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Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe !!!!

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vtsteam:
Happy Birtyhday Andrew!!  :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

PekkaNF:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

My aunt told me when I had my 50'th that "The life is not over, just a best part". Some people have the skill for pep talk.

Pekka

awemawson:
Thanks chaps  :thumbup:


So in the absence of a suitable bar end (and it would have had to be 4 1/4" diameter) I remembered that I had had some blanks flame cut some years ago to make gear wheels. Digging through them found two that if glued together might work

awemawson:
I needed 31 mm of thickness and these together make 30 mm which is close enough, as I'm adjusting the position that sensing occurs with the length of my chuck adaptor.

So I started by boring them out to 10 mm undersize to reduce their bulk for the silver soldering I was planning to use to fix them together

Don't often have to fit the reversed jaws but they went in today. Then I initially drilled a 2" hole in them to save time actually boring

awemawson:
The idea was to set them up like a sandwich, with a ring of silver solder and a sprinkling of flux, then heat them dull red with the oxy-acetylene torch, but first I grit blasted the mating surfaces.

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