custard~SPARTA~ Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 A couple of you may know that since working at a metal engineering manufacturers I have become interested in learning to use a metalwork lathe, I am lucky that my cousin lives next door has a half decent lathe and when covid has died down a bit has promised me some lessons, he was trained at the RN dockyard chatham. The video channel linked is doing the kind of thing I am interested in, he has only made 3 videos so far, because they are short and game related I thought some of you may be interested. If you didn't know you can use a lathe to do the jobs he is using a mill for. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0L9JUPA1ga5CZiJ1s249aQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I watched all three videos. I wish I had these abilities so I could have my own sim pit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custard~SPARTA~ Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 I didn't even know that the pointy bits at the bottom of the digital calipers are for scribing a mark on work until I watched one of these videos and I have been working in an engineering environment for a few years now! I also didn't know any of the terminology for the parts of a lathe, I do now because I have just watched a guide. All of these abilities can be learnt, however another real problem has presented itself my want list for machinery has grown. If I ever get to retire my workshop is going to need to be as big as my house! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrester~SPARTA~ Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 (edited) There must be some old factories for sale in the Uk 😛 I still ahve plenty of model kits waiting in boxes.... And my biggest machinery for that will be a dremel Edited January 25, 2022 by Forrester~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custard~SPARTA~ Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 With the way things are going there are going to be even more factories for sale over here, we are having more and more fabrication work outsourced to India. Unfortunately I cannot afford a factory sitting on 5 acres 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrester~SPARTA~ Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 well I think some of the production facilities will come back, we foud ourselves pretty vurnerable at the start of corona being dependant on countries on the other side of the world. The question remaisn will people pay for locally produced better quality.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adder360~SPARTA~ Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Ive not watched this but thorght this would be of intrested to you @custard~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custard~SPARTA~ Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 Thanks 👍 I did see that on youtube but hadn't got around to watching it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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