Look what You started, Cleek!

[Hughman]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid211/pc0465bf4bb809b6de2f3343ed71014d5/ed727e81.jpg

Logan 1820, mfg in 1957. came with more collets than I can use in a lifetime!

[StevenBauer]

Hugh, that is very cool. Once you figger it out will you give lessons? :D

Steven

Are you coming to the Rowgatta Saturday morning?

[nedL]

Now that's nice!! Be sure to learn how to turn your own threads.:)

[Ken Hutchins]

Cool.:)

[Ross M]

Great woot!

Ross

PS: A good collet collection is a great thing. Really.

[Dave Fleming]

The successor to Logan Lathes advertises in HSM* as having or able to make replacement parts.


*HOME SHOP MACHINIST

[Bob Cleek]

Right on! Ain't it grand? Hold on to those collects. I've seen 'em for like eighty bucks a piece. I'm just starting to fiddle with my Atlas/Craftsman. Every day I seem to see some future use for a metal working lathe... not least of all being wood working! Funny, but it never occurred to me that you could use one for that (I have a wood lathe, too) until I unpacked a set of tool rests for wood turninga and wood turning centers and such that were packed up with my lathe tooling.

Let's see, some good first projects? I may attempt to face a few coins down to half thickness and then silver solder the halves together to make "two headed coins." Something like that. LOL

HE WHO DIES WITH THE MOST TOOLS WINS!

[Hughman]

HE WHO DIES WITH THE MOST TOOLS WINS!

This outfit is the clear contender!
http://www.jonesport-wood.com/jwLibToolPhotos.html

I went to the famous Liberty Tool to find the little wedge that fits under the tool post, (note: birch won't substitute for this :p ), and who should I encounter but Canoeyawl, from your neighborhood, Cleek! And who turns out to have been a machinist since Prometheus was a tad!

I gave up on Liberty tool for useful woodworking tools, finding it pretty picked over. However, with Canoeyawls help, I found most of what was missing from my recent purchase - little stuff, like square wrenches, lathe dogs, morse #3 centers, chuck keys,....but I never found the wedges - so I ground one from a cutter blank.

I spent 4 hours in there and never got out of the front room! :eek:

(It's four floors!)

[Hughman]

So, I'm fooling around with the machine, trying out all the parts that came with it to see what they do, if they fit, etc, and my nine year old daughter comes in to check it out.

Cool! says she. "Can you make me a pony?"



"No" sez I. "So what good is it?" sez she.

[Thad]

What kind of collets you got there? I got an old Hardinge toolroom lathe at a sale a few years ago, pride and joy. 5C collets. Coming to Newport? Canoeyawl?

[Hughman]

Thad, the collets are 3AT.

I dunno about WBS. I'd like to find a place to bunk. $150/plusplus is a little steep this week...:(