moke
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I bought a Grizzly metal lathe and I am preparing to do kit-less, or maybe custom pens would be a more apt description. I intend to start as recommended by Ed in a recent thread and buy some less expensive kits to rob the parts.....clips, fountain pen inserts...etc....I think anyway.... Anyway, I have a few questions that I would like to post periodically for the brain trust here....
1. The head stock on the lathe ( Grizzly G0752z) is 1 3/4x8. I have a Laguana that is 1 1/4x8. I have a adapter to use all my 1x8 stuff from my previous lathe. It works great....( although someone said it is hard on the head-stock bearings) I would like to get an adapter to use the same chucks on the grizzly....short of making one, I can not find anything....which I am a LONG ways from being able to do yet....does anyone know where I can get one? I have a collet chuck, psi two jaw drilling chuck, and several others I would like to use. Or...is there such thing as a 8x1 to mt 2, 3 or 4 adapter. Or is the answer to forget these chucks and move on?
Using the 4 jaw chuck to drill seems like a huge PITA for square blanks....short of turning the blanks round on the wood lathe what do you guys use? Or do you just buy round blanks?
2. The lathe has a DRO....it is not as accuate as I assumed it would be....there is some backlash (?) --the cross slide slop, which I think I have adjusted out---well mostly, but the DRO seems to be off a .001 or .002 or so from the cross slide indicator on the wheel...but not consistently....is this as good as I can expect from a $100 or $200 DRO?
3. I bought a set of carbide insert tools and an extra set of inserts...are most of you using that or HSS?
4. I can't find any you-tube metal lathe for pens...perhaps I am searching the wrong things...any ideas?
Thank you in advance for your help...sorry for being such a rookie here...
for something that is so similar, it is really quite different!!!!
1. The head stock on the lathe ( Grizzly G0752z) is 1 3/4x8. I have a Laguana that is 1 1/4x8. I have a adapter to use all my 1x8 stuff from my previous lathe. It works great....( although someone said it is hard on the head-stock bearings) I would like to get an adapter to use the same chucks on the grizzly....short of making one, I can not find anything....which I am a LONG ways from being able to do yet....does anyone know where I can get one? I have a collet chuck, psi two jaw drilling chuck, and several others I would like to use. Or...is there such thing as a 8x1 to mt 2, 3 or 4 adapter. Or is the answer to forget these chucks and move on?
Using the 4 jaw chuck to drill seems like a huge PITA for square blanks....short of turning the blanks round on the wood lathe what do you guys use? Or do you just buy round blanks?
2. The lathe has a DRO....it is not as accuate as I assumed it would be....there is some backlash (?) --the cross slide slop, which I think I have adjusted out---well mostly, but the DRO seems to be off a .001 or .002 or so from the cross slide indicator on the wheel...but not consistently....is this as good as I can expect from a $100 or $200 DRO?
3. I bought a set of carbide insert tools and an extra set of inserts...are most of you using that or HSS?
4. I can't find any you-tube metal lathe for pens...perhaps I am searching the wrong things...any ideas?
Thank you in advance for your help...sorry for being such a rookie here...
for something that is so similar, it is really quite different!!!!
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