Short arms long pockets

coming from Yorkshire that often how we are described so to live up to the reputation I never chuck owt away because you never know cap of WD40 can makes a great quill cover on a mini lathe and it's free.

Leaving politics aside, why would you want to cover the tailstock barrel?

Ian P

I'm also originally from Yorkshire, actually West Riding, 'alifax n 'uddersfield.

Now somewhere, I picked up the idea of using a wine bottle cork in the end of the tailstock barrel to stop any bits of muck getting inside. But, in true Yorkshire spirit, my wine bottle corks came from someone else!

Cheers, hic,

Peter G. Shaw

And now you will have to tell us why you have a wooden tailstock, you're not being tempted to the ...........dark side .......are you? Please say it isn't so!

Phil,

From Pudsey, but now happily dwelling in East Yorkshire, though I have to admit, East is least, but West is best!

I think you need to go speck savers Phil it's a lump of cast with quick release, the rest of the lathe is made from some sort of monkey metal.

Looking at the background of the pictures, the cap is probably placed over the tailstock to prevent the hole being used to store stuff in...

I can't resist it-----serious competition for John Stephenson in the tidy bench category; although it must be said that he is at Olympic standards already!

Brian

You trying to say I'm untidy how very dare you don't have time to tidy

Ian to stop crap getting in the lathe only a 14in bed so not a lot of room to leave tooling in there.

As I look around me it reminds me that only a short time ago I used to build boats and all the tools I needed fitted into a small box which tucked away in the bedroom.

Now I produce some swarf, chippings, filings and coils of metal from drill bits. The rest of my time is taken up ordering tools which I (might) use more than once, rereading plans and worrying (is that hole in the right place?) changing tools, hoovering up and searching for that gismo I know I have.... because I put it away safely.... somewhere???? Most importantly I'm running out of space to put my coffee cup.

I now know why it takes four years plus to produce an engine which doesn't work!!??

Jesse

I am with you on your post,the problem is I have very little room i am tucked away in the corner in a bedroom,i am always lookingfor tooling only to find them where I used them last.

Ah, so its the hole you are trying to protect. Oddly I think that the tailstock taper being om the lathe axis is in a location that swarf misses, most of it gets thrown out radially.

The bed on my lathe is not overlong but generally I leave the last thing I used in the taper rather than putting it away. Although I'm generally quite tidy I dont see the point of returning everything to its storage position just to get it out again next time.

By having the barrel extended to take your WD40 (ugh!) cap, you are shortening the space/elbow room for operations where the tailstock is not required.

Ian P

He did say that he had short arms

Ketan

> He did say that he had short arms

ROFL!

Neil

There is more room than having tooling in ,besides if I'am not going to use the tailstock I get the heavy lifting gear in and take it of.

Good one Ketan!

If you watch a foreign person reading this thread from the heading, followed by the first post onwards, he/she would think that every person coming from Yorkshire genetically has short arms and deep pockets, in a literal sense ....and that would be even funnier to watch .

Come to think of it, I had to get used to 'Ai up mi duck', 'Gaffa', 'Round Toit', 'Cob and butty', when I moved up from London some eighteen years ago. I used to think that 'Ai up mi duck' was some kind of 'gay phrase', 'Gaffa' was some rude word, and John S and our Alan did take the piss making me think for over a week that a 'Round Toit' was some kind of bolt. Cob and butty, well !

Ketan

Ketan I think you've got your areas mixed those phrases are all from the Midlands Not the great Yorkshire were the capital of England is York.

Ketan is in the Midlands, ducky!

Neil

My Father in law had 'a Rown Tuit ' cunningly disquised as plate. Funny how Tuits are never square.