An earth shaking off center invention or just an off center inventor?

Found a junked 28" piece of 2" X 3/8" steel flat with 1/4" holes 3/4" apart all along it. Thought to cut it in half and weld a 1 1/4" X 8tpi spindle nut to the center of one half and drill a 60 deg. tail center hole in the other. I figure I can fix two balanced blanks between each half the same no. of holes off center and by turning then rotating 180deg. make 'big fat or flat ovals', plus get two for the price of one. :) IOW, the centers are more offset than the blanks would normally allow. What do I do with two big flat ovals, anyway?

I vaguely remember something like this, but before I fracture my nose and/or put another hole in the ceiling thought I'd better ask rcw if this makes any sense. Been done before? Won't work? Too risky? Why bother? Well, my Harbor Freight auto tail pipe expander does fine as an expansion 'pin' chuck, but somehow I don't seem to use it. :)

I know, I know. "Give it up Arch!, just go turn some bowls like normal turners do".

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

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"Arch" wrote: (clip) Won't work? Too risky? Why

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds like it will work. Too risky? OMHO, very risky. If I have it properly visualized, you are going to have a dumb bell spinning like a propeller while you work. One little lapse and.... Arch, you are a retired physician, so you know that people OUR age can get pneumonia and die just from lying in a hospital bed.

But let's take this discussion back to some of your earlier musings. It seems to me that when you are driven by the prospects and possibilities of a mechanical technique, you are doing CRAFT. When you have an esthetic goal, and the mechanics is simply a means to achieve that goal, you are doing ART.

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Leo Lichtman

Arch

Yes you can do it, however I thought that approaching them from the inside would give you a nicer shape, of course if you do both from the inside and outside you could make some classy assemblies with contrasting colors, then again you could probably do all this with a bandsaw and some sanding, no adrenaline rush though.

Is your live insurance paid up, ? you do have to think of your better half.

My advice, DON'T DO IT, I would like to read your musings for a long time yet.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

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l.vanderloo

Hey Arch... I agree with the guys here. If you are looking for a thrill, jump in the shower with the hot water off.

Sounds like a REALLY risky idea to me.

Robert

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nailshooter41

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