Lathe mandrels

[Al Smith]

The first picture of a mandrel I ever saw was made of walnut .Sounds crazy perhaps but it must work .Good old grumpy D. Cahoon had it .He said it ran true .
Copesy used steel round stock as have others .I can't say I'd be a fan of it but some of those guys have cut down a lot of cylinders using that method .
Unfortunately I can't find the picture of the nylon over steel mandrel I have .It must be on the hard drive of my crashed computer because its not on the 4TB Blackwater backup remote I have nor is it on this computer .

 

[Yukon Stihl]

Is steel no good?
I just got myself a 9" lathe and can get plenty of steel round stock.

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That looks like the lathe in my dads shop.

 

[Stump Shot]

Is steel no good?
I just got myself a 9" lathe and can get plenty of steel round stock.

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Nice lathe!

 

[Stump Shot]

The price of buying it with the dro or adding it later was pretty much a wash.

From what I understand Grizzly doesn't offer it as an upgrade kit though. There's a few things that are machined differently for the dro lathes I guess.

There's plenty of options out there to add it to any machine but it's just one less headache to buy one already set up.

Original DRO, direct read out. Lol

 

[Dub11]

Pretty common for them to smooth out the castings with bondo before painting. Sometimes they lay it in pretty thick.

That what I was told too. We have a 1967 South Bend Turnado. That baby is solid and true. Well at least for what we use it for.

 

[beaglebriar]

Original DRO, direct read out. Lol

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I still use the dials a lot at work, cutting keyways and whatnot.

 

[Termitebuffet]

I still use the dials a lot at work, cutting keyways and whatnot.

How tight of spec on the whatnots ?

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[beaglebriar]

How tight of spec on the whatnots ?

Sawhawgz, ruining the internet since 2012...

Plus or minus a nut hair..

 

[Termitebuffet]

Plus or minus a nut hair..

Lol...how's it going..

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[beaglebriar]

Lol...how's it going..

Sawhawgz, ruining the internet since 2012...

Been out in the shed boiling sap all day... pretty much over it.

That big ol' J red looks stout. How's things down south?

 

[Termitebuffet]

Been out in the shed boiling sap all day... pretty much over it.

That big ol' J red looks stout. How's things down south?

Doing good been busy....it took me a bit to find that last bit of snap in that saw .....just loaded a ms361 video too ...that little dude be rolling , still kinda fat in video

Sawhawgz, ruining the internet since 2012...

 

[p61 western]

That what I was told too. We have a 1967 South Bend Turnado. That baby is solid and true. Well at least for who it's for.

fixed lol