Grafting feedscrew (Q from a new guy)

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(04-28-2015, 05:58 PM)DaveH Wrote:

(04-28-2015, 04:15 PM)EdK Wrote: I guess I misspoke. My lead screw is pinned but not with a shear pin. It's pinned with a 3/16" spring pin with a breaking strength of about 4100lbs.  

Ed

This will get me into a lot of trouble.
Your lathe was designed by engineers made by machinists.

DaveH

And then for poetic justice, some of us engineers have to build our own designs.

One of the kids and I were making a cross country trip when he was about 3. Stopped at a dinner and got chatting with one of the locals, he asked what I did, told him I was an engineer, Charlie looks up at me and say's no your not, you don't drive a train.