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Well Skew I took your advice and made a 240 mm dia semi circle and used that for a guide. Worked great!
Saw cuts not so much...... With my 3 mm straight flute cutter it makes an almost perfect cut...

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I need to make an interrupted cut, essentially like a dog clutch in some 18 mm MDF. It is approximately 240 mm OD and the "teeth" will be about 3 mm deep. So the minimum diameter will...

Its broken. There should be a hook on the outer end also

Cheers Phil

You dont say what size, but lpg cylinders make great shells.

Cheers Phil

My oil burner furnace gets to bronze temps. I have a refractory lined drum and it is holding up well. There is no unburned fuel on the furnace wall once the temp comes up. At the start it sprays a...

As the name implies this will be my first try at making a bowl shape. It actually isnt going to be a useable bowl as such but a small (40ish mm dia) hollow out of a contrasting hardwood and let into...

Rob,
Thats pretty interesting info there in that link. Thanks for that, although you ought to be ashamed of yourself for using a Koonunga Hill in that test. I am sure a cask red would have sufficed....

Hi Hutcho,
I always back up my spindle with something solid before whacking it with a hammer.
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Just crank the table up till it pushes on the bottom of the quill and bash away :)

ps is...

Yep,
Just knock the old bearing out and stick a new one in.
You should most likely pick up a new one at any bearing retailer or ag shop. Most towns have at least one.

Cheers Phil

Hi,
I have a slab of Raintree about 3m long and 1.5m wide at one end and 1m at the other, and 90mm thick. It is pretty close to quarter sawn, still got the bark on both edges. It was taken from...

Hi Rob,

Just had a look at your step by step in the link provided above, (thanks Geoff). "Impressive", comes to mind!
How resistant to water stains is the burnished finish. Will it stand up to...

Jordan,
As I understand it, register fit refers to the backplate/chuck interface and this needs to be close to ensure that the chuck mounts solidly and securely on the shoulder.
I can understand...

Rick, how about a tight fitting, short length of key, out of soft material, brass maybe, and grinding or filing the thread into the key so you have a complete threaded portion of your leadscrew for...

....long(ish) because at almost 50 I cant be waiting 30 years for a suitable tree.
I have recently purchased a small rural house block and have, (after the house, shed, chook run, bananas, vege...

Auskart,
I have recently rebuilt a hercus with a non matching tailstock number.
It was a "well worn" lathe and I did have my milling machine handy so I was able to tackle the issue of alignment...

Yep. Safety guards can be taken to the nth degree. Just take a look at drill presses with a guard around the chuck so you cant switch it on if the key is still in. of course it makes it awkward to...

Make sure you have a bit of relief from the cutting edge back to the trailing edge as well as a small lead in.

Cheers Phil

Yep, that, or if its in the evening, I tell them I am having trouble cooking a curry and ask them for advice, or a good recipe to use next time! Or if I havent got the time to waste I get my one of...

Dunno if they came in different bed lengths but my bolt spacing is 180mm x 792mm on a total bed length of about (bit awkard to measure)1010mm. Hope that helps.

Cheers Phil

Craig,
Would you consider a backyarder? I do a bit of bronze casting. Whats the biggest dimension of the parts are you talking about?

Cheers Phil

Hi Wolffie, Just outside Ingham.

Hi Jill, it is a carbide bit that has had minimal use. Probably not razor sharp, but pretty good nontheless. It is doing a good job on 90% of the edge, including...

Hi all,
I am making a wall plaque out of well seasoned, home milled, raintree.
It is about 240mm W x 450mm H x 35mm T with a radiused top. Looks a bit like a tombstone:). When I ran it through the...

Hi all,
I found this site while looking for information on my lathe.
The pics show what I bought and now the hard work begins.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/12_bolts/IMG_5058.jpg...

g'day I'm Phil from near Ingham, about 1 hour north of Townsville.
I do a bit of woodwork and metalwork. I found this site whilst searching for Hercus information on my latest acquisition, a...