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Title: Gotta love working with lathe operators
Post by: Wazzzer on 07 December 2011, 17:27: Had an adaptor made up for me at work today, the one I had was made of three different parts (left hand side) and was too tall for under the inlet manifold, half hour after I was given the new one (right hand side)

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Title: Re: Gotta love working with lathe operators
Post by: benvictors on 07 December 2011, 17:41: Im a lathe operator :wink:
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Post by: Jay on 07 December 2011, 21:46: Nice one :afro: I was never that good on the lathe's at school and we usually ended up ruining each others projects :evil:
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Post by: VW BUSH on 07 December 2011, 22:33: what kit do you have? I used to run a toolroom with Mikrom VMC'c and Cincinnati lathes + Soddick EDM.
I really miss the workshop my cars always benefitted from it :sad:

New job is cool though, I am in Germany and Switzerland all next week playing nursey to yank from a global corp :cool:
Title: Re: Gotta love working with lathe operators
Post by: Wazzzer on 09 December 2011, 23:25: Dunno what we've got at work, I'll ask on Monday. All I know is they haven't got much on at the mo so little home jobs like this get done :laugh:
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Post by: spikenipple on 10 December 2011, 12:25: It's all about having access to lathes, I've already made up some pimp stainless lock buttons and little bits for my mk3 ^_^
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Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 10 December 2011, 12:52: You gotta love making 'homers' on the sly at work
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Post by: VW BUSH on 10 December 2011, 13:02: Quote from: veedubgti16v on 10 December 2011, 12:52
You gotta love making 'homers' on the sly at work

Taking 3mm cuts on fly wheel and passing it off as work takes skill :laugh:
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Post by: AlexMozza on 10 December 2011, 15:55: Love using lathes, Not very good at it yet!
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Post by: benvictors on 10 December 2011, 21:19: I run a Hyundai HiT28, a Mazak QT28 and a Mazak QT1, we got an ancient Capston manual lathe too which uses about a gallon of hydraulic oil evertime we use it but its still fun :laugh:
Made my wheel spacers at work, done a design for an alu gearknob which I might get done at some point if we weren't so fecking busy :rolleyes:
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Post by: jimbooboo on 10 December 2011, 23:17: Brass is such a nice material to cut on a lathe
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Post by: VW BUSH on 11 December 2011, 12:33: Quote from: benvictors on 10 December 2011, 21:19
I run a Hyundai HiT28, a Mazak QT28 and a Mazak QT1, we got an ancient Capston manual lathe too which uses about a gallon of hydraulic oil evertime we use it but its still fun :laugh:
Made my wheel spacers at work, done a design for an alu gearknob which I might get done at some point if we weren't so fecking busy :rolleyes:
Mazak's are good gear :cool:
Good to be busy with all the redundancey around in engineering :smiley:
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Post by: myvr6isarocket on 11 December 2011, 12:53: we have a pile of colchesters, but one really old bantam which is marked out in imperial but so smooth to use