I use a few drops of alcohol with gummy aluminum. It helps keep it from sticking to the cutters so bad and usually does wonders for the surface finish.
Congrats on the new tailstock. Will you be making a taper in the end of the quill? I recently made a new one for my mini lathe and having a morse taper reamer was very helpful with my flexible boring bar. Also does the gingery book use a simple screw into the quill to lock it? I've had a few old lathes like that and they were nowhere near as good as having a proper quill lock that draws two pieces of metal together against the shaft.... Trying to think of what those are called.... Not a very useful comment!
I think I kind of do want to know how long your various operations took. The few Gingery lathe build series I have found on youtube show the build and that’s about the end of it. I look forward to you showing us all kinds of operations with the finished product.
I use a few drops of alcohol with gummy aluminum. It helps keep it from sticking to the cutters so bad and usually does wonders for the surface finish.
Congrats on the new tailstock. Will you be making a taper in the end of the quill? I recently made a new one for my mini lathe and having a morse taper reamer was very helpful with my flexible boring bar.
Also does the gingery book use a simple screw into the quill to lock it? I've had a few old lathes like that and they were nowhere near as good as having a proper quill lock that draws two pieces of metal together against the shaft.... Trying to think of what those are called.... Not a very useful comment!
I'm planning on a taper, and have some MT1 reamers :)
Very nice work sir. You impressed me so much with the effort and attention to detail you put into this. Great video
Great job
I think I kind of do want to know how long your various operations took. The few Gingery lathe build series I have found on youtube show the build and that’s about the end of it. I look forward to you showing us all kinds of operations with the finished product.
It's a lot of passes with not much depth of cut, which isn't exactly gripping material. This isn't like the big boy lathes :(