Paulbarrett
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Thats the rebuild im refering to. Awesome work, i dont think ill be going to that length, tempting as it is as its in my nature. I just want to get some chips flying as sokn as possible now!
That's a good lathe. Used to use an L5 at one of my previous employers - easy lathe to use. Our lathe appeared to have metric dials but we worked out that it was actually in thou. I think the cross slide dial was in 400 divisions.
One thing that annoyed me was when you were changing the auto feed from facing off to normal cutting you had to remember to reverse the direction.
Haha, I thought that when I opened the box. See how far I can stretch it
Arnt they handsome lathes when they have,nt got there knickers on...pure quality..Great job mate from when you picked it up
you might regret that...John (doubleboost) has just swapped his because the flexy stem started to sag like it had just drunk 10 pints of larger..check out his nightcap vid about 2-3 weeks agoHaha,
It is certainly well made, simply too. I can tell I'm going to get on well with Harry.
Was forced to ikea today to look at some crap fort daughters bedroom. Thought It would be rude to leave empty handed so picked up a couple of their beat little LED flexy work lights.
you might regret that...John (doubleboost) has just swapped his because the flexy stem started to sag like it had just drunk 10 pints of larger..check out his nightcap vid about 2-3 weeks ago
I'll probably not use it too much as have 5ft fluorescent lighting above the lathe
new high frequency electronic ballasts in flourescents dont cause strobe efect like the old magnetic onesI thought florescent lighting wasn't recommended for tools that spin because the flicker can make the chuck appear to be still at some speeds? Of course you know it's still spinning but never the less it looks strange.