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WSo ugly and inelegant, like many US made up words like 'pled' instead of pleaded, 'dove' instead of dived,' snuck' instead of sneaked...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Regarding a dead center in the tailstock, And generic "oil" is often sub-optimal. The classic solution is white lead paste, but this...
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WThe centre Insert tool is not a thread cutter the angle is to big but is used for turning down bar stock as are the one on the left and...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Ah, Dalboy is right. I thought it looked fat, but my brain was not completely engaged when I posted. Not a geometry I use for diameter...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Ok, now we're getting somewhere. The carbide-insert tool you used is (at best) a threading tool. If you swing your toolpost over...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Heh - I think you have a vastly over-optimistic opinion of the engineering under the hood of commodity Chinese machine tools :-) The...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Do be aware that 1018, one of the more common steels you'll find as what I think you'd call "black mild steel" ("hot rolled" over here)...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Ah, never mind - you're absolutely right, I missed that it was a DC drive! Thanks for pointing that out. I think if you look closely...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Everyone starts somewhere! This (carbide needs deeper cuts) is partially an old-wives tale. It's closer to the truth to say that the...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.Hi John, The (not terribly detailed) schematic does show a whole-system-shutdown switch in the Forward/Reverse/Stop block, so I suspect...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.A quick look at what I think is your lathe's supposed schematic, and it appears that the Forward/Reverse/0 switch is intended to let you...
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Wwillray replied to the thread Newbie needs advice about a lathe.With all due respect, no. Unless you are using some kind of servo (or I suppose stepper) drive system, "zero RPM" to the controller...
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WBack in the seventies I ran a double home-still consisting of two stainless steel 150 liter vessels that I had welded. All the...
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WI think the 6% figure in your reference refers to the volumetric shrinkage. Linear shrinkage is more like up to 2% for aluminium, 1% for...
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WI'll chime in here in a couple areas, The compressed air's only purpose is atomization, fuel flow is based on the pressure between the...
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