Lathe / milling hobby?
Any info on lathes and milling projects operations etc.??
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thats a very expensive hobby
Well, to answer the graceful question, the swing over bed is the maximum diameter workpiece (or chuck, faceplate, etc) that can be mounted on the lathe without hitting the bed (frame) of the lathe. Usually the swing over the horse-drawn carriage is a more useful number since only short pieces can utilize the full swing over the bed.
For the the principal question, a search engine might be a flawless start. try, for example, "home shop machinist", this will get you a lot of links to http://www.homeshopmachinist.net/ which is a commercial magazine (which is pretty honourable, but I don;t like their multi part articles so much) but will also find like mad of pages that mention the magazine because the page is about hobby machining contained by one way or another.
A good place to start is to take home the various tools that you will need within future projects. A soft face tack hammer, a center punch, a square, scribe just to name a few. Although you can buy these items, and the ones you bring in might not be as good at first, it gives you time on the machines next to a practical use.
Swing is maximum radius that will rotate without striking the bed (or ways) of the machine. Source(s): Machinist 26 years
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Answers:
thats a very expensive hobby
Well, to answer the graceful question, the swing over bed is the maximum diameter workpiece (or chuck, faceplate, etc) that can be mounted on the lathe without hitting the bed (frame) of the lathe. Usually the swing over the horse-drawn carriage is a more useful number since only short pieces can utilize the full swing over the bed.
For the the principal question, a search engine might be a flawless start. try, for example, "home shop machinist", this will get you a lot of links to http://www.homeshopmachinist.net/ which is a commercial magazine (which is pretty honourable, but I don;t like their multi part articles so much) but will also find like mad of pages that mention the magazine because the page is about hobby machining contained by one way or another.
A good place to start is to take home the various tools that you will need within future projects. A soft face tack hammer, a center punch, a square, scribe just to name a few. Although you can buy these items, and the ones you bring in might not be as good at first, it gives you time on the machines next to a practical use.
Swing is maximum radius that will rotate without striking the bed (or ways) of the machine. Source(s): Machinist 26 years
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