LanceC
22nd August 2020, 09:00 PM
Earlier in the week I was rough turning the inside one of my blanks. I had turned the outside a month or so ago, and got waylaid. Anyway I chucked it up in the morticed base from the last session and got busy hogging out the waste.
I know now in hindsight that the bowl will have moved, and that I should have put in back on the screw chuck and made the mortice round again. But I didn't.
Anyway, back to the story. There I was hogging out waste when I got a catch, and before I knew what had happened, my bowl was gone. All that was left were bits of wood where the mortice ring had sheered off the bowl.
I looked under and behind the lathe. I calculated a rough trajectory of where it may have rolled too and looked there. I wasn't turning very fast so didn't expect that it would have taken off, but as I was running short on options I searched the probable flight path, still with no luck.
Finally I started searching randomly, and when after fifteen minutes or so the bowl was still unaccounted for, I chalked it up to aliens, cleaned up, and went inside for coffee.
Fast forward to today, and needing to turn some hardwood wheels for my dad, I noticed that the chips weren't being sucked up by the dust extractor as well as I thought it should, when a glimpse of possibility entered my mind... But surely not.
After sticking my arm as far up the dust port as possible with no result, I unplugged the join where the rigid duct connects to the flex which runs to the DC, and wouldn't you know it, I found it wedged solid in the 90° bend.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200822/93aad94bd46bb963efd40e2655aba51b.jpg
So it flew off the lathe straight into the dust port, was sucked up 2 m of pipe, rounded the bend and traveled another 6 m where it entered the main trunk before finally coming to a stop in the nick of time. The next obstacle was the impeller of the extractor!
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Time to add a grate to the mouth of the BMH I think.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200822/343872b61e2b8ee4337e37e4750be1b7.jpg
I know now in hindsight that the bowl will have moved, and that I should have put in back on the screw chuck and made the mortice round again. But I didn't.
Anyway, back to the story. There I was hogging out waste when I got a catch, and before I knew what had happened, my bowl was gone. All that was left were bits of wood where the mortice ring had sheered off the bowl.
I looked under and behind the lathe. I calculated a rough trajectory of where it may have rolled too and looked there. I wasn't turning very fast so didn't expect that it would have taken off, but as I was running short on options I searched the probable flight path, still with no luck.
Finally I started searching randomly, and when after fifteen minutes or so the bowl was still unaccounted for, I chalked it up to aliens, cleaned up, and went inside for coffee.
Fast forward to today, and needing to turn some hardwood wheels for my dad, I noticed that the chips weren't being sucked up by the dust extractor as well as I thought it should, when a glimpse of possibility entered my mind... But surely not.
After sticking my arm as far up the dust port as possible with no result, I unplugged the join where the rigid duct connects to the flex which runs to the DC, and wouldn't you know it, I found it wedged solid in the 90° bend.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200822/93aad94bd46bb963efd40e2655aba51b.jpg
So it flew off the lathe straight into the dust port, was sucked up 2 m of pipe, rounded the bend and traveled another 6 m where it entered the main trunk before finally coming to a stop in the nick of time. The next obstacle was the impeller of the extractor!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200822/521274400286d541301af9619345d36a.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200822/c774d0bb8d96bb924c88e73d1874b9fb.jpg
Time to add a grate to the mouth of the BMH I think.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200822/343872b61e2b8ee4337e37e4750be1b7.jpg