moved to Lebanon PA. This year, the Cabin Fever Friday auction featured a huge number of small gasoline “Hit and Miss” engines. […]
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This week I’m working on reproducing the machinery tags on the Enco HexTurret tailstock. Working from a picture of the original machine tag plate, I use Photoshop to create a replica. Then I send the completed artwork to my A4 size UV cure DTS printer. The “Direct to Substrate” printer is a heavily modified Epson
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Continuing on with the lathe turret tailstock restoration. On the agenda this week- de-rusting, stripping, paint prep, some lathe work, blueing and priming- A little bit of everything! This tailstock turret was manufactured by Enco to fit the Clausing Colchester 13″ lathe
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