BeeAMaker
Member
Don't like drilling my blanks on a Drill Press. I see a lot of people here like to use the Lathe so I got me a Drill chuck to give it a try.
Slowed the Lathe down to about 500 rpm, Clamped my blank into the lathe chuck, put my drill bit in the drill chuck and put it in the Tail stock and went to town.
All started out good. Then the Drill chuck started to spin. I had to back out and re-set the drill chuck. Go about half way and the blank (acrylic) and bit started to squeal. I backed out, cleared the bit, all good, slowly went back in. More squealing and again the drill chuck started to spin in the tail stock.
I shut down and started to back out - tail stock won't budge. I release the jaws on my head stock and sure enough, the Acrylic blank in "welded" to the drill bit. After several attempts to free the bit, I finally resorted to shattering the blank just to get it off the bit. The words I was saying to it certainly didn't help.
I think I got a bit over excited LOL, it was drilling so nice and I didn't back out often enough to clear the bit. (things like this is why I almost always buy 2 blanks) Chucked up my "back up" blank and gave it another run. Backing out more often and slowing down to about 400 rpm, The second time went much smoother.
Only thing I can think of that I did wrong was not backing out often enough. I'm glad it it was an inexpensive blank.
Slowed the Lathe down to about 500 rpm, Clamped my blank into the lathe chuck, put my drill bit in the drill chuck and put it in the Tail stock and went to town.
All started out good. Then the Drill chuck started to spin. I had to back out and re-set the drill chuck. Go about half way and the blank (acrylic) and bit started to squeal. I backed out, cleared the bit, all good, slowly went back in. More squealing and again the drill chuck started to spin in the tail stock.
I shut down and started to back out - tail stock won't budge. I release the jaws on my head stock and sure enough, the Acrylic blank in "welded" to the drill bit. After several attempts to free the bit, I finally resorted to shattering the blank just to get it off the bit. The words I was saying to it certainly didn't help.
I think I got a bit over excited LOL, it was drilling so nice and I didn't back out often enough to clear the bit. (things like this is why I almost always buy 2 blanks) Chucked up my "back up" blank and gave it another run. Backing out more often and slowing down to about 400 rpm, The second time went much smoother.
Only thing I can think of that I did wrong was not backing out often enough. I'm glad it it was an inexpensive blank.