SteveRoberts
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Ok, what is the official record for number of time dropping the pin from the pin chuck into a waist deep pile of saw dust? Second question, what is the most time spent looking for it when dropped single drop and cumulative?
I get this lovely bit of kit from Fangar the other day, I know full well to avoid at all costs the wisdom and directions of those who have gone before me so I just plunge in, using my chuck for the second time ever and the first time in months I manage to grab the shank good so far.. then I notice my chuck has jaws that cause the pin to sit in too deep so I cut a tube to push the sizing bushing out past that chisel grabbing jaw and without much though drill and tube a somewhat longer blank *who me measure?*
I mount the blank and because I have not read the many accounts of how to do this and have turned many bottle stoppers with a screw chuck I don't bring up the tail stock and instead go to work. At this point dear reader it might be interesting to note that the mounted blank was of the most heavily stabilized BEB CSU has to offer, turns a little easier than cold rolled steel. Did I mention that the lathe is set to the usual 3900 rpm?
Touching it with the chisel I get nuck-nuck-chunk-whack-duck you stupid bugger sound and am very glad I am religeous with the wearing of my face shield. It doesn't come off but does go well out of anything resembling concentric. This process is repeated with two other blanks before I, like all frustrated craftsman, blame my tools and quit. Every time I pull a blank off I forget the pin is trying to flee for it's little pin life from this obvious mad man and it leaps heroic distances into the nearest silly-deep pile of lathe trimmings or atleast that is where I spend 45 minutes looking before finding it in the open about 3 feet away.
Today I read abit on the topic, brought up my tail stock and .... not perfect but it will do to scratch the itch, in all candor I prefer the cap post-abilty of the stock model but do like this look.
Steve
I get this lovely bit of kit from Fangar the other day, I know full well to avoid at all costs the wisdom and directions of those who have gone before me so I just plunge in, using my chuck for the second time ever and the first time in months I manage to grab the shank good so far.. then I notice my chuck has jaws that cause the pin to sit in too deep so I cut a tube to push the sizing bushing out past that chisel grabbing jaw and without much though drill and tube a somewhat longer blank *who me measure?*
I mount the blank and because I have not read the many accounts of how to do this and have turned many bottle stoppers with a screw chuck I don't bring up the tail stock and instead go to work. At this point dear reader it might be interesting to note that the mounted blank was of the most heavily stabilized BEB CSU has to offer, turns a little easier than cold rolled steel. Did I mention that the lathe is set to the usual 3900 rpm?
Touching it with the chisel I get nuck-nuck-chunk-whack-duck you stupid bugger sound and am very glad I am religeous with the wearing of my face shield. It doesn't come off but does go well out of anything resembling concentric. This process is repeated with two other blanks before I, like all frustrated craftsman, blame my tools and quit. Every time I pull a blank off I forget the pin is trying to flee for it's little pin life from this obvious mad man and it leaps heroic distances into the nearest silly-deep pile of lathe trimmings or atleast that is where I spend 45 minutes looking before finding it in the open about 3 feet away.
Today I read abit on the topic, brought up my tail stock and .... not perfect but it will do to scratch the itch, in all candor I prefer the cap post-abilty of the stock model but do like this look.
Steve
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