I just had this picture in my head of a bloke trying to hollow out a
blank through the headstock spindle...

Isn't that why they're hollow? I just sharpened the end of the ram rod
that came with the lathe, that's made to go through the head stock..
Shaving removal is sort of slow, too..

I thought you had a vacuum fitting?

nope.. I was the one that thought that they were too expensive, until
the vacuum thread... now, I'm just too lazy to build one...

Ah. I was like that, but now I'm too lazy to procrastinate.

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- Andy
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"This old baby's crashed more times than a ZX-81!" - Kryten.