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Vicki Ford has a piece on doing this (with photo) on her website. Don't know the link straight off but it is in the links section of www.mini-lathe.com along with some other neat stuff. Gerry leeds

Hi Ken, Someone (possibly on this forum) had a neat idea after breaking the tip of a centre drill. They re-ground the thicker remaining stub to gouge AROUND the broke small tip. This allowed access

Hi John, Some have used a Dremel. I used an angle grinder and cleaned up on the bench grinder. Yes, it's hard. I initially tried a hacksaw but blunted it rather quickly. Get the length right. Cut it

Use Alum to etch them out. --- machinest80 <machinest80@...> wrote: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss

Hi Rance, After I bought my 7x I placed and order on LMS for accessories. Being in Oz I tried to include all I could think of to minimise freight. Nope. I missed things. Just taken delivery of

Hi, Well, the first question to ask is what do you plan on doing with it, e.g., size of stock to be turned? Max diameter? Max length? Turning gun barrels or pen casings? Take care,

I have used the thin cutoff disks in a Dremel tool. Cuts hardened tangs and leaves a fine finish. Soak your disks in atf, they last longer.

I have the cheap er32 chuck and collet set. The few sizes I have used are under .0005 run out. I think I paid about $50 (e-bay) for chuck and eleven collets. It's not the machine or tooling that

Aaron - Thanks for the vote of confidence. I put an Enco order in last night for ten 3/16" blanks and a few different carbide bits just in case. Ed

Don't sell your self short on grinding a tool - it's actually pretty easy to get a decent tool. The angles don't need to be exact. The most important part is to get a nice clean edge on the tool -

Interesting, a 2002 msg has resurfaced! For something that small, the most reliable way to get the broken drills out is chemically. Aluminum is pretty much non-reactive to acids, steel is reactive.

Actually, you can also turn wood with regular metal lathe tooling, handy for making quick fixtures. If you've got access to a decent library, look for anything by DeCristoforo & see if they have any

<captkenn@...> wrote: on Hi, When drilling aluminium a good cutting fluid is a must, this kind of metal welds to the drill bit quick.

Hi, the cross slide dial may say .002 because its on a O.D. (outer diamater ) and will take off twice the amount the slide is moved. wrote: HF been deal! I be especially the alot

Hi, I am thinking of getting a mini lath and wonder which is the best for the money, I can't spend a lot but don't mind paying for value. I would like to get a good one. I have been working in a

I wouldn't count on getting a Live Center with the Homier, but I just ordered one and will let you know. The Lathe description says it includes "1 center roller" that's not shown in the picture,

I have a ER 32 collet chuck for my 7x14. Question, for the precision (or lack of) that this lathe can do, will it make any difference which ER 32 collets I buy? I have found collets from

Thanks. That's what I had assumed, but I was a bit confused due to the conflicting information available.

A "rolling center" is actually the more technically correct name for what is commonly called a "live center". This topic can almost lead to blows between people it seems. And to throw gasoline on

According to the Homier 7x12 product info page, it includes something called a "rolling center". Is that a fancy name for a live center, or is it something else? According to the mini-lathe.com homier