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I had to do the same thing to my second hand Nova 3000, except my "shims" were 16 gauge gal steel sheet. I still need to go back and fine-adjust the horizontal alignment.

Colin

Hi guys

I am making a pair of drawer fronts for the caravan, from 12mm thick ply about 350mm square. The plastic edging they have sold me is 2mm thick and does not seem to be pre-glued. Can...

Some more thoughts -

Basic physics suggests that for the best rotational inertia you should aim for reasonably heavy wood, in a squat shape so that as much of the weight as possible is towards...

Hi Guys

see the pic below:

the two tops are about 40mm diameter, made from recycled hardwood so they have a bit of weight. The shaft is about 9 mm. The critical thing is to get a concentric...

Hi Ian

The jig is really only about being able to hold the chuck still in a known position while you do whatever to the workpiece.

The Vicmark chuck has 24 numbered indexing holes equally...

Hi Nai and others

attached is a pic of the indexing jig I made for my MC900 - it clamped down to the bed and had a pointed screw that wound up into the indexing holes around the outside of the...

Hi Tiger

I would most likely do this with an aluminium ring out of a VCR hot-glued to the piece of board - heat the ring up on an old iron, apply the glue straight onto the face of the ring...

Thanks again to the forumites who passed on their comments.

I bit the bullet and bought a new BP355 last Saturday (getting the 10% WWW show discount) and spent a couple of hours getting it into...

Hi Sydney People

I know from other threads that there are plenty of forumites out there interested in camphor laurel. The information below has been circulated from the Secretary of the Sydney...

Hi TT

I would echo a lot of what has been said above. I had a Hafco WL-18 for 7 years or so, up until earlier this year, when I picked up a second hand Technatool 3000 at a good price. Not because...

Well done everyone for the time you put into the Forum stand and Neil for sponsoring it.

I was there for a while about lunch-time on Friday - had a bit of a chat with Sawdustmaker and graemet...

Hi and thanks for the responses

Geoff, I also looked at the Basato 4 at H&F the other weekend. I know at least a couple of forumites have them and like them, but I did feel that the support...

Hi guys

I will be there on Friday as well - I am demonstrating on the SWTG stand for a couple of hours in the morning, then free to wander.

Not having met any of you guys (except Alistair and...

Hi guys

I am thinking about getting a Hafco BP355 (14") bandsaw to replace my old 12" Paulcall. I don't use it intensively but I would like something with a decent depth of cut.

I had a look...

Wow - this discussion is really going to stretch the brain!

I agree our preferred medium is far more variable than metal or plastic, and so is our freehand tool handling technique, compared with...

Hi all

With my (old) Mechanical Engineer's hat on, I would have to reckon there was some basic physics at work when we are playing with different shapes and angles of cutting edges.

As an...

Hi guys

I have a couple of tools (bowl gouge and spindle gouge) from Gorgi Armen of Harbord in Sydney who trades as Hycut tools. In my judgment they are as good as the P&Ns that I have, and they...

Hi Grant

We had Ernie Newman from the Blue Mountains Woodturners demonstrating manual thread chasing at our woodturning group meeting a few years ago now. Have a look at his web site at:

e r n...

Hi everyone

I am thinking about buying one of Gary Pye's GPW100 scroll chucks - they are $20 off at the moment.

Gary Pye Woodturning :: Gary Pye Woodturning - Gen 3 GPW100 Chuck

I found a...

Hi all

A picture of my latest pepper and salt mill set attached - if they are not number 59 & 60 since 2003 it is close to that.

I'm sure a lot of you have done many pepper / salt mills over...

Hi Tiger

do you need me to loan you a bigger hammer?

I think from memory I punched the shaft out. There is electrical stuff inside the rings that you generally have to break out.

cheers,...

Hi Tiger

as an alternative you could try the aluminium disk out of a VCR - it's part of the tape reading system, and when you pull a VCR apart there are usually a fixed one and a free-spinning...

Hi Ern

good to see that you are back to the wood dancing. Sounds like you have a good excuse for lots of lathe time - you need the practice.

cheers, Colin

Hi guys

Gil - I've just this week acquired some Vermec adapters to mount Vicmark pin jaws on a Bonham chuck. The locating rings and recesses on the adapter plates were a very good fit radially,...

Hi there Beetle, welcome to the furum


"Your in good company up there a few snobby forumites like Ozkaban and Sawdustmaker live that way "

from another Berowra-ite.

At this rate we could...

Sound's like the party's at Dave's place? ( have to be in the carport - wouldn't all fit in the shed).

Colin

My Hafco WL18 was bought new in 2003, which means Jet was selling their equivalent alongside Hafco, Carba-tec et al. It's interesting that the one on eBay is listed as 6 speed, where the MC900/WL18...

Now is this the Jet version of the Chinese MC900/WL18, or is this the one the Chinese copied?


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I wonder if it might be something to do with the shape of the scroll jaws and the number of points of contact when the jaws are opened well beyond the point of the perfect circle? In expansion mode...

Hi all

I've been taking part in this Forum for a while, and you get to know some of the names - , Tea Lady, Ken, etc - but people generally don't blow their own trumpets (well not much), so...

Hi all

Like Brendan, I make pepper mills and I hold the knob by its finished spigot while I shape and finish the curved top. I use a spigot diameter of 38mm (1 1/2"), partly because I have a...

I'm with Tea Lady - I just undercut the recess a little with the long point of the skew used as a scraper. The angle of the skew is a bit steeper than the angle of the taper on the shark jaws on my...

Hi all

I think the one Dave mentioned as going for about $800 a couple of months ago is the one I bought. It came with two bed extensions and the stand but nothing else, but I was happy with the...

For what its worth, I made a couple of scrapers out of an old handsaw blade a few years ago after we saw them demonstrated at a Guild meeting - one with straight edges and corners just under and just...

Hi all

I know this is a topic that has been raised a few times, but I now have the definitive info:

Vermec (Vermec) makes adapter plates that will let you mount Vicmark VM90/100 jaws on a...

Hi Chuck

thanks for the interesting description and pictures. And well done on your presentation - I found it easy to follow, except I had to pull out the calculator to work out that 1 17/32" is...

Sounds like its a common problem with the MC series lathes. I only had to do it once in about 7 years, so can't complain too much.

I had a similar problem with my H&F dusty, altho it was not the...

Hi Silly Sandra

I had a similar problem with the magnetic switch on my Hare & Forbes WL18 (a MC900 clone). I took the switch apart and found that sawdust had been getting onto it from the back,...

I've been doing an in depth study on this for ages. Ankle depth, actually :D No idea about the rust but they certainly do soak up the moisture on the floor...

And if you turn some Camphor Laurel...

Hi all

The Hornsby WTG has a Leady which we use for all the demos. The extension bed hinges at the tailstock end and is held up by a pair of tubular legs that clamp in place. It has quite a small...

Hi all

anyone in northern Sydney after a disk / belt sander? This is a Paulcall on its own stand. Probably a bit old, but if it's as good as my old Paulcall bandsaw it'd be OK.

cheers, Colin
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Hi all

we had Bruce Leadbeater as a demonstrator at the Hornsby group a few years ago and he showed his expansion chuck then. As I recall it was designed for use in schools - as you say, Dave, to...

Speak of the devil - a Hafco and a green one!

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Hi all

I just discovered the eBay listing below - a Chinese MC-900 painted grey and branded Ryobi. That makes at least 5 colours I've seen them in - blue (Carba-tec), blue & cream (Hafco), Orange...

Hi all

I just had to go and count them - 22, including a few I should never have bought, and a pair of Ernie Newman thread chasers I've used about twice. Like most other people, I use maybe 5 or...

Hi Dave

Well done on the purchase. If you need a trailer for the pickup, give me a call.

cheers, Colin

Hi Adam

going back to the question of what chucks you have got, I notice there's a contact name and phone number in the eBay ad - why don't you ring Roy and ask him about them, now that you know a...

Hi Dave

sorry to hear you've knocked yourself around - glad it wasn't worse.

all from just one moment of reduced attention on the whirling wood - it is so easy to do!

may you be back at it...

Last tip, Brad

If your scroll chuck has jaws with a taper or a lip to help grip things, you should use a HSS skew or scraper to slightly undercut the collar on the VCR ring to minimise the...

Hi again Brad

I just had a quick look in the pile under the bench and found another small bowl blank with a glue ring already attached. See the first photo.

The second pic shows it mounted in...