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As Dave said do not use the compound to do the boring. Use the carriage & lock the compound if you can. Use a fine feed with small cuts as the boring bar can bend under pressure.Even a reamer is not made to take out that much material.

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Kevin, If you cannot read the manual I would suggest that you email or contact the supplier. Ask them for a list of the basic parameters that need changing for external control.

My speed controls are wired one side of pot to 5v out, centre to 5v in, other side of pot to ground. (yours may have a different voltage like 10 or 20volts)

Hope this helps a bit.

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Not familiar with that one Kevin. Cannot find a reference to it. F & R is usually a push button on the front of the unit. The remote is usually pretty straight forward apart from the fact that you will need to program the unit to run from an external source.

Can you post some pictures of the connection layout schematic in the book. ?

Also a link to the inverter would help a bit.

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Nice job Mick. About halfway through making 6 BXA holders for my QCTP. Keep getting interrupted by some "yes darling" requests.

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mmm JasonB beat me to it.

Never seen a drill bit that does not drill oversize. Most times its best to drill with an undersize drill then measure & ream or bore to size. If you decide to make the hole bigger try getting to the required size by reaming it or using an undersize drill. Metric drills can be purchased in 0.1mm increments.

From what I can determine from a quick Google. These scopes have a M15 x 0.75 thread. It should be possible to change the arbour. **LINK**

As you have the lathe it should be a simple matter to take a tape measure and get those dimensions. If you have a manual for it the dim's are probably in the installation instructions. Or failing that , mount the lathe on the bench where it is going to be mounted and use a Sharpie to transfer the holes through to the bench. Slide the lathe over and drill holes to suit. Use a bolt slightly smaller than the hole to fix it down.

The 15.5 will be the root of the thread. The crest will be around 17.5 when finished according to an 18mm bolt I have in the drawer.

I was at my brothers house yesterday. He is a model HO scale railway builder. I noticed he has the Lidl model and he said he uses it a lot. It is ideal for running small drills and burrs that modellers use. He uses it much like a Dremel tool. I suppose it is ideal for small work but would not want to be overtaxed and probably not much use in a workshop environment.

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If you want to run a server from home you will need a fixed IP unless you go through someone like **LINK** where you can point your dynamic IP address to a static hostname for free.

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Ebay is your friend.

Also YouTube is a good way to pick up all the knowledge to run your Bridgeport. Search for :- Keith Fenner, abom79, mrpete222, Joe Pyzinski they all have great machining videos. regards

@John Harding. Photobucket no longer allows linking to photos in their free accounts. Sorry to say unless the OP pays no one can view them.

Looks like a Sieg Clone. Most of these small mills in this range are OK for smaller work. Not as rigid as bigger machines so smaller cuts and a bit of care needed. I have a Chester Conquest which is similar. It is a good little machine. I have made many tools with it including a dividing head, several BXA tool holders and much more. Used with a good collett holder it should be OK.

I use this calculator to save what limited braincells I have left. :-  **LINK**

The one on the left looks to be the clamp section of an earth tag. The earthing strip is slipped through the groove, wrapped around a copper water pipe or ground stake and passed through the groove again then the screw tightens it all up.

I saw this chap at MMEE last weekend. www.peterwoodswagons.co.uk email:- peterwood.pdr@blueyonder.co.uk

He does all kinds of plates etc maybe he can help.