[modeleng] Re: the wife...now screwcutting
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:09:46 -0800 (PST)
Eric,
May I suggest that you chuck up a piece of scrap and
have a go at it. Screw cutting is surprisingly easy
to learn. I have a 1943 Wards' Powercraft with
standard change gears and although it gets your hands
very greasy to change them, you can quickly learn how
to set up and when to close and open the half-nuts at
the proper time.
Al
--- Eric Walker <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hubert I've never had confidence to do any screw
> cutting on the lathes. I
> looked at the change wheels on the ML7 then put them
> away again. The largest
> thread I use is 1/2" Whitworth for the brakes on the
> engines, I cut these at
> slow speed on the Colchester with a die.
>
> Cheers E.W.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:31 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: the wife...
>
>
> > Hi Eric
> >
> > I had an onset of madness a couple of years ago,
> and bought, sight unseen,
> > from a chap I did not know, a 38-year-old
> Hardiinge lathe! It was
> > fortunately a good buy, and despite its great age,
> displays little wear.
> > It was quite a learning curve to learn to use the
> beast. It is heavily
> > built, but has a top speed of 3,000 rpm! It is
> joy for screwcutting -
> > you can cut at speed up to a shoulder, and it
> STOPS. The handbook
> > suggests modestly, that you do not screwcut at
> more than 1,000rpm!
> >
> > Cheers! Hubert
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eric Walker"
> <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:03 PM
> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: the wife...
> >
> >
> >> Hello Hubert I met a bloke at Harrogate 2 years
> ago he was 82 & had just
> >> bought a new lathe, so I have a way to go. Thanks
> for the toast.
> >>
> >> E.W.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:51 AM
> >> Subject: [modeleng] Re: the wife...
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi Eric
> >>>
> >>> Happy 80th on the 29th December - you beat me by
> exactly eight months!
> >>>
> >>> I shall raise a glass to you on that day.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers! Hubert
> >>>
> >>>
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