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DavidA:
The series by Dan Gelbart is very impressive. But do we need that precision ?

I watched the series and after that the 0.0005" run out on my red lathe's spindle seemed horrific.
And his lab/workshop must have a crew dedicated to keeping it clean.

Guess I'll just have to tighten the headstock split taper bearing up a little more and hope for the best.

Dave. :(

vtsteam:
I do admire it though -- a great series and very cool lathe. Appropriate for some (though probably not all) of the prototype work he does. I know personally I wouldn't want to worry about temperature differentials (or I guess even dust particles) to the extent necessary to hold tolerances at the micron level. Especially not on something like a Pipe and Bolt engine. Or listen to air bearings and my painfully loud compressor every time I had to turn anything. Well, I'm sure his compressor is better than my thumper! :)

Anyway, back to this dog's ladder......turned out I didn't own a 1/2" -13 tap yesterday -- too late to drive to town. Couldn't believe I didn't so spent at least an hour searching multiple locations, but nope, I guess not. So nothing to show. I played with the Ebay DC Motor and controller instead. Picked up a tap in town this morning, so on with the show.

vtsteam:
Milling:

vtsteam:
Scraping:

Brass_Machine:
Nice! I need to learn to scrape...

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