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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    boring answer unfortunately - I somehow scored a biax 7ELM on kijiji for 100$ so I've just been using that and the blades that came with it on some hokey handle I made. as a bit of a tangent - I intend to make a pull scraper at some point. I've got some nubbins from an old SIP measuring...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    Hi all, any suggestions for spotting blue for scraping and where to get it? a few of the usual options (stuart's micrometer blue, dykem...) I've looked at it seems like you have to pay a bit of a premium to get here. the stuff I have (PRM pro spotting blue) I find hard to see, and if I go...
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    measuring a tapered stub

    guess I should have mentioned that I've done this before but the point was to get an actual measurement... thought about this too but the tailstock alignment on all of my lathes is suspect haha oh? this is very interesting... 2°5' is very close to the half angle I was getting... thanks!
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    measuring a tapered stub

    so I have this Lorch LLN lathe that I'm trying to tool up, and I wanted to make a new drill chuck arbour for it for a keyless chuck I recently bought. problem is, the tailstock taper is non-standard (non morse, and also like a half length) and there's no spec I can find for it (this lathe...
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    Machine What has he done now!?

    wowowowow... the old 102vm is in my opinion one of the prettiest lathes ever made. looks like you got a good one! any cool story of where these came out of? judging from the warning labels I'd guess UK, maybe a government lab or something?
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    Machine Make a precision spindle.

    Thanks again for your thoughts! come to think of it, it's pretty incredible that you've rebuilt both a plain bearing spindle and this one with roller bearings. As for why deckel did what they did (and also why plain bearings came to mind) - the fp1 had plain bearings in both horizontal and...
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    Machine Make a precision spindle.

    incredible work, mcguyver, very inspiring... thanks for taking the time to write-up and share your knowledge with us! maybe a stupid question but did you ever consider remaking the spindle with plain bearings? do you think that would have been any easier (or just different)?
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    "small" lathe tooling - any pointers?

    I happen to have 3 tripan 111s (lol), one came with my Holbrook minor (it was a factory accessory funny enough - weird for a british lathe) and two of them came from a really good deal on ebay kleinanzeigen that an instagram friend in germany very generously bought on my behalf and mailed. helps...
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    "small" lathe tooling - any pointers?

    Haha, this is actually just plain 'ole HSS... I haven't used brazed carbide in ages. the picture looks deceiving I guess. Thanks! just what I was hoping for.
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    "small" lathe tooling - any pointers?

    Hi all, so I've got this Lorch LLN that I bought a couple years ago, recently I've had to use it a couple times to make a few small pins/shafts and it got me thinking that maybe it's time to actually tool up to make it more useful and less of a comedy item in my shop. The parts I've used it...
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