got a lathe...now how do i use it??

[concrete guy]

Any of you guys notice that this thread was started 4 years ago??

[mikeyfrombc]

LOL i did

[Dan Boy]

I love bringing back these old threads, there is some good stuff on this board, just take some searching!

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[rustybill]

I stumbled across this site: http://www.evenfallstudios.com/woodw...s_library.html

There are some old but valuable machining books there.

[wrastu]

Albeit an old thread, as I read thru it I thought of just how good of a refresher it was for me. I do more mill work than lathe work and I don't do it everyday as my shop isn't for a living. After that I thought about things and hazards that over time are in your mind, but not always up front.

Couple thoughts, chips, especially when they are flying the beautiful golden turning blue from carbide, and down an open collared type shirt......yeah baby we're dancing a jig across the shop with the chest hair smoking and the smell of cooked meat.

I always wear a short sleeved t-shirt, less chance of dancing.

But the burns heal, and then the chips especially from some types of stainless sometimes never seem to know that you ground a chip breaker in the tool, but instead just roll off as one long stand.

That being said, I seen a friend years ago (when I did work as a machinist for a living) make the mistake of having a tub full of those stainless spaghetti chips on the lathe and they got wrapped up around the work. It caught a finger on the way around and as we all know the chips from stainless are like a razor.

End result, one finger peeled to the bone on one side.

[ogresdad]

It may be an old post but it is just in time for my old Craftsman 1947 lathes rebirth. I've been dinking around on it just learning how not to do things when my neighbor, a machinist when Noah built the Ark, told me I have to understand the 2% factor... naturally I said "huh?" and he told me I had to be 2% smarter than the machine I'm running... so... back to school

[gearsmithy]

Originally Posted by wrastu

That being said, I seen a friend years ago (when I did work as a machinist for a living) make the mistake of having a tub full of those stainless spaghetti chips on the lathe and they got wrapped up around the work. It caught a finger on the way around and as we all know the chips from stainless are like a razor.

End result, one finger peeled to the bone on one side.

I learned that lesson the hard way too. Got whacked in the face by a rats nest wrapped around the chuck...I was lucky since aluminum chips don't seem to come out too sharp. Had it been ss, my beauty pageant days would've been over.

[noodelz]

i wrote this up a while back.

http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=22064

[wrastu]

Good read,