Stuart Ablett
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.........or total bonehead ideas........
I just wanted to document a few things that I've been doing to try to make my work more efficient around the Dungeon, getting a bunch of turnings done just before Christmas highlighted several things that were not set up well, that I was wasting precious turning time on
First, I gave up on my Lazy-Susan tool storage, biggest reason was it was a waste of space, and I spent more time spinning it around looking for tools that it was worth, so I used some wall space (precious little of it I have open) and built a new rack for the lathe tools, I tired my best to put the ones I use the most at hand, and the ones seldom used at the back of the rack, I also made a smaller rack for the smaller tools, and left room to expand there too. This has really helped out with keeping the tools in some kind of order.
Next up is the safety drives.
I have the Oneway safety drive, a great unit, but I got this longer one from Jean-Francois Escoulen when he was here, one less pointy metal thing he had to take back through airport security. It is from a metal working lathe, and he cut the cut drive with a parting tool himself, it works REALLY well, but it has a couple of other advantages; one, it puts the work further out from the headstock, which being right handed gives me more room to work, secondly, it is long enough I can us it with the chuck in place.........
You can see the Oneway unit is kind of short......
.... here you can see the longer drive, this really saves time when doing a bunch of things like ornaments, I'm not removing and replacing the chuck all the time. Works great!
Next up is sandpaper.......oh how exciting......
I really like this 3M stuff, it comes with a Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) on it, rolled up in this dispenser thing.........
I mark each one, so I can figure it out in a hurry.......
.......dispense a piece.......
......tear it off.......
.......and fold it in two, it sticks to itself.
I then mark it, as they look similar enough to cause troubles.
The larger size I can get from #100 to #240........... cont......
I just wanted to document a few things that I've been doing to try to make my work more efficient around the Dungeon, getting a bunch of turnings done just before Christmas highlighted several things that were not set up well, that I was wasting precious turning time on
First, I gave up on my Lazy-Susan tool storage, biggest reason was it was a waste of space, and I spent more time spinning it around looking for tools that it was worth, so I used some wall space (precious little of it I have open) and built a new rack for the lathe tools, I tired my best to put the ones I use the most at hand, and the ones seldom used at the back of the rack, I also made a smaller rack for the smaller tools, and left room to expand there too. This has really helped out with keeping the tools in some kind of order.
Next up is the safety drives.
I have the Oneway safety drive, a great unit, but I got this longer one from Jean-Francois Escoulen when he was here, one less pointy metal thing he had to take back through airport security. It is from a metal working lathe, and he cut the cut drive with a parting tool himself, it works REALLY well, but it has a couple of other advantages; one, it puts the work further out from the headstock, which being right handed gives me more room to work, secondly, it is long enough I can us it with the chuck in place.........
You can see the Oneway unit is kind of short......
.... here you can see the longer drive, this really saves time when doing a bunch of things like ornaments, I'm not removing and replacing the chuck all the time. Works great!
Next up is sandpaper.......oh how exciting......
I really like this 3M stuff, it comes with a Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) on it, rolled up in this dispenser thing.........
I mark each one, so I can figure it out in a hurry.......
.......dispense a piece.......
......tear it off.......
.......and fold it in two, it sticks to itself.
I then mark it, as they look similar enough to cause troubles.
The larger size I can get from #100 to #240........... cont......