Thread: Lathe Rest or WIP

where's the pics Christos come on braggin rights

Oh you have some sales coming up in the next 3 weeks H&F, Trend, Carba usually also best get your skates on do the rounds tool up quick.

Currently only have four chisels for the lathe, 25mm bowl gouge, 10mm bowl gouge, 25mm skew and something that I have no idea what is it.

I should post a photo but alas I am not at home. About 10mm wide and coming to a point with angles of 45 degrees on both sides, I am guessing a scraper.

Parting tool. That 25mm bowl gouge could well be a Spindle Roughing Gouge.

Christos if the bevel grind is under of the V diamond point 45 deg tool its a scraper of sorts
If the grind is horizontal to the V its as said a parting tool

Think it's a scraper.

Will take photos of the tools that I managed to aquire.

I started a new thread for confirmation on the chisels.


https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/tur...6/#post1395076

Haven't checked in here for a while so missed all the action.

Great result Christos, well done on the restoration. Hope you're enjoying the turning!

Thanks for the reply. Just posted some items on this thread. https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/tur...ml#post1400336

Just when you thought that it was safe to get out of the thread I dragged you back in.

Not really to do with the lathe restore but part of the use of the lathe. The main use of the lathe has been thus far to turn between centers. Several weeks ago I got to thinking that I should make a decision on a chuck, I ended up at Wood-eze.

The chuck that I purchased was the GPW chuck with the 1inch x 10 thread insert. I picked up a thread gage from another turner thus allowing me to have this thread gage present to check the insert. When I got home I tried the insert and it would not go pass a certain position. It would turn about three times and not sit any further. As I had not been able to determine why, I decided that it would be best to take the spindle out of the lathe and visit Wood-eze to try other inserts.

While at Wood-eze there had been a rush of customers. One before me and about three after I arrived. All of them got to chatting to me on the issue that I had been having. Thinking that it was just a matter of filing down a little of the thread as a burl might be stopping it form seating further. Leigh from Wood-eze passed on to me a file to give that a try. This did not resolve the issue.

Two of the later clients that had been observing and chatting to me had offered to help.

Lets pause for a moment here and reflect on what I am saying. Two people that I had not met before and neither had met each other had offered to assist with my problem. That in itself would be amazing but there is more to this story or should I now say path / journey.

After a few days I called the first person who offered to help and confirmed a date and time. I arrived at this fellows house with spindle and insert as these two parts needed to be match together.

Mounted the spindle on the metal lathe and at the slowest speed put the file to thread one side then the other. This insert still resisted to sit any further then it had in the pass. Tried several more times and with the same results.

The next option was to remove the tip of the thread and this would mean no going back. By this time I was at the stage of buying a new spindle. The tip of the thread was removed with the exact same result.

Now the frustration started to set in. At this stage Bob mention that he had a person that might suggest what could be done. We headed inside and gave this person a call. It is an old lathe and I was expecting the worst. Bob's friend gave me another contact. I thanked both Bob and his friend for the assistance and decided that I give the new contact a call that afternoon.

I called and arranged for him to look at my spindle, he was not able to assist and came up with the suggestion to try McJings for a different insert as the pitch of the thread might be the issue. We did try this at Wood-eze a few days back but as I had already transverse Sydney why not.

The time now was close to 5pm and I thought that McJings closes at 5pm. I called to confirm what time they closed, confirmed it will be 5pm. They said that they will stay open until 5:15 as I was close but stuck in traffic. So I continued on my way with the ever present thought of driving on the footpath, it's just that pedestrians get in the way.

There was a break in traffic and I made it to McJings with a few minutes before 5pm. I told them what I was after and with their assistance we tried several inserts.

It was suggested to use a die to rethread the spindle. After searching for a few minutes one was found(the only one) and the housing was also located(again the only one,makes sense). I purchase this and went on my way.

I was more relaxed but not sure if this was going to work so to not waste the trip out to Woop Woop I stopped and visited my mum on the way back. Mums question was why are you visiting at this hour? So I told her the story thus far.

The next fews days was busy with work and I was not able to get anything attempted with the spindle.

The time came to give this a twirl, with this spindle wrapped in cloth in the metal work vise I gave it a quarter turn then back a little. Another quarter turn and this time a bit of metal came off. I guess I was a bit excited and removed the die and tried the insert, success.

The insert went on and sat firmly flush to the end.



I am not sure if all who helped on that day will read this thread. I have personally updated some but not sure if all would have been aware. When our paths cross again it will a discussion and my thanks for their help.

I meet some amazing people while indulging in this hobby some are part of this story and I hope to meet more.

On a personally level I hope to be the person who amazes someone thus continuing to support each another.

If thats a 1x10 thread and you bought a die Christo all you had to do was give me a call glad its sorted. I hope the problem wasn't the grub screw in the chuck or bad thread in the chuck.

Geez, you didn't have to traverse half of Sydney to get a 1x10 die. I have one here