16-09-2019, 11:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-09-2019, 11:42 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
Much of the art and intriguing challenge of lathework is accommodating such features when doing exact work.
Reminds me of an American story (possibly apocryphal), circa 1900, concerning a machine shop in an old, wooden-floored mill building. An apprentice would be given a job to perform on a lightly-built Seneca Falls lathe supported on cast-iron legs. The 20-stone foreman would deliberately lean on the tailstock-end of the lathe and inspect the boy's set-up procedure and then, satisfied all was well, walk away. Of course, when the callow youth turned the job, it was wildly out, the heavy foreman having distorted both the lathe bed and floor.
Reminds me of an American story (possibly apocryphal), circa 1900, concerning a machine shop in an old, wooden-floored mill building. An apprentice would be given a job to perform on a lightly-built Seneca Falls lathe supported on cast-iron legs. The 20-stone foreman would deliberately lean on the tailstock-end of the lathe and inspect the boy's set-up procedure and then, satisfied all was well, walk away. Of course, when the callow youth turned the job, it was wildly out, the heavy foreman having distorted both the lathe bed and floor.