dparker
In Rembrance 8/2021
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Hello All: Back in the 60's I saw a small modelmakers lathe casting kit in Popular Science and ordered it. I finally built it in the late 70's and used it some for making a plastic model of a proposed Test Lab for the company I worked for. My Daughter and my Son played on it some when they were young and now I am doing some modifying on it to be able to make some of the parts for the "Miser". Some of those parts are really little! I am making some "hand graver" cutters and will make a tool rest like a wood lathe to use them with.
I bought a LMS 3" 4 jaw chuck (shown in another post) for this but it is really just a little too big to open the jaws very far, so I will just stick with the drill chuck for now.
The lathe does have graduated dials and the next picture shows somewhat how I did that. I made a block to mount a cutter (as described by Guy Lautard in his book "Strike While The Iron Is Hot". The chuck was measured for diameter and a strip of paper was laid out and divided with the desired number of divisions and taped to the chuck and a pointer was taped to the headstock. The scriber was set to cut in a few thousands deep and every ten was cut a little longer. I think Guy describes this in one of the Bedside Reader books also. The cutter does not show up very good but I tried to have it out where it could be seen rather than hid behind the headstock from where I took the picture.
This must be "old stuff" to many on this site but hopefully it may help somebody do some dividing or make a graduated dial on a lathe.
don
I bought a LMS 3" 4 jaw chuck (shown in another post) for this but it is really just a little too big to open the jaws very far, so I will just stick with the drill chuck for now.
The lathe does have graduated dials and the next picture shows somewhat how I did that. I made a block to mount a cutter (as described by Guy Lautard in his book "Strike While The Iron Is Hot". The chuck was measured for diameter and a strip of paper was laid out and divided with the desired number of divisions and taped to the chuck and a pointer was taped to the headstock. The scriber was set to cut in a few thousands deep and every ten was cut a little longer. I think Guy describes this in one of the Bedside Reader books also. The cutter does not show up very good but I tried to have it out where it could be seen rather than hid behind the headstock from where I took the picture.
This must be "old stuff" to many on this site but hopefully it may help somebody do some dividing or make a graduated dial on a lathe.
don