In Case Your Main Lathe Just Doesn't Cut the Mustard
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Doesn't surprise me. I saw a Clausing today I hadn't seen before and called about it.
Ask Clausing where most of their lathes come from.....I didn't know until today...Taiwan, Spain, England(very few). I remember the guy said mostly Taiwan...
So many levers and handles. What would one do with all of them?
Very nice lathe tho. Maybe I gets one for Christmas.
Very nice lathe tho. Maybe I gets one for Christmas.
lots o' levers
Well, there was a bunch of identical big levers in front of me and more stuff on the side. I'm a city kid. I had less than no clue. Much less.
The guy started out with "Well, ya just.........".
Always a bad start.
One wouldn't want to pull the wrong lever........OOPS! Ya had ta be there.
Same with that nice lathe I think.
Robin
By the way, I was kidding about the "rurals". One side of my family is farmers back to the beginning of time.
A lot of things are kind of like cuemaking in that way. "So, it's just a lathe job, right?"
The hidden depth of things....isn't it wonderful?
A few years ago was going to rent a big excavator to do some work on some country property I have. I thought I could figure it out pretty quick. I mean, I'm a bright guy and anyway, how hard could it be, right? If these rurals can do it, what's the problem?
Well, there was a bunch of identical big levers in front of me and more stuff on the side. I'm a city kid. I had less than no clue. Much less.
The guy started out with "Well, ya just.........".
Always a bad start.
One wouldn't want to pull the wrong lever........OOPS! Ya had ta be there.
Same with that nice lathe I think.
Robin
By the way, I was kidding about the "rurals". One side of my family is farmers back to the beginning of time.
A lot of things are kind of like cuemaking in that way. "So, it's just a lathe job, right?"
The hidden depth of things....isn't it wonderful?
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So what are you trying to say? they are very good machines, but the older ones are better than the new ones.
JIMO
I'm saying they are nice and if I had lots of disposable income, I might get one.
Robin, if by excavator, you mean a back hoe, you are correct. I was a truck driver most of my life and could run a few different types of heavy equipment like a loader etc. A back hoe, no way, too many levers. I have watched back hoe operators at work and I know why they get paid fairly good money.
Disposable income is what I need Randy. If I ever get a bigger shop in my back yard, a bigger lathe is on the list but not before I take Lathe 101 at my local college like Joey advocates all the time. My large machine lathe experience was back in high school and I do believe I have forgotten most of what I learned there.
Disposable income is what I need Randy. If I ever get a bigger shop in my back yard, a bigger lathe is on the list but not before I take Lathe 101 at my local college like Joey advocates all the time. My large machine lathe experience was back in high school and I do believe I have forgotten most of what I learned there.
no backhoe
I was a mechanic most of my life, with a few years off to be a mad scientist. One summer years ago I worked on big rigs and occasionally I would have to move some behemoth off, then back on, a lowboy. So I figured, what the hell, now I'm sort of qualified to move about in these things. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
And this wasn't a backhoe, this was a full-on, humungous, crawls on tracks excavator, which my neighbor offered to rent me "if I could run it".
It took at least a minute and a half to figure out this was not going to be something I would successfully accomplish soon. As I said, ya hadta be there. It was fairly horrible.
Fortunately no actual damage was done, and I tucked my tail between my legs and got someone with a clue...not me!
Robin
I was a mechanic most of my life, with a few years off to be a mad scientist. One summer years ago I worked on big rigs and occasionally I would have to move some behemoth off, then back on, a lowboy. So I figured, what the hell, now I'm sort of qualified to move about in these things. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
And this wasn't a backhoe, this was a full-on, humungous, crawls on tracks excavator, which my neighbor offered to rent me "if I could run it".
It took at least a minute and a half to figure out this was not going to be something I would successfully accomplish soon. As I said, ya hadta be there. It was fairly horrible.
Fortunately no actual damage was done, and I tucked my tail between my legs and got someone with a clue...not me!
Robin
First time I parked a boat wasn't all that pretty. In fact, I still get fowled up once in a great while. Some are ALOT easier than others, even if they are bigger.
Randy I agree with you and I think most of us would do the same thing. But for me at least I would buy an old one and restore / repair it if necessary, in my opinion the older machines were built to a higher standard than the new ones.
Take care