Boring a Deep Hole

[EdK]

(07-17-2013, 02:54 PM)doubleboost Wrote: You could always mount the job on the lathe cross slide and put the boring bar between centres
This is how I bore my engine cylinders
Use a big drill from the headstock first

John

Hi John,

I thought of that also. Isn't that called line boring?

I wondered how well it would work on a 1.5" hole. I thought that size hole might be too small for line boring, but I don't know.

Ed