On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:52:32 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 06:33:47 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

Ivan Vegvary fired this volley in news:231bc238-
:

Any advice, especially lathe procedures would be greatly appreciated.

It's a simple boring (both lathe and ho-hum) job.

Chuck it in the 4-jaw with more than 3/8" overhanging. Bore, turn to
o.d., face, cut off a little long.

Mount 3-jaw. Flip the work, and face the other end to get the right
thickness. (index the faced surface against a block to get the piece
square to the axis)

It's a huge, thick piece. There's plenty of meat to chuck both times.

Lloyd
Why make all those chips from a solid block instead of using a
"pipe" to start with??

Because seldom is the hold the right size when using Pipe. Often
times..its too big.

Sched 160 pipe may be of some..some help..but having any of that
around simply takes up space unless you use a lot of it.

A block or round of material on the other hand..can be turned into a
lot of things. Not to mention Ive turned blocks into rounds and
rounds into blocks when I needed a specific material and only one the
wrong shape.


"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child,
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
PJ O'Rourke