aaarrrghh - speaking of stupid mistakes

Hi Bill

So You do screw up too, Ha.

Maybe you can sent it to Wally D, He uses a reverse turning lathe apparently, as he wants to turn left handed, and had a lathe build with left hand thread I'm told.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

Bill wrote:

Yeah, but I'll bet Bill's "left hand" spur center has a right hand thread...

I knew a woodworker who got a commission to build a seating bench for a church foyer....he studied the plans, decided he understood the dimensions, and proceeded to build the whole thing. When he was done, he did a double check of all the specs....and yep, he had done it mirror image....right-handed instead of left. I think he kept it after he re-did it for the customer. It ain't exactly stupid, but it does pay to triple-check some things....

Bill, I've made that same mistake and too frugal to throw it away. Try mounting a big piece of scrap on your mistake then carefuly and safely make a big delberate catch. You may have invented a better safety drive for holding large blanks than a dead ring or Steb center. :)

Some turners for comfort and to see the wall better like to reverse the spindle and turn open interiors from across the bed on the opposite side. Locking a RH threaded holding device to the spindle, of course.

What mill do you have? I may have some extra cutters and tooling for it.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

hmm.... not a lot of demand for outboard spur drives, Bill... *g*

I don't know if this is true, but supposedly when someone asked Edison how it felt to fail over 1,000 times before getting a bulb to light, he said something like "I never failed, I just found 1,000 ways that didn't work"...

Maybe the metal shavings would sell on Ebay as magic show accessories for magnets??

Mac

Nah. Metal shavings will sell to any scrap dealer by the ton. If you start using that mill a lot, it'd pay to make a plywood box about the size of a pallet, and save them up- they add up quickly. A lot of guys make a good deal of $$$ just collecting that kind of scrap.

right you are, LRod - so it will be useless no matter what you do - well, I did run it through the mill again and removed the top of the teeth and got it so it ought to work - but speaking of feeling stupid.......

my mill is an Abene from the early 70s, (1970s, not 1870s) - it's Swiss made, combination horizontal/vertical, with 6 hp spindle motor (18 speeds) and a 2 hp table motor (3 axis) - it uses a NMTB-40 taper in the spindle - it's a about 4X heavier than my Stubby lathe -

aaah, let me guess, LH spur with RH thread, and then RH spur with LH thread - a useless pair. Put them on a pedestal and label them with the names of two prominent political parties, or your in-laws, or .... to paraphrase Gloria Steinem, "a turner needs a LH spur drive like a fish needs a bicycle".....

At least I learned several things about how to destroy an end mill - it's amazing how much heat a dull tool can make with 6 HP turning it......I'm getting smarter by the hour, I guess.

bill

Hi Bill, I see that "learning how to use it" meant you were learning how to use this particular machine, not learning how to mill. I thought you probably had a small homeshop mill. My fixtures are for a small vertical Clausing and a small horizontal Atlas. Could you put a double bevel on the spurs or would that just change it into a drill bit? I hate to give up. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Make a table using mortise and tenon joinery, or better yet a chair. Even though I use the "Triangle Marking Method" for identifying which part goes where and how it's to be oriented, I've made more than one "left front" leg.

Some can figure everything out in their head and then make it for real. Then there's folks like me - and you. . .

charlie b

=====>Think of it as being a fortuitous happening. Embrace the occurrence and make a second table or chair!*G*