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Today I've been spending a backdated pay rise 😊 Goodies include 3 axis DRO for lathe, Mitutoyo Digital Caliper and a few other measuring tools and some of the sundries for the lathe.

There's lots of differing techniques on YouTube.

I've got this one which I used mainly for building my workshop bench out of wood but I've cut a couple of pieces of hollow square bar and angle plate albeit very thin and they came out fine

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What's this tool called? Is there any other tool suitable for use on the lathe to make large grooves off centre where you can't bore?

I will most certainly be keeping it, at the moment I'm just creating swarf and practising techniques anyhow

What part of Bedfordshire Bob?

Sooooooooo...... Problem solved

After trying a few different things, ordered a normal hss tool piece, tried other metals, mild steel, aluminium, and another piece of brass was still getting the same results so decided to change belt speeds. After changing the speed to the slower end it then dawned on me..... the competent electrician that wired up my lathe has wired the switch the wrong way round, I didn't notice at higher speed but I'd been using it in reverse, thankfully I was only taking light cuts. Flipped the switch and started again and voila! It's a pleasure to use, the tangential tool cuts the brass like a hot knife through butter as does the HSS tool bit I bought.

We all were beginners at some point

This is the same piece of brass

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Do you have a link to your band saw?

Cheers all, will begin the hunt for a 4 jaw and DTI, Know I'm going to need a drill chuck pretty soon too.

Have got some hss too 😊

Edited By Curtis Rutter on 29/03/2017 17:07:44

So I got very little in the way of tooling with my lathe (myford ML7) when I purchased it and was wondering what would be the best piece of equipment to buy next?

All I have at the moment is a 3 jaw Pratt & Burnerd chuck, Quick change toolpost with tangential toolholder and a bench grinder.

My first thoughts are either a collet set or some tailstock tooling but if anyone has some better suggestions for me to spend some of my money then let me know!

Have pm'd you David

It's definitely not I'm paranoid about that! I'm located in Ware, Hertfordshire, UK

So to answer some of the points raised....in regards to some of the markings, the initial facing cuts were very light and the material had some rough saw marks on. The outer marks were caused by me attempting to turning across some of the length and not getting that right either! The tool was never dragged across the face after the spindle had stopped, I've always moved the tool away from the workpiece before turning off the lathe. Will check out the post ref angles John, Ta.

ML7 it is, will get hold of some mild steel and attemp that

The colouring is due to the lighting in my workshop, I assure you it's brass in colour

The speed I'm trying to work out, excuse my ignorance but I'm still new! But this is the belt configuration. Diameter of brass is 40mm and I believe it's cz108The cutting tool

So after finally getting the lathe set up accurately I got a chance to make first cuts on some brass I had but it's coming out like so when facing

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I'm not the youngest chick in the roost, however at 30 I often feel like it when I've been to exhibitions or popped along to the local club and or at the college class I'm currently undertaking. Still new to the world of engineering and model making but I'm thoroughly enjoying the challenges and the chance to de-stress on my days off (apart from when I fluff it up!)

For setting centre height I've always just measured up against dead centre on the tailstock (as long as the lathe has been set up accurately) only takes a few seconds each time and has always been spot on.