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    Anchoring lathe - should I or shouldn't I and how to?

    Well it's a general mess but it's even worse now as everything is moved and piled and.... When I was originally positioning it, roughly where it will live. Drill press might live where it is as well. What the pad will look like. I'm making the floor in sections. Yes I suck at concrete...
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    Anchoring lathe - should I or shouldn't I and how to?

    Making progress on my old Faye and Scott beast. I've even turned out a couple pieces I needed for other projects. I find myself in the enviable, or perhaps unenviable position of pouring my own concrete floor and base for my machines. My garage is gravel floored and as such is a blank...
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    Jarno taper tooling - am I looking for unicorn poop?

    A combination of factors, the general consensus here as well as the fact that I finally managed to disassemble the tail stock last night, I'm going to ream the ram. Man that sounds like a euphemism... Now the only question is, do I order up a MT3 reamer or take it to my local machine shop and...
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    Jarno taper tooling - am I looking for unicorn poop?

    I didn't find these guys, but I did find dead centres from other places 'state side that were either out of stock or "please contact." Generally when I see that they want to do a production run of 1000+ and have me buy them all. Somewhat overkill for a hobiest on a budget. Actually that...
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    Jarno taper tooling - am I looking for unicorn poop?

    Well here is a video I took a few weeks back when I got it turning for the first time. Please excuse the mess. And yes it have power feed and a power feed cross slide and it will rip a finger or more off without a problem.
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    Jarno taper tooling - am I looking for unicorn poop?

    I'm actually embarrassed to post pics, because of the state of the lathe and the state of the shop. Both are in "as found with some repairs and cleaning" condition. I've thought about opening it up to an MT3 which is the size closest and there is enough meat there to do it. Honestly at this...
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    Jarno taper tooling - am I looking for unicorn poop?

    Good day all. After some mistaken purchasing of tooling and ASS-u-ME-ing that my very old Fay and Scott lathe used a Mores taper in the tail stock I finally broke down and did some actual semi-careful measuring of a rather battered dead centre that fits in the tail stock which came in my box...
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    How much power is enough?

    Unless I'm missing something, the input is also 3 phase on this particular unit. Mind you if it goes up to 599 Hz then you could theoretically get a lot more speed out of a motor than it's nameplate indicates. ;) That said I'm not sure how things like bearings and armatures would hold up at...
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    How much power is enough?

    Well the east coast must be the coldest side of hell for this. I priced up a single phase 2hp new motor at the local electric motor place. They were going to give me a "deal"because they accidentally got the wrong one in for another customer and call it $650 plus the Queen's shilling. Edit: I...
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    Another herring choker - Greetings from New Brunswick!!!

    Well I had family in Saint John and I'm originally from Charlotte Co. so I get down a fair bit. I love supporting brick and mortar local businesses, especially ones that have been around forever, but the Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm that all the industrial hardware stores seem to have makes it difficult...
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