Don Orr
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- Schenectady, NY
If the piece you are working on is longer than your lathe can accommodate? Why you line up your mini lathe and weight it down with an anvil. Add in a steady rest to manage some of the whip and there you have it. This is a ramming rod for the cannons on the Onrust and it is over 4 feet long. I had to turn down the shaft diameter to ¾” x 2” long and add a 1.5” diameter head about 3” long with a taper down to the shaft size. Worked reasonably well. The gun captain was very pleased with the results.