Metal Spinning

[IOWOLF]

Not quite so Norm.

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The tame Wolf !

[Norman Atkinson]

Enough from you, the Meat Wolf!

You were kidding us- well, them!

N

[Too_Many_Tools]

I am thinking about acquiring a lathe for spinning metal.

I would recommend any advice you might have in what is available.

Thanks

TMT

[Alistair Hosie]

From what I can gather most woodworking lathes with a little modification to the tool resst with pins built in should be fine enough perhaps get a book on it.Any metal spinning I have seen is done this way Alistair p.s have much fun

[thistle]

There was an article or series of articles in either HSM or MW a good while ago about metal spining,one article involved taking apart a 3 in1 lathe and making it into a metal spinning lathe.
I know the magfazines are around here some where , but probably cant find them with out a seriuos search.

[thistle]

also an article in MEW from a while back,

[Your Old Dog]

I read somewhere it was hard on a lathes bearings as was knurling with the older style tooling. If that's so, you might want to buy a bigger lathe than planned?

[Alistair Hosie]

Y O Dog I don't see how it could be any harder than bowl turning on the bearings but perhaps I am wrong regards Alistair

[aostling]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Too_Many_Tools:
I am thinking about acquiring a lathe for spinning metal.

I would APPRECIATE any advice you might have.

TMT</font>

James P. Riser of Tucson http://www.jamesriser.com/CD_Preview/Intro.html has this web page devoted to his experience in spinning. I recently bought his CD-ROM, but I have not yet had time top view it in depth.

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Allan

[JRouche]

Nice metal spinning read..JRouche

http://prl.stanford.edu/documents/pdf/spinning.pdf