Thread: Musing about things I had assumed I knew, but didn't.
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Default Musing about things I had assumed I knew, but didn't.
(Arch) writes:

2. Does pounding a blank into a spur center on the lathe [snip]
harm the bearings?

One of the books I own suggest removing the spur center, and pounding
it into the wood, and then inserting it back into the headstock.

Certainly sounds like a safer approach.

I think it was the Tage Frid book on Shaping.

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