My First Lathe

**Woodturnerjosh** · 4th April 2016, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by DaveTTC

I was at a turning workshop on the weekend and was bitterly dissappointed with the vicmarc slow grinder. It got a reasonable usage but by no means flat it out. The thing got so hot you not test your hand on the top.

Not sure what brand mine is. Just a garage sale cheapy. Well it was $50 abiut 10 years ago. I have never noticed it get hot.

Would like to know if others have had the vicmarc get hot. The one in question I believe had new bearings fitted by vicmarc do to the issue and still gets hot. Given there is not much load and especially when running CBN wheels this just does not seem right to me.

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Mine gets really hot too and apparently the Axminster version also gets really hot. I've had hit running non-stop on a couple of projects and it doesn't effect it. As there are no cooling fins and no air flow (I had Makita grinder that had air vents and internal fans for cooling) it's going to heat up but unless it gets over 150 degrees (that's the temp that motors are baked out to during overhaul and for the varnish to set) it shouldn't hurt it.

**crowie** · 4th April 2016, 09:39 PM

Well done Dirk, You mentioned your play money was limited...Sell the boat son, you can always buy a bigger one later.... Enjoy the new lathe and always ensure it's fun and not a chore....Cheers, Peter

**Mobyturns** · 5th April 2016, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by Pat

Have fun and stay safe. Sharpening is a function of turning, not the reason for turning.

Tool collecting is the reason for wood turning.

Dirk is off to a great start ..... on that long slippery slope.

**Dirk_Pittwater** · 5th April 2016, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by crowie

Well done Dirk, You mentioned your play money was limited...Sell the boat son, you can always buy a bigger one later.... Enjoy the new lathe and always ensure it's fun and not a chore....Cheers, Peter

No, can't sell the boat. Life's a race to see who gets the most toys isn't it

I'll just have to use the lathe to do a couple of cash projects to pay for more toys.

I've also noticed my toy's seem to get bigger the older I get. The scary thing is I'll have to start looking for property soon. Then I won't be buying any toys for a few years after that

**Christos** · 5th April 2016, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Dirk_Pittwater

No, can't sell the boat. Life's a race to see who gets the most toys isn't it........

No grasshopper it's not.....

**Bushmiller** · 5th April 2016, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by Dirk_Pittwater

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I've also noticed my toy's seem to get bigger the older I get.

Dirk

You may well have heard that boys never grow up and it is an argument that is well founded. It is frequently touted about by the female of the species without due regard to what sensitive creatures we are and how easily we are offended. Fortunately there is an incontrovertible indicator in that the toys not only get bigger, but significantly, more expensive.

Welcome to beginning of a new age, for you that is

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Regards
Paul

**Pat** · 5th April 2016, 06:20 PM

"The scary thing is I'll have to start looking for property soon. Then I won't be buying any toys for a few years after that"

Good, you can join the rest of us broke beings

**Dirk_Pittwater** · 5th April 2016, 09:01 PM

Update from this afternoons efforts.

Sharpened some more spindle and bowl gouges so there ready to go when I get the lathe in the next few weeks.
The wait is killing me!

Next thing on the list was to have a look at the ("sh*t" acording to the guys that worked for us) grinder we have.
Every time I used it the only thing that I could pick wrong was you had to spin the wheel alittle every now and then to get it going. Noone had bothered to do anything about it so it just got shoved in the corner.
This is when I bought the tormek system for myself.

So after rubbing the WARNING wear saftey glasses sticker off there was the golden ticket.

You beauty. It still has the original wheels that came with it.

That means I HAVE to upgrade to 2 cbn wheels.

So I thought if I'm going to get the cbn wheels I can't leave it in this filthy state so it was time to break it down.

Time flys when your having fun. Dinner was calling so the cleanup process will begin again tomorrow afternoon and I will need to get a new capacitor as I think thats the problem with startup.

Thanks to all your input and turns out Dad made a good investment all those many years ago. Good to know that they were built to last.
Just out of curiosity can anyone put a date to this grinder?

Cheers
Dirk.

**Pittwater Pete** · 9th April 2016, 11:13 AM

Dirk & I are at Resser (Earn's down in Melbourne) picking up Dirks new Vicmark lathe. Earn has been a real champion and is giving Dirk some valuable lessons. Thanks Earn.
Here's a few pics.

**Pittwater Pete** · 9th April 2016, 11:55 AM

**Pittwater Pete** · 9th April 2016, 11:57 AM

Turning some Norfolk Island Pine

**Bushmiller** · 9th April 2016, 12:59 PM

Is Ern included with the lathe purchase?

Regards
Paul

**chambezio** · 9th April 2016, 01:15 PM

I'm sorry but that's not Earn!!! Earn is a tall, thin 6'3" fellow with fair hair and no beard!!

Well that's the picture I have in my mind when I read his comments. It's always interesting to meet up with someone you have been conversing with for a while and not physically seeing them. I am usually wrong with my mental pictures

**rsser** · 9th April 2016, 01:54 PM

It was a pleasure to take Dirk through some basics. He's got great tool control and is relaxed and confident at the machine.

Good to see it go to the next gen of turners.

**rsser** · 9th April 2016, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by chambezio

I'm sorry but that's not Earn!!! Earn is a tall, thin 6'3" fellow with fair hair and no beard!!

Yeah Chambezio you're right, that is how I look, after midday.

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