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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: TONY MALIN on January 05, 2016, 06:20:36 PM

Title: TOYING AROUND IN FRANCE
Post by: TONY MALIN on January 05, 2016, 06:20:36 PM
if you've got a couple of minutes to spare I recommend the video in this month's Woodturning on Line. Say what you think is the most striking!
Title: Re: TOYING AROUND IN FRANCE
Post by: Les Symonds on January 05, 2016, 07:26:08 PM
The immediate thought that struck me, as the man entered the workshop, was the mayhem of dust and noise that there must have been......Health and Safety officers (quite rightly) would have a field-day there.
Les
Title: Re: TOYING AROUND IN FRANCE
Post by: Steve Jones on January 06, 2016, 07:53:45 AM
I remember my Grandads old factory like this with flat belts.
The two catches with the gouge is what's strikes me.
Title: Re: TOYING AROUND IN FRANCE
Post by: TONY MALIN on January 06, 2016, 10:12:15 AM
So Steve did your grandad also bash the wood into the headstock with a 4 Lb hammer?
Title: Re: TOYING AROUND IN FRANCE
Post by: Steve Jones on January 06, 2016, 10:24:35 AM
Yes Tony did see him do that on the odd occasion. But not generally. He never had a 4 jaw chuck only a primative 3 jaw for years. His one lathe had internal spindle thread not morse taper and he would hand chase threads for it with amazing speed if they were slightly loose a bit of sandpaper rolled around it did the trick.
Of course in those days the bearings were not ball bearings but bronze I would not reccommend to start bashing wood into your Lathe now.