My PM45M-PDF

[darkzero]

Damn it I thought I was going to get some expert welding tips, wait I believe I saw the appropriate emoticon...:yousuck2:lol Plus your avatar continues to give me lathe chuck drool. Thanks for the pic I'll check back on that. It was a real nice install it looks factory.

:roflmao:

Well I can still give you some tips on welding but those are closely guarded secrets that I can not share! :rofl:

Thanks again! Yup I love 6 jaw chucks, true chuck porn! I have another 6 jaw on the way but not another Bison, an asian import for my rotary table. I'm very curious to see it, I'll post it here.

 

[HangLoose]

That light mod is boss!

 

[darkzero]

Adding a short video of the power downfeed here.

Power Down Feed Drilling with the PM45M-PDF

That light mod is boss!

Thanks bruddah N!

 

[darkzero]

Do you have a pic of the table with the light on vs off?

Sorry it took so long.....

I'm no photographer so I'm not good with camera settings & capturing accurate photos but here they are. I put in the drill chuck to simulate something that would be in the way of lighting, hope it gives you a good idea.


With just overhead fluorescent lights.

Mill's halogen light (50w)

Spindle LED Light

Halogen light + spindle light

 

[coolidge]

Thanks I prefer the spindle light only, that's quite an improvement I may adapt to my drill press.

 

[darkzero]

No problem. Yeah, what I like the most is that there's really no shadows rather than having just a single light on either side.

 

[coolidge]

Exactly, its also that tungsten type of white/blue light which I find easier to see in. My distance vision is better than 20/20 but my up close vision is going to hell on me. I recently graduated to +2.00 reading glasses, without them everything up close is a blur. I'm fine on the lathe I have one of my 6 bulb daylight fixtures right over it they are like the sun. I see even your camera prefers the second picture, check out the rulers in all three pics the second looks the most crisp to me.

 

[darkzero]

Good eye! That's very true about the ruler, I planned on doing some closer pics of the ruler & is why I threw it in there but I didn't want to flood another post with a lot of pictures. Who knows if I will do more on lighting one day, can never have too much!

 

[coolidge]

Agree you can't have too much light, here's 30 bulbs of shop light power emanating from my 3 car garage, cue the close encounters of the third kind theme song!

 

[darkzero]

Holy crap! :lmao:

I think I need more lighting too! You'd probably can't see &%$* in my garage.

Nice truck!