mini ball turner.....

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Divided he ad:
Well gent's I came to the theory - a job that needs to be done that didn't work well and has become delayed will stop your progress on other things and bring you down....

So I came up with a solution, do a little on something that will make you very happy, then when you do a bit on the awkward job you are in good spirits and you get it done quicker and you are still happy at the end of it! :thumbup:

Works for me anyway.... I'm still happy now ;D ;)

More on this next week too.

Ralph.

Bernd:
You're absolutley right about that Raplh. :beer:

So that's what I did. I worked on something else. Then I went back to finish this.

:bugeye:

Can you guess what it is? ;D (sorry for the blury pic)

NO! Ok here's what it is. ;D

And to show that I did it:

Not quite a ball, but darn close for the first time. :bugeye: YES?

I call this the MK I. It was just to try out the idea of a tool such as this. I see lot's of projects now with balls on them. (eh hem ::) No pun intended)

Now back to Ralph's mini turner.

Bernd

Divided he ad:
Sweet tool Bernd....!! Worth the effort?

If you would like to view the post I did on set up of the tool it is on the HMEM board, last few pages of the 'Nose cone - ball turner' post about half way down the last page in fact.

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=1721.45 (hope it's ok that I link to this?)

You will get a very good, very close ball from this method.

Looks like your not too far off now anyway... Nice first attempt... My first one looked like a rugby ball!!! (a football to you guys) ;D

That lathe looks remarkably familliar!!!? I think a saddle lock is a future project though.... The allen key did my nut in!! (drove me crazy)

I look forward to seeing your..... Erm no! I am looking forward to your future projects with knobs on ;D

Ralph. :thumbup:

Bernd:
Thanks for the nice comments Ralp. :beer:

Went back and "reread" your steps. It's almost to a "T" what I did without the marks. I sort of eye balled it. That's why it came out close.

The lathes are of the same design. Mine's a Grizzly.

I think I'm going to make a ball turner for the Sherline so I can make smaller knobs. :D

Thanks again for the push. I probably would have never made one, but after seeing one of your video's I had to have one. :beer:

Bernd

Brass_Machine:
Bernd

You have shamed me into starting mine for my mini lathe! That came out very nice! I am duly impressed.

Very nice. I will start mine this weekend. I have to finish up some Halloween props for neighbor (will be doing either a gallery or log on them) first.

Eric

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