Recent posts
- belt dressing, the can in the drawer from the previous guy
Tension first. A dressed glazed belt still slips, and the dressing ends up on the pulleys and then on your hands and then on the work. If t…
- threading 16tpi, half nuts sound wrong at the end
What he said. And lock the carriage lock when you're facing, not when you're threading. People mix that up and then blame the gearbox.
- the diagonal is not a personality, and yet
Leave it. It's shorter than the version people post instead.
- r.ostrom's text file of links, we know
Leave him alone. The link is shorter than the thread that happens without it.
- power feed kicks out halfway down a 6 inch shaft
Something is kissing. A carriage lock not quite off, a chip under the stop collar, or the feed clutch wearing and giving up under a cut it…
- file in the lathe, I know, I'm still asking
Two tenths is a cut, not a file. Filing is how you make it oval and how you put grit in the bed. Left hand on the left, sleeves nowhere nea…
- five thou a side and it still squeals
Dusty and shiny is rubbing. Five thou with a tool that still has a heel, or a tool above center, will rub and sing. Look at the flank. Then…
- leveling a 9A on a wood floor
January is the wood. If the cut is fine, leave it. If you're chasing tenths, get off the timber. The brace didn't fail.
- eli, 9 inch, please don't make me redo this
Swing and year, then we'll talk. You already named the swing. Look up the serial and edit it in when you have it. You don't need a crisis.
- left hand tool to face up to a shoulder
Same angles, mirrored, on center. It digs for the same reason the other one digs. Heel, or below center. Don't invent a new problem for it.
- carl again, different lathe
Cabinet or bench? And don't call a heavy 10 a 9 if the seller was creative.
- what angle are you actually grinding on HSS
About 10 degrees of side relief, 10 of front, a few degrees of back rake if you want it to cut mild without a fight. The stone will lie to…