Been Busy today

[londonsean69]

I found that with my lathes.

The carbide tooling was rubbish on the mini lathe, but works quite nicely on the Myford.

I treated myself to one of those indexable boring bars, with a 12mm shaft - can actually take a proper cut with it.

Hogging out the centres on my mushroom inserts took ages with the little lathe (hours), 25mins on the myford!!

[AshG]

i didnt bother turning my hub inserts. i managed to buy them in for less than the cost of the material from mnr.

i only tend to use the lathe when i cant buy something off the shelf or if i already have the material kicking around.

[flyerncle]

Nice one Ash,very informative and interesting and some of us oldies
understand the dark side of pointless ignition systems.

[londonsean69]

Originally Posted by AshG

i didnt bother turning my hub inserts. i managed to buy them in for less than the cost of the material from mnr.

i only tend to use the lathe when i cant buy something off the shelf or if i already have the material kicking around.

I did think about buying them in, but I also wanted to learn how to use the lathe.
Glad I did make them, even though they ended up too small through me just not concentrating

So I have to re-make them.