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Tagger · 09-02-2006, 10:56 AM

I don't know about a jet , My tail stock end slides easily , I start with my finish blank , Thats the ends cut off . Then I mark the centers with a awl, making an impression so bit stays right there. If your really having trouble drill your belly hole first, so drilling stops there . Don't hold your hand over that hole while drilling ,,alot of heat comes out of there, burns your hand and you'll let go . I hope you have your drill chuck in the live center , not the dead end . Drill bit spins not the blank . Ok holding the blank center on the dead end center slide towards spinning drill bit and align drill and blank center. go in just a litlle , back out and clear the chips . Depending on how good your drill bit is you can only go in like 1/4-3/4" before backing out and clearing chips . repeat . In a little(1/4"-3/4") back up and clear chips . If you do not clear the chips they jam up in there ,cause heat , and distort drill bit ,sending it off center. After you get the blank drilled half way thru , turn end for end and repeat all this . You'll feel the ends connect or if you've drilled belly hole 1st you can use it as a veiwing window and see it .. Hope your wearing a face shield . I don't like gloves on machinery,, your call, but if you do make sure they're not tattered . Another biggy is drill bits .. How much of a flute do they have .. The ones I use are flutted only about an inch .. Tried some that were fluted all the way and to wobbly for my liking .. 1" flute stiffer .. Ok assuming your using 1/8" or 3/16" drill bits ,,, 6-8 inches long .. What your drilling is a biggy too .. white pine is a can of corn to drill like butter.. Hard maple is difficult bits heat up , distort, they have to be really sharp (drill doctor).. Even then it can be dangerous if a piece gets away from you .. comes out of your hand like a lead pipe. A firm grip helps and again a face sheild .. Drilling hard wood, I've even started with a shorter drill bit like 3" because its stiffer,, drilled both ends to get it going center-center. Then put 6"-8" bit in chuck and even free hand from there. Free hand ? yea .. I'd start this way first ,, no free hand just yet . . Larger Bits ,, drilling for arse weighting I use a Cordless drill .. I think you'd be crazy to put a large bit in your lathe chuck ..

Backbeach Jake · 09-02-2006, 11:12 AM

"Drill the belly hole first"

Uhhhhh, I knew that..

Why do the simplest this like this get by me?

justplugit · 09-02-2006, 01:25 PM

Great stuff Tagga,

nows i gotta go out and buy a freekin drill doctor too.

Tagger · 09-02-2006, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by justplugit

Great stuff Tagga,

nows i gotta go out and buy a freekin drill doctor too.

doesn't seem to do as well on 1/8" bits.too small ,,,,flattens them . . borrow one first see if you like it .. You can probably afford to just keep buying bits . I do alot of door hardware in work so I don't mind owning one .

Young Salt · 09-02-2006, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Tagger

I don't like gloves on machinery,, your call, but if you do make sure they're not tattered .

You should NEVER wear gloves using when using a lathe, or any machinery really.

An old PM post.....

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Gloves
I second the thought of no gloves around machinery. I have been in the machine shop for almost 30 years and have seen some nasty accidents. I have got plenty of stitches to prove it. A fellow worker was just polishing 1" dia. shafts with sandpaper in a lathe and like a fool he was wearing gloves, he did not want to get dirty. Well when you sand the outside of something never grab your hand around the part being sanded because the paper can bind up or grab itself. If possible hold both ends of the paper to sand or polish that way you can let go when this happen's, and it will happen. He was sanding at high speed with gloves and using one hand around the shaft. Disaster struck and the end result was he pulled his finger off, not sliced it off but pulled it right off his hand when the glove got caught in the sandpaper. I saved the finger from the bed of the lathe but they could not reattach it. Needless to say he lost the finger. Machinery is very unforgiving so don't cut corners and rush. I know a little wood lathe doesn't look very dangerous but they bite. Just a little food for thought. P.M.

Tagger · 09-02-2006, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Young Salt

You should NEVER wear gloves using when using a lathe, or any machinery really.

An old PM post.....

I agree, brother-in law was degloved in sheetmetal rollers. Machine took the end off a couple of fingers, thumb and ripped all the skin off his hand only because he had no glove on and was able to rip his hand free. If he had been wearing a glove he'd be pulled in up to his shoulder . I'd rather get bit than mauled .. No gloves for me .. Recently heard a tool talk where wearing gloves was recomeded..

Flaptail · 09-02-2006, 05:31 PM

Thanks.

eastendlu · 09-02-2006, 05:47 PM

I use a laser beam burns a hole staight thru.

Nebe · 09-02-2006, 07:22 PM

lathe speed is criticle IMO- that huge batch of darters i did last year forced me to learn real fast that the slower you go the better. Less wandering... once i slowed down i hit center every time.

Tagger · 09-02-2006, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebe

lathe speed is criticle IMO- that huge batch of darters i did last year forced me to learn real fast that the slower you go the better. Less wandering... once i slowed down i hit center every time.

Damm .. never thought of changing speeds for drilling .. it works better on the hard wood ? good one .