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| Spurry:
Next job, to drill the three handle holes. There was a handy bit of 25mm WR mdf just waiting to be used for a little fixture. Drew it up, then cut it out on the router. The two angled pieces hold the main piece at 18° off the vertical. Prior to removing from the lathe 3 Jaw, I scribed a line across the angled face using a pointy-piece in the toolpost, and positioning a short length of bar under each chuck jaw in turn. Pete |
| RobWilson:
Looking good Pete Looks like you made a cracking job of cutting the square hole :clap: :clap: Rob |
| dodazzle:
By the way, you did not need to have the compound slide handle at the rear. You could have spun the lathe in part in reverse, cut on the far side of the piece and feed from the front. I hope you understand what I mean. Jacques Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk |
| Spurry:
Thanks for the comment Rob. Jacques - that was my first thought too. But the cross slide ran out of travel, as well as exposing the cross-slide screw to the anticipated swarf. If enough time had been spent experimenting, with tool reversal, spinning the tool post etc., it is possible there would have been a method. The easiest for me, was to spin the cross-slide backwards (for want of a better expression). Graham - lest I forget. I did not give the reversal a second thought until I read your post. The cut was carried out with the screw moving clockwise, and only dragging when in reverse. I have been using this stunt for some years, and it could well be that the screw is secured with a little Loctite. :-) Your interest is appreciated. Pete |
| DMIOM:
--- Quote from: dodazzle on November 23, 2016, 06:27:04 PM ---By the way, you did not need to have the compound slide handle at the rear. You could have spun the lathe in part in reverse, cut on the far side of the piece and feed from the front........ --- End quote --- Jacques - it also depends on how the chuck is mounted on Pete's lathe, whether it would unscrew when run in reverse. Dave |
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