Metal Mickey
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This isn't one for the 'old sweats' more for the like of me 'novices'. Its not even mine but it does work and its so simple! Well it nearly always works and is 200% better than I have achieved before.
Get on with it man I here you say....OK, how do you turn down to size every (nearly) time? You take the cuts you would normally make until you get near to size. Then measure the work piece and halve the amount to take off. You keep doing this until you are a thou away when you can either take a light cut or polish off as it were.
It seems simple but it does really work! I read it in a recent UK model engineering magazine (don't ask me which). Anyway, try it and you will be surprised. I was. ;D
Get on with it man I here you say....OK, how do you turn down to size every (nearly) time? You take the cuts you would normally make until you get near to size. Then measure the work piece and halve the amount to take off. You keep doing this until you are a thou away when you can either take a light cut or polish off as it were.
It seems simple but it does really work! I read it in a recent UK model engineering magazine (don't ask me which). Anyway, try it and you will be surprised. I was. ;D