Thread: Lost bushing!!!

A slimline bushing? You can use a centre, but it'll end up as no good for anything else.

If you have small pieces of brass, corian, hard(ish) plastic or even a some fine-grained pen offcuts, it's easy enough to make your own bushes.

eliza u can get new bushings from qld w/working supplies or carbatec in brissy or source them interstate carrols , addictive

Yes, I'll get new ones tomorrow. Just that TODAY was the day put aside for pen turning!

I managed to get a few done, just turned it over half way through!

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

Yes, I'll get new ones tomorrow. Just that TODAY was the day put aside for pen turning!

I managed to get a few done, just turned it over half way through!

Just turn down a small piece of wood if nothing else. 6.5mm is about the bit size to fit an "A" mandrel, then just turn it down to the dimensions for the required bush, as long as you have a micrometer or something, you can get the sizes off one of the supplier sites somewhere.

Russell.

David was loading his truck today. May not be there tomorrow.

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

I managed to get a few done, just turned it over half way through!

Where there's a will, there's always a way!

I have a very useful tool called a floor sweep - it is a magnetic 'broom' type thing from Bunnings ~ $13. The main surface is a magnetised and about 15 x 5 cm and then the end of the handle it also a magnet. I use it mostly to pick up nail bits after the farrier has been but it is also very handy for finding things on the floor and in among shavings. Might be worth considering.

JD

I've used a metal detector to find a lost chuck screw
tried to find a 1A bush once with it - no luck - but then it had rolled/bounced across the other side of the (tidy) shed

advantage of having a metal lathe as well. Just make a new one.

I was putting a Churchill together last weekend and once again, the suppliers stuck all the wrong parts together in the packets. So I was pulling them all apart and the tiny little decorative silver ring flung off and rolled under my workbench with all the shavings and random bits of wood. 5 minutes of swearing and carefully moving 1 bit fo scrap at a time, and it showed up thank goodness. Not sure a magnet or metal detector would have picked that one up.

Russell.

It's when those little doodads fall down the 4" duct... and you can hear the rattle, clunk, tinkle, rattle through the ducts as it makes it's way towards the impeller on your DC that the cussing really starts.

Even worse when it's the screws from your chuck jaws...

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

It's when those little doodads fall down the 4" duct... and you can hear the rattle, clunk, tinkle, rattle through the ducts as it makes it's way towards the impeller on your DC that the cussing really starts.

Even worse when it's the screws from your chuck jaws...

That has never happened to me!! Maybe I should hitch the DC up.

I gave up trying to make an efficient pickup for while I was turning, so I settled for a floor-sweep under the lathe.

That's just a scoop that sits on the floor, so you can sweep your curlies straight into it. (Along with everything else that fell on the floor.)

Of course, Murphy's Law dictates that any small screw, fitting or whatever I dropped always fell directly in front of the sweep and... SLUUURP!