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[wierdscience]

Looks like a movie set from Austin Powers...

[wierdscience]

I get some time this weekend I'll dig out a roll and see if I can work out some settings.

[wierdscience]

Yes you can Mig braze cast iron, it's fairly a common way to join cast iron embellishments to mild steel (think post and picket tops on ornamental iron...

[wierdscience]

In my experience the area of the chuck body that serves as the scroll bearing is what wears the most. The scroll and the jaws are hardened steel, the...

[wierdscience]

No need to apologize, it's all in good fun....

[wierdscience]

Careful now, don't fall off of that high horse.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ing+chuck+jaws

It's been beat to death...

[wierdscience]

I've got a 4" one on my 9x20 that I use regularly for sqaure stock, it's worth it just for that reason. It saves a good bit of time over having to...

[wierdscience]

To me this sounds like an excuse to buy one of those hydraulic scissor lift tables which can be used for other activities once the lathe move is comp...

[wierdscience]

+1 for checking the back lash between the power feed pinion and table bevel gear. Many times I have found them too tight because the person who installed...

[wierdscience]

All three will be in contact, the ring won't run true, but it doesn't have to, it's only there to remove lash....

[wierdscience]

Sorry to hear this old friend, will be praying for you and Bronnen.

[wierdscience]

I don't think it will be anywhere near that extreme, like I said, I can send you a few to try, costs you nothing....

[wierdscience]

Not mocking, just pointing out he's doing it totally wrong....

[wierdscience]

Most scroll jaws the scroll teeth extend past the clamping surface and are by nature below the clamping surface.The lash ring can be placed in between...

[wierdscience]

It's more a lack of knowledge/skill. A 1/4" long ring of that pipe he was using, clamped in back of the jaw teeth would have been sufficient to take...

[wierdscience]

The screw isn't in the center. It's designed with a tapered head that mates to a tapered socket in the insert. The screw is very slightly off center,...

[wierdscience]

OMFG shakes head and walks away.....😑

[wierdscience]

I had the same basic bar in 1", originally the bar was intended for production boring cast Aluminum bores. The CDGT-32.52 inserts they used were...

[wierdscience]

Stability is the main one and I guess personal satisfaction is another.

I've been wanting a 12 or 18" Camelback straight edge casting...

[wierdscience]

Smaller Brass, larger Aluminum, it's hit and miss and also depends on ship and cut charges. Coremark will chop a 12' stick in half for free and ship it...