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Ok ............ thanks Bob but I cant help asking the following ..............
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Anorak Bob
Bill,
If you are using a 9" (9 in = 22,9 cm) Hercus you can't isolate the headstock spindle and engage the powerfeed. <snip>
You could also lean on someone in your neck of the woods who owns a mill.
Bob.
Thanks Bob,
Saved me a heap of poking around in the shed and various googling.
- yes going to somebody with a mill is an option, at the moment am trying to better understand what I can and cannot do. Hope the questions don't irritate you experienced folk too much ............ your answers might also benefit others apart from me.
Intuitively what I'm about to ask is silly, but what the hell lets ask anyway. Has anybody ever tried this .....................
What if I put a live head on the headstock, mounted the workpiece between centres and somehow anchored the workpiece ?
Not sure if I'd actually do that - but theoretically that would isolate the workpiece and allow it to be held stationary and then the spindle could spin driving the gear train and I could do the planing on auto feed and it maybe saves me a lot of winding ?
Theoretically that works but ............ if the live centre were to sieze then suddenly my workpiece tries to move and because it cant move, the pointy bit of the live centre spins inside my workpiece and maybe damages the end of the workpiece if I'm not careful.
Will hook it all up and turn by hand with the lathe unplugged from the wall and see what happens.
Am trying to understand how somebody 60 years ago with just a lathe and not much else would go about doing this task.
I guess 160 years ago it was a job for chisels and saws and drills ? ( http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...s-done-242227/)
Attached is another gadget I found in my travels - I thought it was interesting and clever. Discussed in various old books easily found with google.
On a more modern theme - Harold Hall has a milling device driven off the lathe headstock on his website - http://www.homews.co.uk/LrgMyWkShop21.jpg
Bill