I'm whittling up a small live center for the lathe as the big one gets in the way when working on small parts. It's going to be a variant of one of the later vids by Joe Pie. Got the radio on, coffee full, cutting 17ph for the center pointy part to .01mm for a slip fit in the bearings. Right, got that slip fit perfect. Now for the body. The lathe is a little SB9 with a mt3 in the spindle. The part to machine is mt2 to fit the tailstock. I grab the adapter I've used dozens of times to do the boring in the mt2 part.. Idiot. That mt3 adapter is for the collets, not a 3 to 2 adapter. Hello evilbay and $8 later it's on order. With rona it'll be a while before it arrives.
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Being an effin rocket scientist,,, I just figured I can grab the big end with the 4 jaw chuck and do my work. But being a stubborn idiot the light went on too late and I'll wait for the 3-2 adapter. I mean I'm not spending the princely sum of $8 for nothing.
Double edit: Cartoon definitely not to scale.
edit:
Being an effin rocket scientist,,, I just figured I can grab the big end with the 4 jaw chuck and do my work. But being a stubborn idiot the light went on too late and I'll wait for the 3-2 adapter. I mean I'm not spending the princely sum of $8 for nothing.
Double edit: Cartoon definitely not to scale.
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