On 03 Jul 2006 12:39:31 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:


Has anyone thought of using their lathe as a pen press? After all,
you can turn all the adapters you want, and there's a ram in the
tailstock...

I thought of this last night as I was using my tailstock to press 3/4"
ball feet blanks onto a 1/4" jam chuck.

The main problem there for me, and maybe it's because this all started with my
Shopsmith, is that we tend to give the lathe too many jobs...

Unless i came up with something that left the pen mandrel in the spindle and
such, it would require going to a production mode and pressing them all at once
or turning a pen and changing to a press, them back to turning mode...
It's just not worth it to me...


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