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Turning Tricks: Finding Center
🕑 Added 2018-06-16 03:11:05 +0000 UTC My first video about tricks I have learned in free machining on the lathe - This episode has me making a tool to be able to center my work in a four jaw chuck. Enjoy!
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Larry Taylor
There is no need for racially offensive terminology,
Fran Blanche
Yea, good but expensive. Maybe if FranLab gets fully funded....
Chuck Kirchner
Fran. One word. NOGA. Check out their tools. Maybe I've been watching Adam Booth and Keith Fenner too long, but your chuck is weird. The screws turn backwards. Probably made in Chinkistan. Still, that lathe should do you right and last a long time with its hardened ways. Keep it oiled (with way oil, not motor oil) and store the change gears in a waterproof container so they don't rust. Cheers....
Stefan
Guess: Very close asian cousin of the Emco Compact 8, with the very distinct lever on the left rear of the headstock.
Gordo
That is so cool Fran. I love seeing someone skilled working with wood. I'm more of an smd rework & Dremel kind of guy. Very informative :-)
William E Lee
By all means, enjoy it! Some of my happiest hours have been spend working at a lathe.
Fran Blanche
It is unbranded. Might have been a custom order design for a specific kind of operation. But I danno...
William E Lee
What make of lathe are you using?
Hi Fran. Very nice and simple construction out of your practice. Great job 👍 Thank you for sharing it.
hi Fran! Great video...so intresting. I worked as a grunt in a metal shop...grinding, cutting and moving metal around our shop. I always wanted to work the lathe! didn't know the value of finding center! sooo glad to be a patron!!! thanks again!!!
