- light cuts
- sharp tool with approx correct rake for the material
- approx correct speed for the material
- support at the tailstock end if the material is say greater
than 3 times longer than its diameter or 3 times longer than the
jaw
- use the tommy bars to clamp the work firmly in the jaws (1/8"
Meccano aka Erector rods are about perfect of you don't have the
originals)
The 3-jaw chuck won't centre precisely unless you are very lucky,
so until you've taken some metal off all round, it will cut on one
side and not the other - so use *very* light cuts at first else
the tool will bang onto the metal and stick until it is cutting
all round.
Maybe I'm not a beginner anymore !
On 06/04/2020 16:46, Daniel via
groups.io wrote:
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Hi there?
I've been trying to centre just round peices of steel and
aluminium but just having too much luck, I also don't know
anything much about machining or this lathe, so I have no idea
what I'm doing just trying to work things out. ?
Also I cant seem to find much out about the selects model the most
common seems to be the sl and dB series and I'm not sure how
similar they are ?
