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    Default A great reason to own a lathe


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    He has some pretty good video's as well, the pulse jet powered kettle is a ripper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RayG View Post
    He has some pretty good video's as well, the pulse jet powered kettle is a ripper.
    pity one needs to wear earmuffs tho

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore View Post
    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
    jump now while its fresh in her mind that she approved the expenditure........or you'll never get it...

    if you dont do it you'll never know if she was kidding or not

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    Quote Originally Posted by RayG View Post
    the pulse jet powered kettle is a ripper.
    Having owned a pulse jet in my youth, I can't believe he's running his "Jettle" indoors without earplugs!

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    A lathe in the kitchen, the wife would love that.....not

    Ratty 05/2004 -05/07/2010 COOPER 01/08/1998-31/01/2012

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    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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    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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    At least his swarf tastes good.

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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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