Boring a Deep Hole

[doubleboost]

(07-17-2013, 04:38 PM)EdK Wrote:

(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

You would use a one inch bar
(not much flex on that)
Depends on your cross slide
Mine has tee slots
John