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and shakes the garage to pieces :D

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Now, I thought they were attached to the wall too. Closer look, I can see what you mean.

We need an org trip to the YC house to inspect the monster:D

Edit - hope this isn't a stoopid question. If you remount the motor, what happens to the drive belts?

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The mount that came with the lathe and motor was a bodge up anyway. Not a stupid question at all, the drive belts are a standard thickness and you can simply buy two more of suitable length.

This lathe is not a monster at all, it's a baby. A friend of mine used to work one round here that could turn 10' between centers!

We have one at work that will drill a 15/16" hole through mild steel, really hogging into it at a fair rate, the "duty cycle" meter hardly even nudging 10%. That is a bit of a beast, dims the lights a bit when you fire it up but I suppose it would, spinning a motor the size of an SV from 0-1500rpm in about half a turn!!

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Oh only a baby, imagine the lathes we used to turn turbine or generator rotors or the vertical ones that could swing 20 ft we used for turbine housings. I will have to go looking for piccies

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Ahhhhhhhh ok, those rectangular sections about an inch up from the smaller L brackets I assumed were nuts holding onto some ancor bolts in the wall. The noise transfer into the house did cross my mind, but I figured the YC household would be pretty used to the v-twin roar so much so that another vibration wouldnt make much difference lol.

Sounds like ur gonna have to make maria a keyring or something else all shiney shiney once its alive. ;)

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I made an awful lot of swarf, not sure if that counts :-)

Oh and YC if your lathe is somewhere where you can walk straight into the house its worth having a set of work shoes. Otherwise you *will* tread swarf throughout the house (it hurts when you step on it in bare feet, not to mention the grief from the missus).

Druid

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It is a judgement where to break the swarf, too long it get dangerous, to short it gets everywhere

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Sometimes you don't have a choice, eg turning square to round or milling. Also depends on what you're machining, the type of tooling and if you've got the lathe at the correct speed.

Worst I've done is let the swarf get too long at which point it got tangled round the chuck, and flailed the swarf on the bed/under the chuck everywhere!

Druid

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Very much recommend a workmat, something like these . I picked up a couple from a place in Brum, they look exactly like the ones in the link, about the same price too. I think they're all from the far east anyway.

They do a great job in insulating your feet from the cold floor, and allow a lot of the swarf to sit in the holes so the amount which gets stuck in your soles is reduced. Pick the mat up, sweep, mat back down.

Also if you do happen to drop something it minimises the chance of damaging it.

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