05-02-2014, 02:48 PM
Hi,
Thanks Big Al; yes I'm always gloomy when it's a black hole outside and raining. Cheers me up no end to have another burglary on the street as well. Perhaps I should dig a moat then this would use the rain and deter burglars?
I owned the Colchester Triumph lathe for years and this had the gearbox but although I used the gearbox for feed speeds I never once used it for thread cutting; as I said previously I've never cut a thread directly using the lathe since my apprenticeship days 50 years ago.
For the kind of work Refugee would like to do a small model makers lathe would be ideal it not taking up too much space but convenient for when needed.
Threading a short blind hole using the lathe under power would indeed be most interesting; it can be fun engaging the half nuts using the dial but so easy to cause a lot of damage when the tool bit bottoms out; hardly a job for a novice using a big heavy lathe?
I'm sure you will agree Alan that the actual thread cutting doesn't take too long it's all the setting up and gathering kit which takes the time. The item to be threaded usually needs preparing bringing to threading diameter taking time. The first thread always takes the longest time; once the lathe is set up then other threads become much quicker and I'm only thinking of lathes found in most small home workshops not the industrial automated lathes which spit items out 24 hours a day.
Just a prod Big Al; what about turning the boat anchor I picked up for you years ago or are you still waiting for it to mature?
Kind regards, Col.
Thanks Big Al; yes I'm always gloomy when it's a black hole outside and raining. Cheers me up no end to have another burglary on the street as well. Perhaps I should dig a moat then this would use the rain and deter burglars?
I owned the Colchester Triumph lathe for years and this had the gearbox but although I used the gearbox for feed speeds I never once used it for thread cutting; as I said previously I've never cut a thread directly using the lathe since my apprenticeship days 50 years ago.
For the kind of work Refugee would like to do a small model makers lathe would be ideal it not taking up too much space but convenient for when needed.
Threading a short blind hole using the lathe under power would indeed be most interesting; it can be fun engaging the half nuts using the dial but so easy to cause a lot of damage when the tool bit bottoms out; hardly a job for a novice using a big heavy lathe?
I'm sure you will agree Alan that the actual thread cutting doesn't take too long it's all the setting up and gathering kit which takes the time. The item to be threaded usually needs preparing bringing to threading diameter taking time. The first thread always takes the longest time; once the lathe is set up then other threads become much quicker and I'm only thinking of lathes found in most small home workshops not the industrial automated lathes which spit items out 24 hours a day.
Just a prod Big Al; what about turning the boat anchor I picked up for you years ago or are you still waiting for it to mature?
Kind regards, Col.
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