All Torque
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Registered: 17th Nov 05
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These are pretty simple but impressive:
Sharpen a pencil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKL6elkbFy0
Create a chess piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghF7njMgZgs&feature=related  
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Used to hate using lathes at school, too much and fuck start again! 
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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now that is shit hot!
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morpheus22
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Registered: 10th Oct 05
Location: sheffield
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the pencil one 
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmiIeAkE-o&feature=related
gets quite cool if you have 11 mins to spare
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Gareth F
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Registered: 16th Jan 08
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I was making a few chair legs at a friends work using skills from my carpentry and joinery course at college, the boss didnt find the penis chair leg funny
Just wish i didnt break my old phone which held the pictures.
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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Got those at college I used one when making up some bench/G clamps.
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richc
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Registered: 24th Mar 07
Location: Ilkeston
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I aint used a lathe in a few years i tell theee
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Writing g-code sucks
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sam-smith
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Registered: 8th Jan 07
Location: plymouth, UK
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its more satifying without the CNC imo. lathes get boring after watching them for ages in finishing vcuts etc
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sxibeast
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Registered: 6th Aug 03
Location: Milton Keynes
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the only thing i dont like about them is parting off.....went abit too deep and fast with one once in a pice of ally, caught, snapped it clean off, then shot it up to the ceiling of the workshop
[Edited on 10-03-2009 by sxibeast]
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mattk
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quote:
Originally posted by sxibeast
went abit too deep and fast with one once in a ally, caught, snapped it clean off, then shot it up to the ceiling
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sxibeast
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i know! luckily there was a guard where my face was! :l
Though not as bad as one of the apprentices' i was learning with when they switched on the mill with the spanner still on the nut!
Big spanner went flying across a very busy college workshop missing two of the guys heads by millimeters!
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jezza
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quote:
Originally posted by mattk
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Originally posted by sxibeast
went abit too deep and fast with one once in a ally, caught, snapped it clean off, then shot it up to the ceiling
hahaha
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Ellis
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Registered: 11th Sep 07
Location: Aberdeenshire
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Originally posted by richc
I aint used a lathe in a few years i tell theee
Same, I used to love turning at college, aaah the days
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richc
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Registered: 24th Mar 07
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quote:
Originally posted by sxibeast
i know! luckily there was a guard where my face was! :l
Though not as bad as one of the apprentices' i was learning with when they switched on the mill with the spanner still on the nut!
Big spanner went flying across a very busy college workshop missing two of the guys heads by millimeters!
People who have never seen this wont find it funny. I have seen people cleary 30 metres in like a 1 sec flat doing this!
Ive done it before but in revers so the spanner hit the motor and just tightend the draw bar up!
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mazdaspeed
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Registered: 8th Jan 05
Location: Darlington
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quote:
Originally posted by richc
quote:
Originally posted by sxibeast
i know! luckily there was a guard where my face was! :l
Though not as bad as one of the apprentices' i was learning with when they switched on the mill with the spanner still on the nut!
Big spanner went flying across a very busy college workshop missing two of the guys heads by millimeters!
People who have never seen this wont find it funny. I have seen people cleary 30 metres in like a 1 sec flat doing this!
Ive done it before but in revers so the spanner hit the motor and just tightend the draw bar up!
You do it once then never again
We were taught to roll our sleeves up in case they caught on the cutters, heard nasty stories about this happening. These days they have big guards with electrical cut offs, not like years ago.
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Corsa Sport Gav
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Registered: 12th Feb 03
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we have lathes at work, good machines too.
prefer my CNC laser though 
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sxibeast
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Registered: 6th Aug 03
Location: Milton Keynes
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quote:
Originally posted by mazdaspeed
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Originally posted by richc
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Originally posted by sxibeast
i know! luckily there was a guard where my face was! :l
Though not as bad as one of the apprentices' i was learning with when they switched on the mill with the spanner still on the nut!
Big spanner went flying across a very busy college workshop missing two of the guys heads by millimeters!
People who have never seen this wont find it funny. I have seen people cleary 30 metres in like a 1 sec flat doing this!
Ive done it before but in revers so the spanner hit the motor and just tightend the draw bar up!
You do it once then never again
We were taught to roll our sleeves up in case they caught on the cutters, heard nasty stories about this happening. These days they have big guards with electrical cut offs, not like years ago.
A guy at work switched off his mill, but didnt hit the brake/let it come to a stop and put his hand in to get his work....cut up all one side of his hand lots of blood from what i hear and one hell of a scar!
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oceansoul
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
Location: Sunbury, Surrey
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used to use lathes/mills at college. We had one guy not roll up his sleve, and he put his arm in to adjust the coolant.....cutter caught his sleeve and gashed up his arm. Luckly he managed wo wack the e stop tho
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