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5th Jul 2019, 07:00 PM #1
What do use your lathe for?
What's the main thing you use your lathe for?
Mine is for my model and toy steam engine hobby/addiction.
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5th Jul 2019, 08:00 PM #2Most Valued Member
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Buying beer
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5th Jul 2019, 08:12 PM #3Most Valued Member
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I use my lathe to make accessories for my lathe.
I've also made two model diesel engines, titanium pens as gifts for friends, repaired lots and lots of "stuff", made various fittings for a router table, repaired the blade rise/fall on my table saw, made parts for a drill press mod, turned wood a few times, go kart parts, motorcycle parts. Mostly small stuff.Chris
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6th Jul 2019, 05:13 AM #4
Hi Guys,
Oddly enough as part of making tools to make more tools ! You can never have too many toolsBest Regards:
Baron J.
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6th Jul 2019, 11:42 AM #5
One day I may do an engine, you don't know how many times people ask if I'm into trains/model engines etc.
Anything really, last week I made a extension handle for the neighbours Bunnings log splitter as the handle was to short and made operation hard.
A month or so before that a shaft to couple a 18hp Chinese motor to a onga 1.5hp pump for a bore.
I also made the resessed flanges welded to a tube to couple the housing but didn't grab pictures. This was before I heated and shrank fit it, so took the pictures to show the guy the inside keyway.
In between I make tools and fix anything around that's needed or thought up to modify.
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6th Jul 2019, 02:51 PM #6
I use my lathe to make the bits and pieces needed in the reloading chain for my blackpowder muzzleloader rifle.
This includes a stainless steel loading rod and the various brass jags needed for ramming the ball and patch and for cleaning the residue fouling from the rifling between shots.
Quite a few muzzleloaders especially on the firing range these days forgo the traditional wooden ramrod for something more substantial. hence stainless rods.
To explain further, the cleaning jag needs to be fairly well matched to the diameter of the ball its cleaning patch to effectively clean out the rifling grooves.
Hence an accurately firing muzzleloader rifle.
Like BaronJ my lathe is also utilised to make tools to fix or adjust other tools.
Grahame
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6th Jul 2019, 05:21 PM #7
Making custom motorcycle parts, making more tools, jigs etc and just repairing stuff for myself and others.
Hafco AL320G Lathe
Toolex RF31 Mill/Drill
Saber Bandsaw
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6th Jul 2019, 08:24 PM #8
Fixing things - a knurled headed bolt today, a bearing spacer, bushes and stepped bolts for the old farm trailer, jigs to repair the old ute
Tools - a bearing press for my sons school
Teaching my son - he then made parts for his past entries in the Victorian model solar vehicle challenge
I started an oscillating steam engine -- but the fixing has taken over
Learning new things -- tried screw cutting a metric thread today and learnt to cut it a bit deeper before running the die over it. sigh, it is not quite as true as I would have liked but the vice grips have a new lease on life.cheers
David
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6th Jul 2019, 10:37 PM #9Senior Member
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Odds and ends.. Probably the most fun thing I made was a scuba diving torch.. I machined the battery canister out of acetal and the light head was machined from aluminium.. I learned a bit from that process.. turning, boring, internal threading and external threading, grooving.
I also practiced by making little projects for the lathe.. a ball turner, a bumping tool to help true parts quickly without a dial indicator and a few other little bits and pieces..
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7th Jul 2019, 10:07 AM #10
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7th Jul 2019, 03:32 PM #11Senior Member
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What do use your lathe for?
Turning round into square. Though I am getting better.
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7th Jul 2019, 07:29 PM #12
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7th Jul 2019, 08:18 PM #13Diamond Member
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I don't really have a main thing that I use my lathe for. Repaired machinery, bored pulleys so as I can key them, made shafts, bushes, cut threads etc.
All The Best steran50 Stewart
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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