Anyone else find turning relaxing?

[not done it yet]

Bearing in mind it's yonks since I last used a DTI, it signifying a couple of thou if it's moving two graduations on the scale?

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Matt,

Strictly speaking that is a dial gauge, so the change in the reading should be correct.

A DTI is generally a comparative instrument and usually moves in an arc, so the actual readings may not be accurate, but are indicative of a change. Usually used where the correct setting of, say, a vise or workpiece gives no change as the instrument is run along an edge or surface.

 

[a111r]

IMO one thing that's better is similar, making biodiesel from used veg oil. Take some repellent rancid waste and make sparkly goodness you can run an engine on.

I thought I recognised your user name from VOD, and now you've confirmed that.
I'm under the radar. Ten years on and it's dead now.

Dead.

 

[Matthew Tinker]

I still love turning, I first used a lathe in metalwork in school, aged 14, it took me 40 years to get my act together and buy myself a lathe, now I have 3 lathes and 55years late I still enjoy it as much.

 

[8ob]

I don’t mind modifying or proving/developing stuff on the mill or lathe but when it comes to numbers of an item I hand it over to a mate with a cnc.

Bob

 

[KemppiFrog]

I don’t mind modifying or proving/developing stuff on the mill or lathe but when it comes to numbers of an item I hand it over to a mate with a cnc.

Bob

I was about to call you a philistein, then thought 'quite right'. I rarely need to make more than one or two of anything, but Johnny-no-mates when it come to friends with lathes/mills.
There is a good and welcoming machine shop in the local ville, does quite a lot of work on classic engines, but def not cheap.

 

[fizzy]

Yes I love using my lathe. Sadly I never get any "me" time!
Strangely I find hard physical work in the warehouse even more relaxing - down to the fact I can rest my poor brain and not have to think about anything!