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Thread: Mini Lathe
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25th April 2013, 12:58 PM #31SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi Chris ... Thank you kindly for your considered post.
It is sound. I realised from this thread that it is much more likely that the operator needs the upgrade kit and not the Sieg C3.
I am going to take this advice, and other earlier posts hinted to me as much. If I have not fully understood and extended the C3's capabilities then it is self delusional to think a more expensive lathe will improve my abilities.
my budget is now free and I may buy a small cheeeep mill along the lines of the C3 and spend more time on my education with these tools before upgrading.
So funny, but the older I get the less vain I have become and the more willing I am to accept others advice. My earlier teachers in ALL fields, who surely despaired, would love to see this post ... Haaaa
Greg
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25th April 2013, 01:25 PM #32GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Greg,
Now that you have your lathe mill sorted, to back up a little.
Scraping(as in the video) is used to get all the high points of a surface on the same plan(flat).
If two scaped surfaces are going to slide over each other, Flaking is a pattern that maybe applied to help hold oil(or even air?). Two flat surfaces tend not to slide over each other well.
He doesnt use a power scraping in that video, only a power flaker, they are two different machines(though they look pretty much the same). They dont normally come cheap.
Stuart
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25th April 2013, 01:35 PM #33SENIOR MEMBER
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Ta Stuart ...
That really had me puzzled. When no one replied to that bit I thought I had asked a question out of turn. ('Strewth ... Where do we start with this idiot' ... Haaa)
You have made it dead simple and now I will re-watch the video again.
cheers muchly ... Greg