These lathes are best suited to cutting soft metals such as brass and aluminum but can make ... For drilling using the tailstock, a drill chuck with a #2 Morse Taper will be a handy addition ...

Make your own darn metal screws with this 1889 foot-powered lathe! Roy shows how to cut perfect threads, cones and tapers in iron and brass ... THE BACK WHEEL ON THE TAILSTOCK, THE, UH ...

When turning brass or bronze, I keep the small chips from flying back ... Make sure you fashion the ring so that it rotates and can be locked at any setting. • I center a lathe tailstock by installing ...

While the bed, headstock, and tailstock “castings ... We love the finely detailed brass handcranks, which were made on the old lathe, and all of the lovely details [Uri] always builds into ...

While it’s not the most practical lathe – the carriage moves along the ways by turning a wheel underneath the tailstock – it does demonstrate a concrete lathe is possible.

Ways: The ways of the lathe are the flat or V-shaped surfaces on which the carriage and the tailstock are moved left and right. Each has its separate pair of ways, often one flat surface, for ...

He built his own small lathe using a Dremel rotary tool and some wood blocks. He carved a head and tailstock from a 2 x 4 and sharpened and carved a spindle from steel rod. The tools used ...

Ultimately, this distance controls the maximum length of the exposed workpiece from the headstock — or chuck — to the tailstock ... lathes are best suited to cutting soft metals such as brass ...