Carbide Tipped Lathe Center

From the pictures I see here and on many others using grinders on there lathes , they don't worry about the debree from grinding getting into the ways and becoming lapping compound wearing the metal down. Is it me that's just to careful or am I wrong , I was always taught to protect from grinding dust and sanding debree . Maybe they wash down I don't know but I cringe seeing it done. Then they wonder why ,, my LATHES not cutting right.
 
As a stone cutter I share the sentiment, but it's not exactly an irreversible condition, the machine can be cleaned easily before any wear of note happens.
 
I read about tungsten poisoning. Pretty rare actually. I thought this was really cool:
Bottom line- don't rinse your rifle barrels in wine and then drink it!
Robert

Note to self...
Do Not drink the juice poured from a howitzer barrel! :beer:


Nice work Robert on the center, looks great!:)
 
That is a good point about the grinding dust on the lathe ways. I usually cover all the ways with a rag for protection. I have not found a good way to keep dust out of the chuck. I just blow it off when finished.
I am gratified that people found the Tungsten poisoning event as interesting as I did!
Robert
 
I used an cutoff grinder in my lathe yesterday to spit some double ended milling cutters in half so I could use them. How I cleaned the chuck off was spraying it well with brake cleaner, blowing it with an air nozzle IHMO defeats the purpose of way covering.


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