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Looks nice Jim, I had to look up a Gestetner lathe, as I'd not encountered them before, English made ey.
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Looks nice Jim, I had to look up a Gestetner lathe, as I'd not encountered them before, English made ey.

Ah sorry....that label is off an old copier from around the 1920s that I found at the rubbish tip and took that makers plate off and stuck it on my lathe for fun.

My lathe is a Chinese Sieg C6.

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Looks nice Jim, I had to look up a Gestetner lathe, as I'd not encountered them before, English made ey.

Ah sorry....that label is off an old copier from around the 1920s that I found at the rubbish tip and took that makers plate off and stuck it on my lathe for fun.

My lathe is a Chinese Sieg C6.

Hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas Day.
No worries, I got a map of the United States on my Chinese lathe...lol.
I was taking in all the sights in your pictures, you have a lot of measuring equipment in the photo.
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Bruce you've probably already made and use one of these tailstock die holders for your old lathe, its something that made ages ago and I use all the time as well -


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This is also something I made up and couldn't be without -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfoSqPa0zgQ&t=134s
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Honestly, to true a small part, I have a set of washers in various sizes that I use to get them flush with the jaws. I've been looking up the  tac2 adhesive lubricant you talked about in your video.
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Honestly, to true a small part, I have a set of washers in various sizes that I use to get them flush with the jaws. I've been looking up the  tac2 adhesive lubricant you talked about in your video.

Sounds interesting Bruce, can you enlarge on how you go about that? I'd like to try that out.
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Honestly, to true a small part, I have a set of washers in various sizes that I use to get them flush with the jaws. I've been looking up the  tac2 adhesive lubricant you talked about in your video.

Sounds interesting Bruce, can you enlarge on how you go about that? I'd like to try that out.
Its really simple Jim, I just use a flat washer that's a bit larger than the part, where the part can be flush with the jaws, I can make a video, buts its really simple & easy.😊
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Ok, I I'm pretty sure I follow but what about small offcuts that are longer than being flush Bruce. That's where the ball bearing race shines (for me at least).

I try really hard to use up all my brass and ali offcuts.
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Ok, I I'm pretty sure I follow but what about small offcuts that are longer than being flush Bruce. That's where the ball bearing race shines (for me at least).

I try really hard to use up all my brass and ali offcuts.
I try really hard to use up all the little bits myself 😉 often I will chuck up the little off-cuts in the tail stock chuck, ease it into the head stock chuck & align the protrusion that way.
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Ok, I I'm pretty sure I follow but what about small offcuts that are longer than being flush Bruce. That's where the ball bearing race shines (for me at least).

I try really hard to use up all my brass and ali offcuts.
I try really hard to use up all the little bits myself 😉 often I will chuck up the little off-cuts in the tail stock chuck, ease it into the head stock chuck & align the protrusion that way.

Hmm....clever for sure! Will try that Bruce.
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Are you cleaning your machinery down with compressed air Bruce? I watch a lot of machining videos on YT and everyone's mills & lathes always look so pristine......not mine....mine look like they have been rode hard and put away wet :(

My copper swarf catcher I couldn't be without, does keep 99% of swarf off the lathe bed and I can just sweep it off to the back swarf catcher and then into an oil drip tray (from an auto parts shop) for removal.
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Are you cleaning your machinery down with compressed air Bruce? I watch a lot of machining videos on YT and everyone's mills & lathes always look so pristine......not mine....mine look like they have been rode hard and put away wet :(

My copper swarf catcher I couldn't be without, does keep 99% of swarf off the lathe bed and I can just sweep it off to the back swarf catcher and then into an oil drip tray (from an auto parts shop) for removal.
" Are you cleaning your machinery down with compressed air Bruce?" never Jim, (per Tubal Cains instructions) although my Kurt vise is a pita to get into the nooks & cranny's. I do clean it after each use (mostly) now that I'm retired. I saw your swarf catcher & may have to fabricate one of those, i like the concept.
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PM-953TS digital quill DRO (for $30.50) cheap knee mill DRO, "quick detach"
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I have watched many videos about installing a digital Quill DRO on my knee mill & most required a bracket & spacer...etc. I thought this can't be all that difficult (& expensive) so I came up with what you see above. this is the vernier that I went with. I had some scrap brass & a little time.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832648164444.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.5.5c9b180252Wj50


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Are you cleaning your machinery down with compressed air Bruce? I watch a lot of machining videos on YT and everyone's mills & lathes always look so pristine......not mine....mine look like they have been rode hard and put away wet :(

My copper swarf catcher I couldn't be without, does keep 99% of swarf off the lathe bed and I can just sweep it off to the back swarf catcher and then into an oil drip tray (from an auto parts shop) for removal.
" Are you cleaning your machinery down with compressed air Bruce?" never Jim, (per Tubal Cains instructions) although my Kurt vise is a pita to get into the nooks & cranny's. I do clean it after each use (mostly) now that I'm retired. I saw your swarf catcher & may have to fabricate one of those, i like the concept.

I've worked in plenty of machine shops where compressed air was in constant use for clearing chips. However, these were all big open floorplans that allowed for easy sweeping later. My little crowded storage-room/shop has no place for chips to sail off to, so I do all my cleaning with a brush and a vacuum. Works well for me in my situation.

As an aside, the same is true with fly-cutters. As nice as they can be to use, there is just no place for those chips to fly too!

Nice job on the spindle readout Bruce!!!
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