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Turning Tricks: Finding Center

My first video about tricks I have learned in free machining on the lathe - This episode has me making a tool to be able to center my work in a four jaw chuck.  Enjoy!

Turning Tricks: Finding Center

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There is no need for racially offensive terminology,

Larry Taylor

Yea, good but expensive. Maybe if FranLab gets fully funded....

Fran Blanche

Fran. One word. NOGA. Check out their tools. Maybe I've been watching Adam Booth and Keith Fenner too long, but your chuck is weird. The screws turn backwards. Probably made in Chinkistan. Still, that lathe should do you right and last a long time with its hardened ways. Keep it oiled (with way oil, not motor oil) and store the change gears in a waterproof container so they don't rust. Cheers....

Chuck Kirchner

Guess: Very close asian cousin of the Emco Compact 8, with the very distinct lever on the left rear of the headstock.

Stefan

That is so cool Fran. I love seeing someone skilled working with wood. I'm more of an smd rework & Dremel kind of guy. Very informative :-)

Gordo

By all means, enjoy it! Some of my happiest hours have been spend working at a lathe.

William E Lee

It is unbranded. Might have been a custom order design for a specific kind of operation. But I danno...

Fran Blanche

What make of lathe are you using?

William E Lee

Hi Fran. Very nice and simple construction out of your practice. Great job 👍 Thank you for sharing it.

hi Fran! Great video...so intresting. I worked as a grunt in a metal shop...grinding, cutting and moving metal around our shop. I always wanted to work the lathe! didn't know the value of finding center! sooo glad to be a patron!!! thanks again!!!


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