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Re: Painted Myself Into a Corner Again

 

Is there a sequence?? Or, just an iterative, back and forth process?

Don't know what happened to Photobucket.? Haven't used it for awhile.? Had to wade through way too many ads just to get my picture loaded.


From: "Chris Albertson albertson.chris@... [7x12minilathe]" <7x12minilathe@...>
To: 7x12minilathe <7x12minilathe@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [7x12minilathe] Painted Myself Into a Corner Again

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Photo bucket wants me to disable my ad-blocker before it will show your photo. ? Not going to do that. ?

You need to use the DI in two places.
1. on the park very near the chuck and
2. on the part very near the end.

Maybe a little plastic faced hammer could be used to adjust the DI reading near the parts end.

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:12 PM, acoe@... [7x12minilathe] <7x12minilathe@...> wrote:
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Thought I was being clever this time and started turning a piece on a long hunk of 2" stock - so I'd have plenty of margin for error.? See photo: ?
Next step is to drill a hole through the center of the turned section, starting from the tailstock end.? Unfortunately, in my cleverness, I didn't account for the length of the chuck and the drill - I either need a longer lathe bed or a shorter set up.

So, the next step now is to cut off the turned section and re-mount it in my chuck.? Which leads to my question.

I've gotten pretty good at centering a piece in my 4-jaw chuck, using DI.? But, in this case, I need to center the counter sunk hole (where the tailstock is currently mounted) and also make sure the axis of the hole I drill will be parallel with the axis of the turned portion (IOW, make the axis of the turned portion parallel to the bed).? The turned down portion is about 2" long, so if it is not aligned parallel with the bed the hole will be off by quite a bit.? Any advice on the most efficient way to achieve this alignment?.






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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California
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