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Schucks, now the shop is even more crowded shop - collets and a Habegger
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Would e-publishing make your life any easier or is 90% of the task related to assembling the content itself? Reason I mention is I watched some e-pub training videos more out of curiosity on what is now LinkedIn Learning. The process it opened my eyes. It's actually a fascinating way to 'publish' if I can use that word loosely. I'm sure like most things there is a learning curve, pros & cons. But I came away with the feeling if I ever had something 'niche' to convey & the market was scattered around the world as many hobby pursuits are, that might be a good medium. I understand security measures to prevent cracking & re-distributing, but that aspect seems to be getting more robust? I wish the classic magazines like HSM would offer digital back issues. It's probably not as easy as I wish it would be. I still like the feel of paper/books & miss the magazines when they were good. But I can't imagine hardcopy printing & shipping is ever going to get less expensive. And advertising fluff getting in the way of content is becoming worse not better IMO. Maybe digital content will become more prevalent.
Peter, I don't think it would make it easier for me; I submit text and images and they (publisher) does the layout, editing, printing etc. This flies in the face of our modern world, however I don't think I'd be a fan of digital mag or digital back issues.....imo it would cut into mag sales. Too easy to forego subscribing today, safe in knowledge you could always buy the disk later. Its small hobby with limited content providers, a 'fragile ecosystem' so to speak 
There may be better ways to skin the cat, I'm not up on the latest and greatest with e-publishing so my remarks perhaps aren't seeing over the next hill. However I think a lot of small circulation mags partially exist and are supported by publishers to fill print capacity. Publisher want high press utilization obviously. Take that away, you lose all the value they provide that takes it from a rough submission to polished article
There may be better ways to skin the cat, I'm not up on the latest and greatest with e-publishing so my remarks perhaps aren't seeing over the next hill. However I think a lot of small circulation mags partially exist and are supported by publishers to fill print capacity. Publisher want high press utilization obviously. Take that away, you lose all the value they provide that takes it from a rough submission to polished article
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progress report.
The guy who sold it to me is a friend and had never set this lathe up....he didn't pick up on the 10 thou of end play in the spindle! He freaked when I told him, offered money back, pay to fix, etc .... but I really like this lathe so in I went.
Fortunately I found the problem and got it all work, not a 10ths runout on the spindle or the collets! (videos below).
As I hadn't been the one to take the unmolested lathe apart, and it was fairly complex, I really didn't know what was wrong or what to look for. I measured everything and basically reverse engineered it, working through the bearing system and its preload arrangement. Eventually I figured out the bellville washers, were suppose to be creating preload on the outboard race of the AC's and the previous character had oriented them incorrectly. Man, like days to get there as I took it slowly and did several trial assemblies.
I got it back together and the run out is unbelievably low. less than tenth....and check out the collets...hardinge x 64ths. Lathe with collets was on kijiji, not some insider deal (just turns out I the guy well). whole package in the low 2's.
Here's a couple of videos showing the agony of defeat and the thrill of victory
Oh no!
Yes! (spindle (non)runout 1:06, runout with collet 4;05)
The guy who sold it to me is a friend and had never set this lathe up....he didn't pick up on the 10 thou of end play in the spindle! He freaked when I told him, offered money back, pay to fix, etc .... but I really like this lathe so in I went.
Fortunately I found the problem and got it all work, not a 10ths runout on the spindle or the collets! (videos below).
As I hadn't been the one to take the unmolested lathe apart, and it was fairly complex, I really didn't know what was wrong or what to look for. I measured everything and basically reverse engineered it, working through the bearing system and its preload arrangement. Eventually I figured out the bellville washers, were suppose to be creating preload on the outboard race of the AC's and the previous character had oriented them incorrectly. Man, like days to get there as I took it slowly and did several trial assemblies.
I got it back together and the run out is unbelievably low. less than tenth....and check out the collets...hardinge x 64ths. Lathe with collets was on kijiji, not some insider deal (just turns out I the guy well). whole package in the low 2's.
Here's a couple of videos showing the agony of defeat and the thrill of victory
Oh no!
Yes! (spindle (non)runout 1:06, runout with collet 4;05)