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Sorry no pictures but here is a list of a few things I have done with my SB 7" over the past few months.
1) Cut flats on a 5/8" 316 Stainless steel rod. This rod had left hand threads on one end and right hand on the other. The threads were cut on my Logan lathe. It is used as a bob stay on a sailboat. The flats allow you to put a wrench on it so it works like a 3ft long turnbuckle.
2) Cut flats for a jack shaft.
3) Cut a step key. Yet another part for the Atlas mill. I don't have an 2 step original motor pulley but I did find two pulleys with the correct bore and close enough diameters. The pulleys had two different key sizes.
The smaller pulley had a narrow 5/32" keyway but the shaft and larger pulley were 3/16". I could have cut the keyway in the smaller pulley to match, but cutting a step key was less risky since the smaller pulley isn't something that is easy to find.
4) Making a rectangular bench block from a chunck of unknown scrap steel for my wife to use for jewelry making.
5) Turned a piece of scrap aluminum into a mounting bracket for a light on my drill press.
6) Stress relief. Just watching it run seems to lower my blood pressure.
1) Cut flats on a 5/8" 316 Stainless steel rod. This rod had left hand threads on one end and right hand on the other. The threads were cut on my Logan lathe. It is used as a bob stay on a sailboat. The flats allow you to put a wrench on it so it works like a 3ft long turnbuckle.
2) Cut flats for a jack shaft.
3) Cut a step key. Yet another part for the Atlas mill. I don't have an 2 step original motor pulley but I did find two pulleys with the correct bore and close enough diameters. The pulleys had two different key sizes.
The smaller pulley had a narrow 5/32" keyway but the shaft and larger pulley were 3/16". I could have cut the keyway in the smaller pulley to match, but cutting a step key was less risky since the smaller pulley isn't something that is easy to find.
4) Making a rectangular bench block from a chunck of unknown scrap steel for my wife to use for jewelry making.
5) Turned a piece of scrap aluminum into a mounting bracket for a light on my drill press.
6) Stress relief. Just watching it run seems to lower my blood pressure.