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Mick,
Nice job on cleaning up that lathe. That looks to be a very nice lathe. You've a really nice mill also. Keep the pictures coming.
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Great work Mick! ... so much for the compliments.
Grrr! Now I have another site to cut into my shop time
I did like the shot of the child labour thing.
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That is one hell of a job you did there Mick. I'm now having second thoughts about posting the clean up of my old lathe.
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Thanks for the comments lads, I will be getting back to the lathe this week and will post here direct too, as far as cutting into shop time all I can say is dont start watching Keith of Turn wright machine works ( KEF791 on youtube or your going to get NOTHING done
Cheers Mick.
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Nice job on the lathe Mick. I like the addition of the door and shelves in the headstock. A lot of these old lathes had dead space like that and it was a good idea to make use of it. Harrison definitely makes a sturdy machine. We had a 14" or 15" in college that I used quite a bit.
I'll have to admit that I've been guilty of the child labor thing myself, but it didn't work out very well. I once paid my son a nickel a piece to clean the paper and cosmoline off a set of pin gauges. About half way through the job, the little b*****d threatened to strike if I didn't renegotiate the rate. I refused and he walked. There are still some gauges in the set in their original wrapping.
I got even later on when he
volunteered to scrape undercoating off my Chevelle. It turned into a much bigger job than he thought and I held him to his word.
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Tom, some fathers ponder in their old age as to why their sons hated them. At least you'll know why.
Just kidding.
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(09-05-2012, 06:55 AM)stevec Wrote: Tom, some fathers ponder in their old age as to why their sons hated them. At least you'll know why.
Just kidding.
I'm pretty sure he's forgotten all about how horrible the job was now that he gets to "borrow the keys".
Tom
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