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Thanks for replies. I do have a bandsaw and in retrospect it was daft of me not to have cut the piece to some semblance of roundness. I'd have done that if the work was in metal. I guess I was thinking that because wood can be cut much faster than metal on the lathe it would be quicker than...

Well, no I haven't I confess. Presumably you have? Ouch! What happened? It can't have been the MT if secured by a drawbar. Bob

I don't do much wood turning and when I do it's on a metalwork lathe. I was turning a piece of iroko from an old lab bench tonight with the intention of making a round wooden plinth.: The brass bar is irrelevant - it's just stuck to the wood with double-sided tape and is there to move the work...

Mine neither. Morse tapers have long been used in milling machines - the Centec 2B to give one example is a light industrial machine equipped with an MT2 female spindle bore. Because Morse tapers are self-retaining they have to be removed from the spindle by force. Sometimes quite a lot - my...

Hmm, maybe that's an idea! After experiments and figuring out a rational order of operations it took perhaps 3 hours to turn out two frames - bandsaw, bobbin sander, chisel and a bit of hand sanding. I was happy to do it for free (the wood was scrap) but the guy insisted on pressing £150 into my...

Thanks for replies. The skylight hardware is actually sold for marine use, so I suppose the fitting method is different and hence no 'off the shelf' frame. All I had to go on was some YouTube stuff from people who had done something similar but without the need for rounded corners. Point taken...

I had a surprise visit from a chap coming over from the Netherlands who has a project to turn his transit van into a camper. He showed me some plans involving making internal wooden frames to fix the skylights he'd bought. Three days before he went back, so a bit of a rush (I have other stuff to...

It looks like you have the Vevor cross slide (100mm high). With a 75mm riser + QCTP this can't (by metal turning standards) be a very rigid arrangement and adding a topslide isn't going to help. But I guess you know that and obviously it's working for you so far - I imagine you are taking...

The strategies he suggests might or might not work. As others have said it very much depends on whether the local disk is encrypted or not. If it's an older machine with a removable hard disc it might be possible to take the disc out and read with another machine - not necessarily another Mac...

The filters on compressors are (afaik) simple mechanical meshes designed to capture particulates and oil/water mist, so not applicable here where the contaminants are vapour phase. In my experience the only way of catching volatile contaminants is by using a cooled trap (liquid nitrogen...

Thanks deema, and apologies for delay in replying - I've had guests, so little workshop time... Preliminary measurements suggest that my 350S can indeed hold that 'tension' with a half inch blade, but yet to try with a a 3/4 " claimed to be OK for the machine by Record. I'm sceptical frankly. Bob.

If I've understood this saga correctly, you had to resort to a nut splitter to get the collet retaining nut D off, but have removed the nut B (which seems to have the equivalent function to a drawbar in a milling machine) OK. So you're left with an MT2 collet chuck stuck in an externally...

Bit late to this thread, but can you tell us what tensions Ian recommended for the various blades? My reason for asking is that I read an article in my metalworking comic describing the construction of a blade tension measuring device and realised that I actually have one, bought as a curiosity...

Thanks for reply Andy. I stripped/rebuilt the vice when I bought it (about 4 years ago) and since then it has been working perfectly well. It turned out that dismounting the vice from the bench wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, though I had forgotten how heavy it is (~17kg)! When I got it...

I have a Record 53E vice - the quick release type - which has jammed up. I had (perhaps foolishly) clamped some work at one end of the vice without a compensating piece at the other end to keep the jaws parallel. When I tried to release the work the screw just clicked (ratchet mechanism) and...

I have a floor standing JET which was almost unusable because of vibration when I got it, but I don't recall if the problem was dependent on quill extension. It turned out that the pulleys were way out of balance. Having an engineering lathe I was able to fix it myself and the machine now runs...

Assuming that you have a 'cold working' alpha brass you may not even have to anneal: I rolled this from 1.6mm CZ108 in one pass without heat treating: The problem comes if you can't make the curve in one go - the stuff work-hardens something rotten. If you do need to anneal, +1 for what Phil...

The Parweld 160 (I'm the member who sold it to Phil) has similar specs - 7KVA I think. I did a bit of mental arithmetic before I bought and thought I needed a 32A (7000/240 = 29 Amps) supply, so as I was setting up my workshop at the time I asked the electrician to put in a dedicated 32A line. I...

The Alt+<numeric code> thing (being a Microsoft convention I think?) doesn't work at all on Linux. The Linux (or at least Gnome) way of doing it is is pretty much the same as you've described, except that there is no need for a window to pop up. As I'm typing if I do <Scroll Lock> Co I get © ...

In the absence of a definitive reply from someone who has the lathe I'd suggest getting hold of a thread gauge and measuring the pitch - if it comes in at 3.5mm, given that your measurement of the OD is within spec for M33 it's pretty certain than it's M33x3.5. JET Actually did a version of the...