Sometimes we can't see the wood for the trees, or in my case, the nuts for the bolts:biggrin:
I was chatting to Fred 'Big Shed' and was telling him how I was trying to figure out a way to mount a small grinder to my lathe.
His reply was, and I quote......
'Jeesh!!!! You stupid Half-Cast Welsh Pommie plonker!!!! Just use a Dremel!!!'
Of course he didn't say it like quite like that:wink:.
So after hours of playing with the gears on my lathe, I eventually arranged the gears to do about 0.25TPI.
There is no way a machine can handle that kind of torque so with the lathe off, I attached a crank to the leadscrew.
The inside of the pen was done before the tapering and Dremel cuts:wink:
This is what I came up with. 8 cuts around the pen.
I'm pretty chuffed with it, though it took a lot of sanding and polishing:biggrin:
I was chatting to Fred 'Big Shed' and was telling him how I was trying to figure out a way to mount a small grinder to my lathe.
His reply was, and I quote......
'Jeesh!!!! You stupid Half-Cast Welsh Pommie plonker!!!! Just use a Dremel!!!'
Of course he didn't say it like quite like that:wink:.
So after hours of playing with the gears on my lathe, I eventually arranged the gears to do about 0.25TPI.
There is no way a machine can handle that kind of torque so with the lathe off, I attached a crank to the leadscrew.
The inside of the pen was done before the tapering and Dremel cuts:wink:
This is what I came up with. 8 cuts around the pen.
I'm pretty chuffed with it, though it took a lot of sanding and polishing:biggrin:
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