"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke"

Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX)

Sunday, July 26, 2015

2015 Toolbox Giveaway Project

Loyal followers and viewers, Its been a long time since I put up a written blog posting. For those of you that have been checking back onc...

Friday, April 11, 2014

Expensive espresso cup

Well this is my first blog article in quite some time. I apologize for the long interval between posts. Lately I have been focusing on my Ox...

Friday, November 1, 2013

5C Spindexer Indexer

A few weeks ago I proposed a follow along project on my YouTube channel oxtools. A viewer suggested an interesting problem involving indexin...

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Tiny Drilling

For all the time I've been in shops there has been a story floating around that gets repeated whenever somebody has to drill a tiny hole...

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Monarch Lathe Survey

I had the opportunity to survey an interesting lathe recently. I appeared on our local Craigslist with a couple of sub-optimal camera phone ...

Monday, August 19, 2013

Drill Press Vise Wrap Up

I'm calling it done at this point. After cleaning and repairing the bonus Kurt vise I acquired with the Clausing drill press its ready f...

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