jleiwig
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Can I drill a peppermill on the lathe without a bed extension? Jet 1220 BTW.
Getting ready to start some christmas presents. :biggrin:
Getting ready to start some christmas presents. :biggrin:
The mechanism I have used for years (and we sell on exotics) uses a 1 and 1/16" hole. Penn state sells a forstner bit that size for a few bucks (yes, we will get to adding this to exotics, but its not there yet).
I have a half dozen of their bits, sharpen them right before I start a peppermill and the process has gotten MUCH faster. Remember, when you say you are doing a 14" (pretty big!!) peppermill, the top is 3", so you are only drilling 11" with the bigger hole. Yes, it IS a pain, but they sell well.
Hope this helps.
Ok. Another question. They recommend 15/16", 1 1/16", 1 9/16", and 1 3/4" forstners, are these the sizes that you guys use on your pepper mills? Or are they too big or too small? According to the Woodcraft instructions, the parts for the crush grind are actually metric, so there may be some slop when using fractional forstners right?
And to further stabilize longer ones, I use a homemade steady rest (utilizing such high tech additions as rollerblade wheels mounted to glued and screwed two piece plywood circle and adjustable arms for the wheels and mounted to the lathe bed with toggle bolts through a scrap - it works).