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12-22-2014, 12:25 PM
Your QA inspector also does dishes.  Yikes  

Keep that one happy so he doesn't quit.

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12-22-2014, 07:32 PM
Greg,

I you ever again try to face, bore or turn a part like that one which crashed your machine, I suggest you do not try chucking on the thin rim like you did. Instead, find 3 equal sized blocks and chuck against the main pipe diameter further out and closer to the end o the jaws to reduce the lever effect.

Or, just clamp in on the table of a milling machine and face with a milling cutter, bore or turn with a boring head.

Best of luck in your future adventures!

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12-22-2014, 08:08 PM
The milling machine has crossed my mind Ken. Still not sure why it came loose, was taking far too light a cut to pull it out and there was no grab mark on the face. It was still warm from welding, it may have shrunk in the chuck enough to free up. The rim I was chucked on was 3/8 thick, should have been fine.
Thanks for the warning, heed is taken but Im sure there will be more adventures. Sh t happens.
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12-23-2014, 09:11 PM
Made some time today to make a Christmas present. 
Nothing like wood shavings on an oil soaked machine.
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A scrap of iron wood burl that I'd turned a couple of bowls out of. I buy the pen kits from Lee Valley Tools, quite reasonably priced and well made, I've been using one now for probably 4 or 5 years.
The finished product.

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Oh finished the shaft for my compound tonight, got the keyway cut and the end drilled and threaded for the handle, now to instal. 
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12-24-2014, 07:26 AM
very nice Greg
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12-24-2014, 09:05 AM
Nice job Greg. Thumbsup

Turning pens is fun. I've turned a whole bunch of them but when people started running away as I approached them with a new pen, it was time to back off. I haven't turned one it quite awhile.

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12-24-2014, 05:48 PM
You sent me all the kits!

I make a pen at the end of the school year for my son's teacher. They all appreciate it. Every neighbor within a 2 house radius has gotten at least one as well.
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12-26-2014, 01:18 PM
After an over indulgent Christmas I got back out to the shop this morn. Started assembling the compound on the lathe and realized I could use two proper spanners to set the thrust bearings.
Probably 10 minutes drawing and burning on the plasma table 

and there they were. Worked great.

And the lathe is back in good health. The new parts meshed well and the screw turns smooth as glass.

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12-26-2014, 01:36 PM
(12-26-2014, 01:18 PM)f350ca Wrote: After an over indulgent Christmas I got back out to the shop this morn. Started assembling the compound on the lathe a released I could use two proper spanners to set the thrust bearings.
Probably 10 minutes drawing and burning on the plasma table 

and there they were. Worked great.

And the lathe is back in good health. The new parts meshed well and the screw turns smooth as glass.

Good

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12-26-2014, 09:44 PM
Ken must have spooked me, so I used the four jaw this time and clamped them down. Pretty sure the last time they shrank from the welding heat, but better safe than sorry.
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Drilled and installed.

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