by Vince Pugliese As a relatively new home shop machinist, I have been tackling small projects in order to build up experience with my new Sherline lathe and mill. Like many others, it was my intention to develop these skills to aid my modeling, but I’ve have found that it is just as rewarding to [...]
By Clinton James I've read lots of articles and books and have not seen this idea anyplace. Of course, it's an adaptation of the long-employed procedure required when using a lathe without quick-change gears. I have occasion to cut 1/8" NPT threads on parts I'm making on my lathe. My Taiwan-built lathe has no listed [...]
By Chuck St. Louis One of the fun things when doing difficult-to-accomplish tasks is thinking your way through a problem and coming up with an original solution. Next, you try out the idea and have great satisfaction when you see that it does work and works very well. I realize that many people have probably [...]
By Joerg Hugel The attached photo illustrates how I make adjustments to my four-jaw chuck to get a workpiece to run true. With two keys, the adjustment could be made to a much more sensitive setting than with one key because the workpiece is easily shifted. This way, it is kept in close contact with [...]
By Perry Harrington This is a trick I came up with out of necessity. I was trying to die-thread a keyed shaft with 5/8-18 threads. I don't have a tailstock die holder, but I had a bolt with 5/8-18 threads on it. I took the bolt, cut the head off, and gripped the shouldered portion [...]
By Donovan V. Browne When I first acquired my second-hand Myford ML7 lathe - complete with sturdy wooden bench, three- and four-jaw chucks, and several faceplates (and lots of other nice tooling) - I suddenly became acutely aware that it had been more than 40 years since I had the opportunity of cutting a thread. [...]