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This should help http://www.sherline.com/grinding.htm

Guys that should know, tell me that a lathe bed has almost no resistance to twist. You need to beg, borrow, or steal a machinist's precision level and check the bed, both at the headstock and near the

You well more than likely find the TS off set a bit. If your using a three jaw chuck you have some run out at that end also. The best either of my tree jaw chucks well do is .0015-.002. With a four

Go read this, http://www.gadgetbuilder.com/Lathe_Align.html This should get you in the right direction. RC (horrors)

Robin wrote........The Chester rep said that it wasn't sourced from the same manufacturer as the warco lathe.......... No. not with this translation ' Casting iron change gears get greater capacity'

I have the same setup and am thoroughly enjoying my new toys. What I did not realize when getting into this new hobby is that the tooling needed quickly exceeds the cost of the lathe and mill, e.g.

Hi Folks, If I can poll the collective wisdom on this I'd appreciate it. I'm not sure I have a problem, but I think so. Turning down a rod I get a 0.015" difference over 5.5", please see:

Hi Roy, Thanks for the response! <roylowenthal@...> wrote: I've pretty much written off both those sets as an "educational" expense" :-). Not completely useless, but not what I was looking for. I

Congrats on the new toy^H^H^H^H tool! I got my Cummins not all that long ago and have had a lot of fun with it and also learned a lot. Was quite relieved that it was blue, I was afraid I was going to

I had the exact same results as you using that cheapie carbide set. I'm new to the lathe, so I'm far from an expert, but from my limited experience and everything I've read, the others are on the

I'm surprised and glad to hear so many people found that helpful. And please accept my apologies for the lousy (free) hosting. I tested it as best I could with Firefox and konqueror and they seemed to

Congratulations on your new toy! I bought the same machine a while back, and know exactly how you feel. The tools that came with mine (red painted soft metal with brazed tips?) aren't very good. It is

Hi, The 5 piece tool set commonly included is pretty much crap. But that's probably what you want for those initial stuff ups. The usual set comprises 5 brazed carbide tipped tools, painted red. At 2

G'day Harley. I didn't know what to do with some of the bits that came with my lathe either so I bought some blanks and ground my own tools. Have a look on minilathe web site and in the Little machine

It came with 5 bits.... I am unsure what each one is for.... But I am sure I destroyed 2 of em learning to use the lathe on some scrap. Ruined 1 by running the lathe in reverse....ruined the other

I couldn't open it either, thanks for the mirror, Mike; and thank you Paul for posting. I've been thinking of what I can cover the Speedway Series label with and your drawings and speed table may just

G'day Andy & Robin The prices in the Chester catalogue answer my question. They list the "Conquest" at ?365 and the DB7V at ?475. The "Conquest" only includes basic extras whereas the DB7V includes

I saw this Chester Lathe at the London Model Engineering Exhibition. http://www.chesteruk.net/store/db7_variable_speed_lathe.htm The Chester rep said that it wasn't sourced from the same manufacturer

Sehr geehrte Herr Ian! Es spricht alles dafur... oh, I can't keep it up, and anyway, I don't know how to do umlauts, the scharfes S and things on this keyboard. You could be right about Weiss, I