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I'm still keen to buy.

If you could strap it to a small pallet I can arrange for a freight company to pick-up.

I don't need the stand only the sander.

Tim

G'day Rab

I'll take it if you can arrange packing and shipping to Adelaide my cost.

I was over at the air show but was flying so no luck.

Cheers Tim

I no longer post on this forum but I do lurk sometimes.

Here are a couple of random thoughts before I get in the reasons for being missing in action.

1: All of the humour has disappeared. It is...

Moby

19 minuets mate.

What took you so long?

Yours in jest
Tim:)

I'm with you Jim.

With all this safety talk hijacking our woodturning forum I'm scared to go near the lathe in case I get hurt.:C

Seriously guys, there is a safety forum and I think your...

16 grit any good??

Available on special order only.

Cheers
Tim:)

If you want to buy your last lathe:

"Buy a Vicmarc":2tsup:

Cheers
Tim:)

[QUOTE=Allen Neighbors;1807014] The green "run" light was blinking, and the numbers in the little red window were 8.7. Tried the switch - nothing - and when I looked back at the numbers they were...

[QUOTE=brendan stemp;1807096]I agree with Allen. I turn a lot of the stuff and I almost always finish with shear scrapeing; before sanding that is.
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Hi Brendan

What grit size do you...

Yes we like to keep our balls nice and shiny. :oo:

Yes Os
Even Victorians are welcome.:2tsup:
As long as you agree to go back home straight after the event:D

Cheers
Tim

1. Tim
Tim, you raise valid & important points about safety & your reasons for sanding in reverse, however I would rather a keyless chuck unlocking than a bowl spinning off the spindle at speed....

I paid $9 for a packet of 50 x 40mm hex head timber screws form a specialised fastener (nut & bolt) supplier.

Much cheaper than your local hardware shop.

Cheers
Tim:)

I power sand the outside of a bowl in reverse for 2 reasons.

1: It means the sanding pad and the bowl are rotating in opposite directions = more efficient sanding. Of course you can reverse the...

[QUOTE=NeilS;1802759] but unless your name is Liam O'Neill, QUOTE]

Speaking if Liam O'Neil.

His son is getting married to an Adelaide girl next February.

While in Adelaide for the wedding...

But don't forget you get lots of really useful bits of string left over.:wink:

Cheers
Tim

For the technically minded amongst us, how many megapixels?

I use an electric frypan on low heat and making sure I cut the ends of the timber square so the piece will stand up in the pan.

Using candle wax I leave the piece standing in 10mm of hot wax for...

I also vote for the Woodfast 305.

We have 5 or 6 in our club, along with a couple of 20 year old Vicmarc VM100 mini lathes and a Jet mini.

Don't forget a set of good tools and a chuck will cost...

One would have to question the wisdom of your mentor who gave you a dry Mallee stump to make your first bowl from.:?

Besides the safety aspect of an inexperience turner using really hard timber, I...

I prefer a faceplate, 4 (or more) timber roofing screws and a hex driver in a small rattle gun, pre drilling if required.

This method enables the centre to be moved (should it be required) while...

Hey Jim

I just knew you would come unstuck one day.:roll:

All that pressure, worrying about which little bit of wood goes where:?

Cheers
Tim:)

Pity the poor bugger that has a head shaped like that!!!:oo:

That was all a big con Peter.

Now you are drawn into the dark side and hooked for life.

Happy to be the cause of your addiction.

Cheers
Tim:)

You would have to be dead lucky to find a pair of 5 step pulleys off the shelf that would fit without some machining.

If you were lucky and did manage to find some, it would still be a PITA to...

Here is a quick tip.

Put a rubber band over the wrist part of the glove.

It will take care of the loose cuff that could get caught on something.

Even better, it stops the glove filling up...

Simple method

Motor speed
Divided by driven pulley dia
Multiplied by motor pulley dia

Cheers
Tim:)

I demonstrated at the 1998 Melbourne Wood Show exactly one week after the Crows won back to back premierships. :2tsup:

Did I give them Victorians heaps.:oo:

I dressed Vic Wood's lathe in crows...

You have changed the readout on the keypad.

To show the speed readout of 30-3000RPM press the FUNC/DATA button 3 times.

With the speed set to 0 on the control the display should read 30.
...

Pull the lever sideways and move upwards and release.

Then you can take another bite at undoing the motor lock.

Simple once you have done it once.

Cheers
Tim:)

What Jim said.:2tsup:

To change any of the 90 plus factory set parameters, you need the code to unlock the keypad.

This is to prevent users from stuffing up the settings.

My advice is to...

Liam O'Neil will be in Australia in Feb/March 2015.

If there are any clubs that would like to host him for a workshop or demonstration please PM me for details.

You can view his web site here...

Just because the two centres happen to meet doesn't mean the tailstock spindle and the headstock spindle are on the same plane.

Cheers
Tim:)

G'day Hermit

Small horizontal adjustments to the tailstock can be made using the following method.

Using a centre punch and a hammer the cast iron can be swollen a small amount.

You know...

Jim wouldn't it be a disaster if, all these years, you had been using a lathe that didn't line up?:-

Imagine how much better your work would have been if you had checked this before you started...

Less 10% off storewide for the month of May =$7469

Cheers

Tim:)

I would use my morse taper reamer and ream inside of the spindle.

You can get plastic ones which clean the gunk out but if the taper is damaged you need a proper HSS reamer.

You could try...

I'm not saying you have to use a chisel.

That's what I do.

You should use whatever works for you.

I mean you could use red wine if it worked for you.

Personally I would consider that to...

Price sounds about right to me.

25 years ago I remember buying some and the price then was $60,000 per cubic meter.

No I didn't buy a cubic meter.

I only got a small piece.

Nice to turn.

Visit your local bolt supplier and purchase a long hardened bolt of the right diameter, cut off the head and thread.

Bingo

Cheers
Tim:)

Most problems are caused by not having the glue hot enough or letting it get cool down before bringing the surfaces together.

I don't use Jims method of using a circle as I find the glue cools too...

With regard to protecting your idea, unless you have heaps of financial resources to defend a patent, no matter how good the idea, its not worth the effort or the outlay of trying to protect it.
...

Hi Dave

You got it in one mate, pin chucks never jam.

Every time you stop the lathe and start it up again the works locates on a different part of the chuck.

This means the work runs...

No not quite right.

It's metric M30.

30 is the diameter in mm.

3.5 is the distance between any 2 threads in mm.

The way I was taught was to select any 3 threads, measure and divide by 2.

Bugger.

Now you have me worried.:C

Much more fun to disagree.:rolleyes:

Now is taking a rest I need someone else to spar with.

Cheers mate.

Any outboard attachment that bolts to the lathe without reaching the ground will not be as solid as one that transfers the feed-back from the tool directly into the ground.

With the bolt on type...

When using an offset tool with a swans neck, it is important to over have tool rest back far enough so that the contact of the tool on the rest is only on the straight part of the shank.

Any...

I agree.

This stand needs a bigger footprint.

You could get a serious dig in using a tool further out than the base diameter.

Just my 2 bobs worth.

Cheers

You taught me well Jim.:roll:

Cheers

Tim

An old station hand told me that when this tree died, everything else was finished.

Meaning it would be the last thing to die in a drought.

Like all bush lore, you need to take this with a...