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Lathe Modelling

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FTER building the small model mak-

A er's lathe, previously described, you

will need tools and equipment. The first


essential is the cutting bit. For a generaluse tool, it is best to have a clearance angle of lo0,a back slope of 5" and side slope
of 10". Experience will teach just how
much to vary these for different kinds of
work. Material for these bits can be purchased in the form of high-speed steel bars,
already hardened and ready to grind,
from supply houses handling jewelersy
equipment. The rough bit for the lathe
described should be l/a in. square and about
1in. long. Of course, boring tools will have
to be longer to suit each case.
Next in importance, from the standpoint
of frequent use, is a small drill chuck for
the tailstock. This will be used whenever
holes are drilled in a piece held in the
headstock chuck. Any type chuck of
%-in. capacity will suffice. Only enough
of the inside threaded shaft is required to
cover the full range of chuck adjustments,
and a small taper shank is turned up and
pressed into a hole drilled in the chuck.
The taper must fit the'hole in the spindle.
The faceplate is another part used frequently. This is best made in two pieces.
The hub can be made from a nut, or from
a similar piece, a hole being threaded to

fit the shaft. The plate is laid out for the


holes, and these are drilled and tapped before being mounted on the hub. Although
the illustration shows the use of screws in

mounting, pressing, riveting or soldering


are equally good. True up the plate by
facing and turning the diameter.
Centers are made from drill rod hardened after turning. They are polished with
fine emery cloth after hardening. Two
sizes are shown, together with an adapter,
to make the small ones fit the large taper.
The larger fit the spindles, and the lesser
ones are used in the small driving plates
and centers. At this time a taper hole is
drilled and reamed in the headstock spindle, as you now have the tailstock chuck
to hold the drill and reamer for this operation. This hole is identical with that in
the tailstock, so that all tapers will be interchangeable.

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driving plate and dog are used when


diameters are turned between cen. It is well to have more than one size,
suit your own conditions. The smaller
size fits in the tapered hole, while the
larger is screwed on like the faceplate.
Arbors are used in innumerable ways, and
for this reason it is advisable to have quite
a range of sizes. They make good mountings for saws, small emery wheels and cutters, and may be used to hold small pieces

for turning when these have a concentric


hole in them. Collars or spacers are included with each arbor to accommodate
varying thicknesses to be held on them.
Light milling or slotting can b
the saws and cutters by clampi
to the slide-rest top, with the
moved; a few tapered holes
top will aid in clamping. T
makes a fine drillpress if provided with a
plate having a taper shank. Make the plate
of brass and solder the shank in. Face it
true, and you will have a good surface to
drill against. You are now equipped to do
all kinds of ordinary metal-turning jobs of
small size, and in special cases extra ac- cessories can be made to suit.

-- This Simple Jig for Cutdng Tenons Fits Any Circular Saw

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Here's a jig for safely cutting tenons on


your circular saw. It consists of three
blocks; one is 'the base and the other two
are fastened together at right angles as in-.
dicated. The underside of the base is slotted for an oak runner, which slides in the
miter-gauge groove of the saw table. The
upper surface of the base and the lower
surface of the horizontal block that fits on
the base, are each grooved at right angles
to the f i s t groove, to fit a runner which
permits lateral adjustment. The horizontal
block is fastened to the base with bolts
which slide in slots to permit adjusting the
jig for cuttiig tenons of different thicknesses. A C-clamp will hold the work.

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