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Hi Ted
Thanks for your comments. When I got my first lathe, a smallish one (38mm spindle) - I did little homework, I just thought I could turn up some spacers and bushes and aligning tools for working on my old bikes.
The lathe had 12mm tooling, so not too expensive and I just drifted into insert tooling. So I made stuff and had a lot of fun with the machine - it did so much work I had to replace several bearings which had worn out (all be it, they were probably cheap Chinese bearings) - but eventually I got frustrated with a machine that had no threading dial, had manual change gears - so power feeding largely got ignored - and other things.
So now I am starting again with a new lathe (arriving soon I am told - we will see) -
I ducked over to my local supplier and picked up some HSS (8% cobalt) blanks and I have a small engineers protractor for the angles.
Now for some rough grinding while I wait for my replacement white stone grinding wheel. This time around I will put my nose to the metaphorical grindstone and be a lot more particular about, ground angles on the tooling, feed rates and of course the final arbitrator - chip formation, surface finish and accuracy.
Cheers
Mal
![29913326744_5bf34478f6_b.jpg 29913326744_5bf34478f6_b.jpg](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/146/146349-f78a81a37783ccd120d976a1a2e3603e.jpg)
Thanks for your comments. When I got my first lathe, a smallish one (38mm spindle) - I did little homework, I just thought I could turn up some spacers and bushes and aligning tools for working on my old bikes.
The lathe had 12mm tooling, so not too expensive and I just drifted into insert tooling. So I made stuff and had a lot of fun with the machine - it did so much work I had to replace several bearings which had worn out (all be it, they were probably cheap Chinese bearings) - but eventually I got frustrated with a machine that had no threading dial, had manual change gears - so power feeding largely got ignored - and other things.
So now I am starting again with a new lathe (arriving soon I am told - we will see) -
I ducked over to my local supplier and picked up some HSS (8% cobalt) blanks and I have a small engineers protractor for the angles.
Now for some rough grinding while I wait for my replacement white stone grinding wheel. This time around I will put my nose to the metaphorical grindstone and be a lot more particular about, ground angles on the tooling, feed rates and of course the final arbitrator - chip formation, surface finish and accuracy.
Cheers
Mal
![29913326744_5bf34478f6_b.jpg 29913326744_5bf34478f6_b.jpg](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/146/146349-f78a81a37783ccd120d976a1a2e3603e.jpg)