Hot lathe chips

watched the video thanks, Joe Noci......

did you see the guy in the coil spring part of the video "in a Jumper"...........

wish I could get 1/2 the finish on metal as those guy's........

the video was almost as good as sex, must be getting old......hahaha....can u say that ??????

SORRY.......

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Wait to you get one on your todger!

A hottie in the ear is amusing, the smell of burning hair and jumping about trying to get it out, had many down the front of the overall and on the tongue.

The only time i will wear glasses is when wearing a hard hat with flip down visor.
Coupled with long sleeve coat zipped up to neck - need protection.

Happened a few times learnt my lesson wearing safety glasses for slightly tougher work/interupted cuts. Chips lodge between glases and shin, tantrum and chips drop down on bottom eye lid scared for life.

Apart from the free machining aluminiums all other stuff will come off stringy, no point in using guards or perspex on magnetic bases they wont last 1 minute no joke.

Could do a short video tomorrow for the reasons why, failing that a couple of action shot piccies.

Ok, only Aluminium chips, but, man! do they fly...

**LINK**

Where machining time is money - amazing stuff.

Have to excuse the Bombast a little..

Joe

In the toolroom alongside Joe the shaper’s machine, he had a large box of nuts, bolts, and a range of clamps.

As a quite young and clearly insufficiently experienced apprentice, I was helping myself to some bolts from the box, presumably because I was using the other shaper alongside Joe's machine.

Something landed on top of my head as I was bending down, and not realising what it was, I tried to brush it off with my hand. Silly me!

It was a very hot piece of swarf fresh off Joe's machine. It neatly wrapped itself around one of my fingers so I couldn’t brush it off.

Oh the pain, the pain!

Blimey, you lot do go on about pain and misery! Any who've worked in the industry will have their tales of woe.

Yer don't gotta do this! Yer not doin' it fer pay! How many times I gotta tell yer?

Cut slow, cut light. Then you don't need to encase yourselves in armour and visors.

Edited By Mick B1 on 27/06/2018 08:13:04

yeah this is fun

Ross

I'd rather suffer the odd hot chip than die of boredom waiting for a cut to finish.

Andrew

Haha. The worst one at work as an apprentice was assisting the welder. He could flick the glowing end of a welding rod down the open front of an apprentice's overalls without even looking up from the job.

Last week I stepped into my sandals just to go and lock up my workshop. I couldn't help doing a few more cuts on my big Harrison lathe. I then did a very silly hot swarf between the toes dance, which is a bit like tap dancing but with more swearing.

When I was 14 I was signed up for the Arborfield Army Apprentice school, I had a couple weeks to wait before joining. I approached a local Engineering firm and was given a job at 21 shillings a week, My first job was to clean up the wash room which was filthy but i did it with Vim. Next I was given the job of drilling some big half inch plates and then tapping the holes with a pillar drill which reversed itself after tapping. Along side were two big Ward capstan lathes and one was making Fuse bodies and the other was making big fat washers, Again alongside was Milling machine and it was set up to horizontally cut stacks of half inch plates, boy did those chips fly and i could feel the concrete floor shake as it started to cut. The chips came off blue and they put screens around the machine to stop the ships flying, guess who got the job of cleaning up.

Clive

Superb! Thanx for sharing.

SOP here in my workshop. And swimmies. And nothing else. Topless

Wear an apron though for nasty off hand grinding and mig welding...

Exactly. Why spend ages tickling off metal when you can cut it. That's got to better for the machine too, if that matters to you.

Make the lathe do the work, that's what I say

I decided this 2mm cut was too feeble, so had to crank it up to 3mm...

Don't want to even think of that.

Anyone who worked in the industry for any length of time will have taken hits in most or all of those places - I know I have.

Eventually you realise it's just unnecessary and pointless - at least some of us do.

Difference is some of us want the job done this century.
Intermittant turning will still come off warm ran slow and light, more so if hardened steel!

Precisely the point Neil if its not stressing the mechanics.
At the end of the day its a tool and tools break are replacable just like any other. Could balance that out over 12 months by taking your time and literally doing 1/32 nd of the work acomplished no joke.