Well I finally got some time to collect material to rebuild and alter my lathe so that I can get back to doing ornamental rose engine stuff.
I bought some 10mm and 15mm oil impregnated industrial nylon sheets. i have use this stuff to make chucks and a cross slide etc before and it holds threads etc well.
now i have to cut the slides and plates to make a cross slide but this one will have to base plates a fixed one and a sliding one as my headstock will be fixed and the cutter on the cross slide will cut the patten by moving against the rosettes under tension it is simply a reverse system to the head stock moving and with a fixed plate and a moving plate I will be able to set the cutter posistion as well .
Unfortunately I have a bit on before christmas so i dont think i will have time to do much but when I do i will try and put some photos up of the progress but my skills in transfering photos to the net are not great.
Cheers Mike
I bought some 10mm and 15mm oil impregnated industrial nylon sheets. i have use this stuff to make chucks and a cross slide etc before and it holds threads etc well.
now i have to cut the slides and plates to make a cross slide but this one will have to base plates a fixed one and a sliding one as my headstock will be fixed and the cutter on the cross slide will cut the patten by moving against the rosettes under tension it is simply a reverse system to the head stock moving and with a fixed plate and a moving plate I will be able to set the cutter posistion as well .
Unfortunately I have a bit on before christmas so i dont think i will have time to do much but when I do i will try and put some photos up of the progress but my skills in transfering photos to the net are not great.
Cheers Mike