I had already figured on both of those things. But considering how cheaply and easily I can make one, it will be a nice addition to my tooling, especially since I really just don't have any plans to get myself a vacuum chuck. No reason not to have one, and if it saves me some work on even a handful of my projects, that will be reason enough for it to be in the shop.
Hi Prometheus
I use my mega jumbo cole jaws very often, they are very flexible to use and have a much better holding power than the longworth style jaws, they also have the ability to hold wood pieces that you can turn/ shape to hold more involved shapes, like rolled over rims etc. However you do need a good woodchuck for those to bold on to, and they are not cheap. :-)))
If you decide to make the longworth chuck, you could make the arc cuts in those disks less steep, so you would get more gripping power as the rubber buttons would move less in and out for the same amount of disk rotation, drawback would be of course be that you would need a couple of chucks to cover the sizes you would be able to hold. The rubber buttons that are used, are readily available in the beer and wine making places/stores, they are used to hold the airlocks in the carboys when making wine, they do come with or without holes, the ones I use in my carboys do have 8mm/5/16" D holes.
Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo
Nope, not cheap at all- and while I do turn a few bowls a month, I have so many other irons in the fire that the money can go to better use elsewhere!
I also ran across a site that was selling a commerical version, and they were using a spanner wrench to tighten them using a series of holes around the rim. That's likely to be the route I'll go.
Perfect! I had a nagging feeling that I knew where to find them, and couldn't quite drag it out of the back of my mind. Now that you mention it, I did buy one of those the one and only time I attempted to make wine (when I was a teenager, and trying to circumvent the law... )
I built a Longworth a couple years ago. It gets trotted out fairly often. I used some faucet washers I found that were about 1/2 thick. I just used them again today to finish off the bottom of a maple bowl that's been kicking around about 1/2 of forever waiting for me to decide whether I wanted to smooth the bottom or make a pedestal bowl of it. "Smooth" finally won out.
Bill
/SNIP/
couldn't quite drag it out of the back of my mind. Now that you
Prometheus, there's nothing illegal about making your own wine or beer, just don't start competing with the government controlled liquor/ alcohol selling.
As the price of a bottle of wine sold to the LCBO (over here in Ontario) cost them $5.--, that plomb does cost us approx. $15.-- or better.
I do like a glass of wine with my meal at suppertime, and could not see me paying that kind of robbery prices for it, so I make my own, have done so for a number of years, nothing fancy, but a lot better than the $15.-- stuff they sell, and at 20% of that price.
Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo
There is when you're a teenager. That was his point.
Not where I come from, 16 over there, and 18 over here I think. but that could be the case where you live, some places you're never old enough.
I know that- to an extent, but I was 18 at the time. (In Wisconsin, the legal drinking age is 21.) While it may not have been illegal to ferment it, it was illegal to drink it!
Ah yes- from what I hear, Canada has expensive liquor, but cheap marijauna- which is exactly opposite in the US. Around here, a person can get drunk for $2 if they don't have much taste, or $6-7 for a bottle of pretty good wine. Oddly enough, the ones in the $7 range are usually a little better than the $15-$20 bottles, though that may be a result of my personal tastes.
Every once in a while, I think about getting a beer-brewing kit- but I don't know that I drink enough to justify it, and I don't really think I need a reason to increase my alcohol consumption!
Young fellow. Was 18 when there was a draft. You'd have to have been a "head of household," to make it, I believe.
Yep, 28 next week. But I was a "head of household" when I was 18, if being the leaseholder on my apartment counts...
In the US the drinking age is almost universally 21. Was 18 for a while after the 18 year old vote passed, but the Federales decided that raising it to 21 would cut down on underage DUI deaths (are the brains of legislators surgically excised when they win an election?) and started withholding highway trust fund money from states with lower ages.
A situation not unknown to licensed distillers. The Jack Daniels distillery is located in a dry county.
Seems like if you are old enough to volunteer or get drafted to get shot at or become the next hero, you'd be old enough to have a glass of wine or a beer. I guess that would maybe make to much sense for those that make the rules for others to live by. Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo
Yup ... you can get into a big states rights argument over that one.
Not biting.
ISTR that both my Dad (Army / Air Force WW2) and my Son (USMC 3/3) had no problems obtaining alcoholic beverages for personal consumption on base.
Bill
InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.