| The Shop > Our Shop |
| New little shop |
| << < (2/4) > >> |
| HS93:
--- Quote from: Da_Kengineer_Meister on February 10, 2011, 01:36:41 AM ---. The old machinists I learned from used to say, a good machinist can make great parts and a C**PY machine, where a poor machinist can only make good parts on a state of the art expensive machine. There are some limits to this thinking, but by-in-large it is true. You will observe this over and over as you think about and decided to do something a different way than the way you did it the time before given the lessons learned.... --- End quote --- That is why I have bought a new shinney lathe :( Peter |
| HS93:
Seriousley the best lathe I ever had was an emco the size of yours, it was 30 years old when I got it and I made the best bits I have ever made on it, I traded up and stupidley gave it away, never got comfortable with the bigger lathe. but that is just me and I only make small brass parts. just read through this site, take it slow and askif you need help no mater how silly it seems,someone will gladley help you. Peter |
| andyf:
Hi cuog, Congrats on the arrival of the lathe. You mentioned trouble setting up the dial indicator. The articulated arms on the common sorts of indicator mount are a pain. I found it best to make up a mount which fits in the toolholder, so the indicator can be brought slowly into contact with the work by moving the cross-slide and carriage. Setting up in the 4-jaw gets easier with practice. I use the method shown here: http://littlemachineshop.com/Reference/Centering4-JawChuck.pdf though with a dial indicator with a little finger on the end rather than a plunger type. Incidentally, the pic in that link shows the indicator mounted in the toolpost. Happy turning! Andy |
| DavidA:
cuog, I suggest you cover up the printer that is beneath your desk. It won't like a diet of swarf. Dave. |
| cuog:
--- Quote from: andyf on February 10, 2011, 06:15:11 AM ---Hi cuog, Congrats on the arrival of the lathe. You mentioned trouble setting up the dial indicator. The articulated arms on the common sorts of indicator mount are a pain. I found it best to make up a mount which fits in the toolholder, so the indicator can be brought slowly into contact with the work by moving the cross-slide and carriage. Setting up in the 4-jaw gets easier with practice. I use the method shown here: http://littlemachineshop.com/Reference/Centering4-JawChuck.pdf though with a dial indicator with a little finger on the end rather than a plunger type. Incidentally, the pic in that link shows the indicator mounted in the toolpost. Happy turning! Andy --- End quote --- I'm liking the toolpost mount, it took me about 20 minutes to get the indicator in a useful spot, then about 5 minutes of fiddling to get to .002" runout which I called good enough. My dial indicator is far from the best, its just one I bought for less than 20 bucks shipped online somewhere, but it should be good enough until I can start collecting more measuring tools. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |