Lathe question
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Another chuck.
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Chuck - Rear Chuck for Metal Lathe - Cue Man Billiard Products
Rear chuck for metal lathe, with micro screw adjusting back plate. This chuck is the same 1.4" bore self centering 3 jaw chuck we use on our Deluxe Cue Smith, but it has a special back plate with adjustable centering screws for easy accurate rear spindle mounting on many metal lathes and some...
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Freddy Fuzzmore
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I used wooden wedges the few times I've used a lathe. Once in place I wrap tape around them.
I have an assortment of split plastic bushings for the tip end.
I have an assortment of split plastic bushings for the tip end.
Rear chuck or rear collet. If you can't hold your workpiece, you shouldn't be working on it. Take a machining class
A lathe is a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands. Even a small one. Needless to say I don’t use them. I know better.
Fatboy<——-still has all his fingers
The book on the website linked above is also a good starter resource.
A chuck or a spider are the most common ways to align something at the back of the headstock. Sometimes you have to leave the door open most lathes have there to have room but you do need a precision fixture that can be aligned or perhaps a cone shaped piece of plastic, Depends on your equipment.
If you consider how far out a component has to be accurate, about thirty inches, we make some sick demands on crude equipment a lot of times. A four feet piece of drill rod one inch diameter isn't too expensive. I use one for a great deal of my lathe set-up.
Hu
If you consider how far out a component has to be accurate, about thirty inches, we make some sick demands on crude equipment a lot of times. A four feet piece of drill rod one inch diameter isn't too expensive. I use one for a great deal of my lathe set-up.
Hu
Truth!
PracticeChampion
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I have a small metal lathe and I used a small piece of old lathe dove tail that was laying around and I blocked it up and used a steady rest
I sometimes use my left hand as a steady rest when replacing ferrules on house cues.
I hate watching a video and the operator is wearing jewelry, no face, eye protection, loose clothing. And women with their hair down operating power tools…lathe/scroll saw.
The older machine shops in the oil patch often don't have climate control, some aren't even fully enclosed and most are metal buildings. I was helping out in a machine shop when we had one of these cold snaps. A lathe operator in another machine shop about ten miles away got his jacket caught in the chuck or what he was cutting on. He was too slow to hit the foot brake or perhaps it wasn't functioning. Whatever happened his head ended up in the chuck and it was a closed coffin funeral.
Hu
I’m on a pen forum. Spindle lathes. Some of the work habits… holding the tail stock drill chuck and other unsafe things. Me? I keep my left hand on my nuts to protect them in case something flies.
That should be in a training film. Anyway to all readers … safety first. Each and every time.
I designed that rear chuck sleeve for my lathe
I'd quit cue making if I can't use that.
I have a video of a guy using a big lathe in a Chinese factory. It’s maybe 20-25’ long. His sleeve gets caught and pulls him in. It ends bad. He ends up being spaghetti sauce in about 30 seconds. It’s beyond brutal-wow. There was nothing left of him-nothing.
When those lathes are on auto-feed, they are freaking deadly.
Bill Stroud's partner had her hair caught by the chuck and she was scalped.