Interesting, I always thought this was a possible issue with a few setups I've seen, but I haven't heard of it happening yet.. Hopefully the lathe is still ok.
I just finished welding my lathe table together last week, it's now fully bolted down, with the main reason being I made small ''levelling blocks'', which help make the lathe run true and get rid of any potential bed twist (something I haven't really seen talked about much). Basically the lathe sits on bolt heads, which have been drilled and tapped, and a secondary, smaller bolt, bolts the bed to the larger bolt heads. What you can do then is level the lathe on multiple points, and take measurements as you do so, cut a piece, measure the diameters, and adjust the heights accordingly, which then brings the cutting knife closer in to the workpiece, or further out, until it cuts perfect.
I'm mentioning this so if someone decides to go ahead and bolt down their lathe after seeing your post, that they also consider setting up a similar system, depending on the lathe, to also get better accuracy out of it, because I don't think it's that much extra work.
Hopefully the image I tried attaching below works, if not, I'll try to edit the post and figure it out.
All tips hold chalk, certainly if you chalk them enough like every shot or two or three.
The Taoms go on like paint.
I love the single layered tips.
Elkmaster, Triangle.
Certainly don't have time worry about separating a layer with a solid tip while shaping it.
Love the sound of a harder tip.
Almost can't be hard enough.
Yeah hard tips, are my favourite too, it always feels like the CB reacts quicker. And yep, the best ones that do this, are the single layer tips. Again trying to find consistency among all these, is tricky, no matter how long it lasts.
Oh gosh starting out so familiar. When I was starting out with 9 ball there was a ring game built around me. When I breached the door after work the Ring Game call went out. When I improved......crickets. if I enquired as to uh, "ring game?" The arm came up to display the watch and followed by, uh I gotta go."
Interesting, I always thought this was a possible issue with a few setups I've seen, but I haven't heard of it happening yet.. Hopefully the lathe is still ok.
I just finished welding my lathe table together last week, it's now fully bolted down, with the main reason being I made small ''levelling blocks'', which help make the lathe run true and get rid of any potential bed twist (something I haven't really seen talked about much). Basically the lathe sits on bolt heads, which have been drilled and tapped, and a secondary, smaller bolt, bolts the bed to the larger bolt heads. What you can do then is level the lathe on multiple points, and take measurements as you do so, cut a piece, measure the diameters, and adjust the heights accordingly, which then brings the cutting knife closer in to the workpiece, or further out, until it cuts perfect.
I'm mentioning this so if someone decides to go ahead and bolt down their lathe after seeing your post, that they also consider setting up a similar system, depending on the lathe, to also get better accuracy out of it, because I don't think it's that much extra work.
Hopefully the image I tried attaching below works, if not, I'll try to edit the post and figure it out.
