by William J. Haworth I have never been one to let "a lack of machine capacity" prevent me from attempting a project! I was faced with the following issue: I needed to bore an aluminum bicycle wheel whose diameter was 20". Since my lathe was 13" (with no gap) and the throat dimension of my [...]
by Yehuda Friedman Here is a tip that I have been using for many years. Starting with a Taig lathe, I was always hampered by its small size. Of course, my projects were always too large or at the extreme limits of the Taig's capacity. If I’d used a large lathe, I'm sure the opposite [...]
by by H. D. Candland I thought you might be interested in this…. While working on a project, I needed to draw a fairly large circle (approximately 8-10 inches in diameter) on aluminum plate. Due to the size of the circle, I did not have anything in my toolbox that would allow me to draw [...]
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 [...]