Sounds like a classic one size job in it's life time only, wear pattern.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:05pm
Quite agree Mrfixit. There are some very critical people in here.
mrfxit,
Jan 6, 7:09pm
Yea he's pretty good at being theoretically perfect, Got tired of that type attitude long ago. In the old days, we called them "book mechanics", straight off the uni books & thought they knew everything there was to know.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:12pm
Reckon.
ronaldo8,
Jan 6, 7:29pm
You mean you got tired of being wrong and are still sulking about being put right. Plonkers we called them , couldn't handle being disagreed with. Know f all as a result.
ronaldo8,
Jan 6, 7:44pm
Writes an entire book of self justifying waffle, tells me I should get over it.
Good luck scraping those bushes. id think id pay to see that lol. Maybe buy a hot glue gun seeing as you think simply adequate is in the realm of perfect, give them a generous squirt and call it done.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:46pm
Bitter little man.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:47pm
That's a bit what mine looked like when I got it.
mrfxit,
Jan 6, 7:51pm
LOL, first job, waterblaster, then crc/oil everything
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:52pm
It'd be ok for wood, or small diameters, but it's too solid for either really.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:54pm
Mine got picked up from the dump, with chook shit all over the various bits in a wooden box.
ronaldo8,
Jan 6, 7:54pm
The amount of arse based assumption in that block of waffle is off the charts. Totally clueless.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:57pm
Head start on making one though. At first I was just going to use it for centers, checking runout. But slowly figured out what needed doing to it and fixed it all up and it's good for another century now.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:58pm
Assumptions Ronaldo. Who ?
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:59pm
You don't know Ronaldo. Don't try to tell those that do.
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 7:59pm
It makes you look stupid, as well as bitter and twisted.
mrfxit,
Jan 6, 8:00pm
Lol meh, it's only as good as the operator anyway. It's amazing what you can do with the right operator. Seen plenty of "experts" screw up jobs with brand new equipment & old timers do a better job with worn out gear
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 8:06pm
Doesn't look to have a counter shaft and those belts won't do big torque directly like that. That would limit it to high rev small diameters for steel, or geared up to wood speeds.
ronaldo8,
Jan 6, 8:23pm
Ah huh, sure thing cowboy, get back to scraping those bushings
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 8:24pm
Go suck you lemons.
marte,
Jan 6, 8:34pm
It's a capstan lathe, ok technically a Turret lathe. Like mine but more basic. Back in the day that probably would have been steam powered, from a shaft running the length of the workshop that drove every machine, the shaft turned by a small coal fired steam engine. I did my apprenticeship in a workshop that was originally run like that. We joked that the original lathe had candlestick holders at each end.
But the Swiss, now they are in another league when it comes to machine shops. Nobody beats the Swiss when it comes to lathes & precision.
ronaldo8,
Jan 6, 8:34pm
If you want an example of a young guy with actual ability rather than the ability to cobble together a piece of crap, someone that started with nothing and has either fabricated or restored from throwaways everything you see in his videos then here you go.
The problem you have is that you expect credit to be given were it isn't due.
ronaldo8,
Jan 6, 8:35pm
Do they grow on bushes? Or bushings ?
mechnificent,
Jan 6, 8:37pm
Trees Ronaldo.
ronaldo8,
Jan 6, 8:49pm
Even dead wood should know the difference.
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