The Kaiser Piccolo is an exquisitely made mid sized boring head with boring and automatic facing functions. I got a ISO30 one in a very nice condition together with a bunch of tooling. When tested it performed very fine but I couldn’t switch easily between facing and boring (marked as P and A in the head, maybe for the french «planage» and «alésage»). It needs to be serviced to cope with this jam.
Last days, I discovered that old grinding belts are prone to break by the scarf joint. This is an annoying but solvable issue.
The last summer I spent some time to design and make some cabinets to store my material under the worktable. I had no time to report about before. In this post I will show some details.
I made a solid platform from welded steel profiles to allow the Klaiber to be carried by a manual pallet truck. I left some images just for others inspiration 😄.
During the last months I’ve been helping Luke Rickert —of Elisenberg Engineering— to move forward a foundry project. I had a limited experience on foundry business that comes from the rebuilding of a cabinet saw and Luke’s project became a really interesting experience.
All begins when Luke asked me about foundries in Catalonia. He currently lives in southern France and he is really close to catalan speaking lands.
Old mechanical sewing machines are a true gift: robust, nice, effective and useful. Refurbishing them is, however, not so easy. Screws, particulary, are most of them made following old norms or simply following no norms. This is the story of a Singer sewing machine screw.
