Now you can start a business reworking the roller I have had for years.
John Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Lane
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 2:52 PM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Lathe/MicroMark roller [1 Attachment]
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I have long thought that most MicroMark tools are 80% of what they could be
if someone that knew how to actually use it would just think it through a
little more. All of my MicroMark tools have had some modification to them.
The roller bender was about the most annoying to me. If you were rolling a
tube once it closed you truly had to take the whole roller apart to get your
piece out. All they had to do was make a loose axle for the top center roller.
Slide the axle and roller out. That was easy.
But NO! The axle is firmly pressed in the roller. A friend that is a real
machinist instead of playing one like me made me a new roller with a loose
axle. But he somehow kept missing my point about wanting a knob at the end of
the roller axle.
So in a little "make work" project this morning I used my new lathe for the
first time to make a knob for the roller axle. The axle was almost the same
length as the whole thing is wide so I had to cheat it a bit. A little green
Zap A Gap and force fit of new knob to roller axle. I am good to go. The new
lathe is a lot more powerful than the Unimat lathe (which is still for sale -
price just reduced!). The tailstock is a little wonky. I just have to get used
to it all. I have to align the cutter tool so that is makes contact at the
center of the workpiece. All in due time..
Thank You,
Bill Lane
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