Hi Bart, I can tell by your web site that you know this, but someone
might not. Used fractional hp motors are so easy to come by that to tie
up a lathe seems counter productive. Motors for washing machines,
furnace blowers, etc are often available for a gifted turning at a shop
or free at the curb. A Harbor Freight work arbor with washers and a
Jacob's chuck threaded to fit and you're set up.


I enjoyed your site and learned from it. Banjo bridges. Now that's a
speciality, you ought to add drumsticks and batons.


I'm musing several electron rings outside the nucleus, but I wonder if
the wave form & frequency transmitting characteristics of different
timbers and of different physical states of the same timber affect
turning characterisics. Could a variable frequency & waveform generator
and an O-scope tell us something useful about turning blanks that
personal experience, asking rcw and common sense doesn't? I doubt it,
but wondering on rcw is still tax free ...for now.


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter


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