I am learning and having fun, so please bear with me on some newbie
questions. I have a DB200.
1) Cutting Off: If you are supporting a workpiece between centers or
even just on a chuck, what are you supposed to do when you get the
part just about cut off? If if falls off, it will hit the ways. It
is still rotating so you can't grab it.
2) How does one match up at the point where I need to rotate the
workpiece after turning between centers? I can only cut to the point
just before my cross slide hits the chuck or the lathe dog. Then I
turn it over to turn down the part that was previously in the chuck or
lathe dog. I can never seem to get it totally matched with the
previously turned section. I usually end up with some sort of a mark,
either high or low.
3) Do people tend to leave their belts on the pulleys when they are
done for the night or do they tend to take them off? Do the belts
last longer if they are not under tension or doesn't it really matter?
4) How does one face a workpiece when using the live center? There
doesn't seem to be much room to get a cutting tool in there to face
the workpiece.
5) I don't have an indexing attachment. Are there any commercial
rotary tables that work well with the Unimat? If not, has anyone made
the rotary table as described in Rex Tingey's book available in the
Files section?
Thank you for your answers.
