On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:17:06 -0700, mac davis
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:29:35 -0700, "Bill" wrote:

I have been slowly making a prototype giant spur drive to send to a fellow
turner for testing - it's an excuse to play with my mill and learn how to
use it- well, there were plenty of learning experiences, but here's one I
did't expect - when I got done, I discovered I'd made a giant spur drive for
reverse turning only - in other words, the slope of the kife blades was
backwards - grrrr - I guess there really are times when a drawing would
help. But, at least I now have an extra box full of metal shavings to mix
with the wood shavings......

hmm.... not a lot of demand for outboard spur drives, Bill... *g*

I don't know if this is true, but supposedly when someone asked Edison how it
felt to fail over 1,000 times before getting a bulb to light, he said something
like "I never failed, I just found 1,000 ways that didn't work"...

Maybe the metal shavings would sell on Ebay as magic show accessories for
magnets??

Nah. Metal shavings will sell to any scrap dealer by the ton. If you
start using that mill a lot, it'd pay to make a plywood box about the
size of a pallet, and save them up- they add up quickly. A lot of
guys make a good deal of $$$ just collecting that kind of scrap.