Lathe Stand Legs
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Step away from the screw threads, sir.
However, you might want to model a #2 Morse taper in the headstock and tailstock, and add a handwheel to advance the tailstock.
I like the idea of adding a belt and wheel over the lathe.FWIW,there used to be an amazing woodturning shop in Philadelphia's Old Town: The John Grass woodturning studio. The Center for Art in Wood, which promotes woodturning and sculpture, tried mightily to save the studio but was ultimately unsuccessful. John Grass was the oldest woodturning shop in Philly, dating to the mid-19th century. Among many other things, John Grass turned all the billyclubs that the Philadelphia P.D. used. The turning studio had two floors of machinery--planers, jointers, saws, and woodturning stations. These were long benches with a headstock and a tailstock bolted to the benchtop at various intervals. Everything in the shop was belt-driven, powererd by a 5-hp motor in the basement. The motor made a fearsome racket when it was turned on, and the belts also put out quite a noise as they spun and slapped. All of this is to say that parts of the lathe that Dave R. has so beautifully modeled might have been used in one of those wodturning stations.
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@davidheim1 said:
However, you might want to model a #2 Morse taper in the headstock and tailstock...
The #2 Morse tapers are in there already. I added those when I drew the parts that have them.
@davidheim1 said:
...and add a handwheel to advance the tailstock.
Hand wheels are next. There's one for the tail stock and another under the bed on the bolt for the tool rest.
@davidheim1 said:
I like the idea of adding a belt and wheel over the lathe.
I'm thinking about modeling only half the belt and maybe omitting the wheel up above.
@davidheim1 said:
FWIW,there used to be an amazing woodturning shop in Philadelphia's Old Town: The John Grass woodturning studio. The Center for Art in Wood, which promotes woodturning and sculpture, tried mightily to save the studio but was ultimately unsuccessful. John Grass was the oldest woodturning shop in Philly, dating to the mid-19th century. Among many other things, John Grass turned all the billyclubs that the Philadelphia P.D. used. The turning studio had two floors of machinery--planers, jointers, saws, and woodturning stations. These were long benches with a headstock and a tailstock bolted to the benchtop at various intervals. Everything in the shop was belt-driven, powererd by a 5-hp motor in the basement. The motor made a fearsome racket when it was turned on, and the belts also put out quite a noise as they spun and slapped. All of this is to say that parts of the lathe that Dave R. has so beautifully modeled might have been used in one of those wodturning stations.
That would be interesting to see. I've been to the Hadley Museum and in the machine shop there. I'm hoping to visit a steam powered machine shop in south central NY this summer.
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My memory failed me in a couple of details about the John Grass woodturning company (not woodturning studio). It used a 7.5 hp motor, not a 5-hp, and the motor replaced a steam engine.
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I expect since electric motors got smaller and more affordable, shop safety increased. I have my father's 1932 Walker Turner benchtop drill press. It was originally intended to be run off a line shaft that was mounted parallel to the long dimension of the bench. One motor underneath and tools arrayed along the length of the bench with belts going to pulleys on the shaft. The drill press could also mount the motor on the base. Fortunately my father reworked the DP so it has its own motor mounted upon the back so it has a reasonable belt arrangement.
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A tiny bit of progress.
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Rookie mistake, look at all those reversed faces.
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That's the model for 3D printing the room air.
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Silly me, of course it is! It's the Michelangelo version, following his ability to see the parts of the marble that didn't belong, you've modeled out the bits that shouldn't be there. So we are seeing the inside skin of the surrounding nothingness. Genius.
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Outstanding progress
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