You migjt want to place a piece of wood over the ways when using a hacksaw hand held. It is possible for the blade to grab near the end of the cut and the blade can be jammed on the ways, etc. Not exactly the proper way to treat ways. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [SSLiveSteam] Lathe work (more tricks)
> Parting off is another area where problems show up. A pair of ways to do a > good parting. One feed in the parting tool about the width of the tool > bit, > withdraw and start a second part overlapping the first cut, go over and > over in > this stepwise manner until the parting is complete. Second way: grab your > hack saw and go to it with the lathe running slowly. First you must > decide if > the chunk of metal in the chuck or the piece you part off is to be the > piece > you keep. So keep the hacksaw or step parting cut to avoid the piece you > want > to keep then you can face off to final length. > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://postfix.45mm.com/pipermail/sslivesteam/attachments/20070106/80fa07e0/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > SSLiveSteam mailing list > Send messages: [email protected] > Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam > Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html > > _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
