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This one is the top performer at present:
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Hard to believe that several manufacturers would go to the trouble of producing "Sealed Bearings" if there was not some merit in the task.

We should try not to be too quick to judge lest we...

Actually, Don they should last considerably longer.
The cost shouldn't be more that 15-20% and when you have em out, it no a big deal.
ps. we get 50- 100% longer longer life with sealed bearings in...

O.K. Jim but what about my lessons?

But wait, I have already learned my lesson at HD!

Fool me once. -:)

Bob

Kind of like going to Mcdonalds for cooking lessons -:)

Bob

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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I make that cut occasionally and I use a piece of 1 x 3 clamped to the fence and just snugged to the board to prevent lift off. I push the piece thru the saw with a sacrifical piece of 1 x 3 and...

Heres a pic from and old readers digest book on porches and swings circa 1994.
Try your local library. That's where I found this one.

Bob

Tungsten carbide is an extremely brittle material and can develop micro cracks from being dropping and or tossed in a drawer etc.
Unless one can be sure that the defect was in the bit at the time...

You can try here Bill.
We wear a lot of gloves up here in the oil patch Maybe that's why the big selection.
Cheers
Bob
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:D
look in the classifieds below this reply.

bob

I use them to hand off bowls to the driving chuck and back .
It's handy to leave some work on one when finishing as well.
Mount a sanding disc on the tailstock chuck and you can get a true bottom...

I live in the oil patch of Alberta.
We all wear gloves here. We rope and brand with them and in the colder weather we run machinery with them.
Running a lathe mandates that you keep your hands out...

Where is the PM made?
Maybe your are unwittingly sending money overseas along with quite a few jobs:eek:

I didn't think that $3200 was all that far off $2800 Jim?
It still is the standard by which all other lathes are measured and the resale value is legendary.
If you went to buy one today the wait...

For the kind of money your are willing to spend you should definetly try to rule out a OneWay. Simply the best machines on the planet.


Bob

I would have made the crown a bit wider and the apron (base of the king) a little narrower
Nice effort for first try though.
Do the knights first. After that, every thing is easy.

My weekend jaunts took me to one of my haunts the morning.
Nothing special caught my eye and I began to lament not going directly to the shop. Instead I continued to persue a kit of 16 guage air...

Yes Keith, you can vote with your wallet.
Voting with an open mind would be nice too but we can't go there. :rolleyes:

My Grandmother used to say:
"Pity the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
I know what that means now.

Bob

Good luck to you both then.
Bob

I agree with you Don but this does not appear to be the case here or am I reading the original question wrong?
P.s. Experience makes most things easier. <g>

Bob

For what it's worth, I have long ago declined any jobs that had budget and time constraints or both.
Your current proposal also includes a fair modicum of risk in that the request is beyond the...

Thanks so much Jim,

bob