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G'day John. You are lucky to have a significant length of thread left on the end of your spindle, I have next to none. I don't see the expanding shaft as being too difficult, pull the handle bars out

Typo correction - the Sieg plate is 160mm! wrote: lathe bolts or

Hi Veni, If you can cut slabs of your PVC with something other than the lathe (bandsaw?), 6" pulley shapes would be achievable on a 7x using a face plate. You'd need to attach your work to the plate

Hi Roy, Combining these ideas, an offset adjuster as detailed at LMS could be made with a graduated scale as well as provision for a socket wrench on the end. Say an M6x1 bolt and major graduations

<roylowenthal@...> wrote: And using a hand crank with a long bar poked through the middle must be a PITA. But a nice option when necessary. <G> Good argument for a big cast valve wheel! I just

Delta used to offer a compound slide attachment for their wood lathe to allow limited use with metal lathe tooling. I've never seen or used one, it stuck in my memory because it was such an oddity.

Another approach to aligning the TS is to turn a test bar between centers to measure the misalignment, then adjust the TS off the lathe. Unlike on larger machines popping the TS off is effortless and

The proponent of that is Mike Tagliari, he did it to allow turning long pieces with a handcrank. The only downside is having to make sure you don't move the nuts, changing the HS bearing preload. Roy

Thanks Druid, I'll look forward to your testing, John wrote: confirmation on this. However, I have little doubt. The plan is to use the cables for testing and solder the wires when I finalize the the

Hi Paul, Yes, I saw GadgetBuilder's one. As he says, he doesn't have much need for offsetting to turn tapers so he designed it primarily for adjusting to zero offset. That's a different gadget. John

Those are some pretty interesting questions. I have turned a lot of PVC and aluminum in that size range and have sort of a feel for it. You really don't want a flimsy setup or the tool will suddenly

Vikki, These aren't very expensive machines :-) and replacement parts are easily available from < www.littleMachine Shop.com >. An early modification to mine was the cam on the tail stock, it makes

G'day John, Vikki, Bruce et al. I just ducked out to the shop to check out my TS. It is possible to do a mod like that suggested but to stand the bracket much further out from the TS. This will allow

Hi machinists, Wonder if turning a PVC cylinder OD= 6", conversely to make plastic or basic aluminum pulleys) could be done on a wood lathe. Know that it will work as spinning lathe (with a heavier

Hi Bruce, Thanks for the response! <goodsnout@...> wrote: LOL, anything but late for chow :). I probably didn't notice for the same reasons ;-). 10-32 sound like a better idea, I just had some of the

Hi John, The cables will be order later today - so I can't give you a confirmation on this. However, I have little doubt. The plan is to use the cables for testing and solder the wires when I finalize

John's (gadgetbuilder's) practice of using shims between the bar and tailstock base greatly reduces the touchiness of this adjustment. If you look at his adjuster, at first it looks like the one

Thanks Andy, More brain food to digest! John wrote: the "pin-outs" and other details. See particularly http://www.shumatech.com/support/chinese_scales.htm (for clarity, that's "chinese_scales") just

Hi Andy, Yes, David pointed me there earlier. Pretty good reference. Thanks, John wrote: outs" and other details. See particularly http://www.shumatech.com/support/chinese_scales.htm (for clarity,

Hi Ian, Vikki, So the old grey matter was on track after all. That's encouraging! As you say Ian, an M6x1 will move about 40 thou per turn. That's still more refined than Vikki's mallet method. It's