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I’ll have to see if I can get some Plastigage tomorrow. Definitely would make things easier

Just about eliminated hand sanding? Come on now, where is the fun in that! I might have to get one of those.

Nice work! That grind is not as easy as it looks. Really well done.

That looks very nice! Is that the pine?

This will be interesting to see. I’ve been thinking about trying pine, if I find some with some grain or something. That has a really nice color.

Here is the bearing and top cap. I did try to get the bearing loose with a small hammer and a scrap aluminum chisel. That thing will not budge! I thought it would just pop out, like a crank bearing on an engine, but that suckers pretty tight. I’ll read some internet stuff on it tonight. Might...

Had some time to mess with this today. Cleaned up the shaft, and it looks a lot better than I initially thought. It wasn’t galling I saw, it was just babbit goo. There is one groove in the shaft, very faint, but it is a continuous spiral, which makes me think it wasn’t worn in, but machined on...

I’ve pulled one bearing cap. The shaft looks “not good” for lack of better term. It does look like there were actually 4 bearing faces, but they are terribly worn on the bearing, I can’t tell if there was intended to be 4 or 2, and as it got sloppy it just started to wear the other side. I see...

Mine too lol. That’s why I gotta ask :)

It does appear to have thrust surfaces, but I can’t tell yet if they are “in addition to” the bearing, or just the thickness of the bearing wearing on the shaft face. I don’t want to touch it till I get some rubber gloves. I’m sure the silver colored lead paste all over it isn’t something I want...

That’s what I’m hoping to do. I did take one cap off, and they do have babbit bearings. I’m considering figuring out how thick the original bearing was, and making new ones using bronze sheet, and then carving grease channels into it. I know there has to be a way. I think it would be a...

Thank you. I did pull a cap. It does appear to be babbit.

The bearings I’m looking at are the ones in the two bolted pillow blocks here. The rear drive gear is resting on the small gear under it, rather than engaging it with a bit of clearance, so I think that bearing is definitely shot. The whole thing seems like it is shifted “rearward” to the left...

No I haven’t. I’ll ask the Google to find some of those for me. Thanks!

I have an old Flather lathe from I believe 1906. It’s a pretty good lathe, but the bearings are really bad. I’m guessing that they are babbit bearings. I haven’t ever done babbit bearing replacement before. Is it ok to start taking it apart, or is there stuff I should do before hand? Any good...

Yep, I’m from Minnesota! Makes sense now, thanks for clearing that up. That’s a pretty cool bit of history in that handle.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a “ tobacco stick”? Looks cool, nice EDC

Good to know!

I only did one knife with ram horn. Just worked it like wood basically.

Yeah I think that’s the route I’ll go. I think one of them will work better for what I’m doing.