New Hollowing tool

Does anyone have any experience with the new Elbotool hollowing tool. I saw it in the Highland Hardware catalogue and it looked interesting.

Thanks....Alex

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dragonhollow
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Hi Alex

No experience with the tool, but I can see a couple of short comings, other than the steep price IMO.

As the arm that is bolted to the tail-stock barrel levers against the barrel holding screw, and this is already a weak points in a lot of lathes, the levered rotational stress is going to be hard on all lathes IMO. Having a hollow turning on a lathe and the tail-stock, there is not enough room for the hollowing tool setup, unless you have a long lathe bed. Also the joints and tail-stock together will have enough rotational back and forth play to be chattering I suspect. I certainly would like to have some hands-on before putting my money down, come to think of it, I would probably use one of the other captured hollowing systems out there that have proven reliable already, just my two cents.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

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l.vanderloo

Hi Alex, I dont have experience with that one. But, regarding Leo's comments, I have one that I designed and built that is very low on chatter. In fact if you take light cuts it doesnt chatter at all.

A couple of people from this forum have downloaded my blueprints of this boring tool. I dont know if they have built one yet though.

I can say it is a very pleasing tool. You can hog out thick chips (.125" thick) or with light passes take long shavings, both with great stability and safety.

Click on the "download.pdf" link on this page to see it in action. There is a second link that updates the tool holders for it. You may be interested in building yourself one of these.

The link page:

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snipped-for-privacy@earthl> Does anyone have any experience with the new Elbotool hollowing tool.

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cad

Yes, I bought one at the AWW Show in Louisville KY last June after trying both the Elbo and Glaser systems personally. I like the elbo tool. It is quck to set up and remove, and cuts quite effectively. Also you can use almost ant hollowing bars with it with a suitable adapter.

Highly recomended.

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Bradford Chaucer

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