17-02-2014, 10:05 PM
Hi,
Many thanks David for adding the pictures and describing how you make your brass turret terminals. This sure is inspiring stuff to encourage a novice to buy a lathe even a small one such as yours because lathes are just so useful and very interesting to use.
The quickest way to learn what works and what doesn't work on a lathe is to have a go but not to be reckless because a lathe is easily damaged as is the lathe operator. It's possible to get away with extra overhang from the face of a chuck using thick material taking light cuts but something like thin brass easily flexes away from the cutting tool so the usual thing to do is to increase the cut then suddenly the work is destroyed as distortion rapidly takes over. Without proper training then a novice simply makes all the mistakes until a bit of experience is gained; after 50 years of playing with lathes I'm still learning; the main things are not to damage the lathe or yourself.
It's the end result which counts and you look to have a nice production line going in making the turrets; well done David and thanks for sharing your story.
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks David for adding the pictures and describing how you make your brass turret terminals. This sure is inspiring stuff to encourage a novice to buy a lathe even a small one such as yours because lathes are just so useful and very interesting to use.
The quickest way to learn what works and what doesn't work on a lathe is to have a go but not to be reckless because a lathe is easily damaged as is the lathe operator. It's possible to get away with extra overhang from the face of a chuck using thick material taking light cuts but something like thin brass easily flexes away from the cutting tool so the usual thing to do is to increase the cut then suddenly the work is destroyed as distortion rapidly takes over. Without proper training then a novice simply makes all the mistakes until a bit of experience is gained; after 50 years of playing with lathes I'm still learning; the main things are not to damage the lathe or yourself.
It's the end result which counts and you look to have a nice production line going in making the turrets; well done David and thanks for sharing your story.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
