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Thread: A great reason to own a lathe
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21st Sep 2015, 11:21 AM #1Senior Member
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A great reason to own a lathe
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21st Sep 2015, 11:32 AM #2Most Valued Member
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21st Sep 2015, 12:22 PM #3
He has some pretty good video's as well, the pulse jet powered kettle is a ripper.
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21st Sep 2015, 12:45 PM #4Most Valued Member
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21st Sep 2015, 02:19 PM #5Most Valued Member
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Just showed SWMBO the clip, and told her that's why I need a new lathe, instead of the one that keeps breaking down. The reply "Yea right, whatever!!!" Don't like my chances though.
Kryn
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21st Sep 2015, 02:27 PM #6Most Valued Member
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21st Sep 2015, 07:53 PM #8
A lathe in the kitchen, the wife would love that.....not
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22nd Sep 2015, 04:44 AM #9
Now and then I wonder if I have "lost the plot." I see that He is a little further along that road. Still good video.
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22nd Sep 2015, 01:53 PM #10Most Valued Member
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I love the repowered Tuktuk, then the weaponry. That guy has one sick mind, but I like him for it.
Kryn
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26th Sep 2015, 08:46 AM #11Diamond Member
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At least his swarf tastes good.
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26th Sep 2015, 12:31 PM #12Golden Member
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Edible swarf - not as silly as it sounds!
Somewhere my wife has a vegetable lathe tucked away. It is, from memory, about 150 mm swing and 150 mm between centres, and is hand powered. The workpiece is mounted between a driving centre and a tubular dead centre. A shear type cutting tool takes a facing cut on the workpiece when the manual feed is engaged and produces copious quantities of brightly coloured swarf, the colours depending on the workpiece material.
Like some of my less successful past projects on the workshop lathes it is possible to keep turning until very little of the original workpiece remains, and most of the parent material has been reduced to swarf. So far I have never miked the swarf to check the consistency of the cut, but the tolerances for this job are fairly wide. At the low cutting speeds involved no coolant is necessary.
There is a short video of one in action here, click on "watch the video":
http://www.mtckitchen.com/p-308-benr...e-slicer.aspx#
Frank.
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