A hardwood blank on the Faceplate, dished to hold the workpiece, and held with Turners' Cement while machining? Al Messer --- Harry Wade <hww@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 08:24 PM 1/20/06 -0000, you wrote: > >My Isle of Man Beyer Peacock has a one piece > casting for the dome. I don't > >know where the casting came from but it is a heavy > casting and the > machining would have been beyond me - Dave > > Machining . . . more specifically holding while > machining is the main > question isn't it. I envision spending as much or > more time on a > jig/mandrel, etc, for holding a casting as I will > the actual machining. > I've made such things in hard wood before and > managed to make them work so > I may again. > > Regards, > Harry > > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email > to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > "unsubscribe" in the subject line. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.