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This is my circa 1947 Model 111 12"x36" belt-drive Clausing metal lathe! I was fortunate enough to pick this up from a local salvage outfit. The story goes that the old fellow that he got it from, used it for making underwater photography light holders. These consisted of a series of aluminum bulbs strung together with a small cable like pearls. When the light was positioned properly, a cam on one end of the cable locked it into position. |
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This is my gundrill driver setup. After some research, I decided to go with Hypertool gundrills. I designed a few modifications to their standard 1" driver so I could attach compressed air for chip clearing and screw on a #2 Morse taper adapter. The taper holds the drill in the tail stock of the lathe. |
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The business end of the drill is shown below and to the left. In section, it looks like a circle with a quadrant cut away. The end has a spiral ramp ground in it to shear the bottom of the hole. There is a small hole drilled just behind the cutting edge that leads to a coolant passage inside the shaft of the drill for chip clearing.
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This is my little wood lathe. It was my grandfather's. I use it mostly for sanding and finishing operations in pipemaking. It spins much faster than the metal lathe. Because the dust is very bad to breathe, I fitted an attic fan into the window frame that exhausts under the front porch. |
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Here is one of the x-rays oncologist Dr. Jack Hutcheson Jr. from Piper-L made for me of his circa 1920's Henderson pipes. These were invaluable to me in this project. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. These s-rays are no exception. The circle above the bass drone top section is a quarter. I used it to calculate the distortion in the x-rays. It turned out to be 105.0%. |
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