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Agreed. Well done.

A morse taper drive centre can be held in a wood turning chuck & removed quickly when no longer required. A lot of professional turners do this. The prongs on drive centres should be kept sharp using a fine file. The centre point can be touched up by carefully using a small flat file used in...

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A couple here at under £3 + £1.20 p&p - Keith Rowley - AbeBooks

I have had 2 of the cheapest analogue meters that you can buy for over 10 years. One for the workshop & one for indoors. Missing a continuity buzzer & some will say the DC current range is a bit lacking but they are more than adequate for domestic use. £6.19 - Analogue Multimeter AC DC Volt Ohm...

In reply to the OP, I have a wood burning stove in my garage workshop. It is next to the lathe & regularly gets covered in dust & shavings without setting them alight. Embers falling or being spat out into the shavings are the biggest risk. I am careful to move the shavings off the fire before...

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The arm sticking out of the dial is spring loaded. When pressed against rotating work any out of round is transferred to the dial.

I use the Vari-grind gouge holder (because I got it cheap) in conjunction with King Heiple's grinder stand & metal arms bought from Ebay. The Tormek is too slow for re-profiling where a lot of metal has to be removed. It is possible to use the Tormek jig with a bench grinder & the result should...

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Posted this in the woodturning section back in 2018. Very useful for accurate measurement especially if your eyesight isn't as good as it used to be. The bottom two measure 10mm for one turn of the needle with each small mark being one tenth of a millimetre - more than accurate enough for any...

There are plenty of variations of chucks & their keys. Try the attached chart.

No, you were correct. You clearly stated with wood between centres.

Do what the old time turners did & cover the base with sticky back green baize (other colours are available). Only a turner will know why it's been used.

Just to clarify the point, if you run the lathe in reverse with the wood mounted in the chuck & the chuck doesn't have a means of locking it to the headstock, then it may unthread itself. If the wood is mounted in a chuck & supported by the tailstock centre, then the chuck can't unscrew. If you...

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