Re: Lathe update/questions

The Davenport's wrote:
People also flew around the world in Ford Trimotors for a long time.
I'm not advocating that, though I wouldn't mind flying a Trimotor once.


Bill...an inexpensive DRO will allow you to work faster, far more
accurately and do a number of operations that would take you hours to
do, in just a few minutes
Faster, sure, no question. More accurate? I might want to debate that one.
Time to turn into the ass I was trying to avoid being...

YES more accurate. Unless you do this for a living or have done if for a hobby for longer than a week and a half, you don't have a lot of room to be throwing statements like that around
A couple of decades as an engineer gives me some room. And in fact, I do now actually earn a portion of my living doing this stuff. That is part of why I shelled out the bucks for a lathe, to enhance my capabilities.

Being an engineer is not the same as making the chips.

No, but I do both. Granted I am much more of an engineer than a machinist.






However, it also could easily become a crutch. Had I not mastered
scales and dials and built muscle memory to keep backlash from nailing me, I would have been hosed trying to use an RT. I look forward to bragging about the work in question, but I can't do it yet. Titanium space station parts it's not, but I am convinced I am right about practicing the basics.


They also work very well on lathes
I cannot yet comment from experience, but the compound looks awfully handy to remain locked. Just a thought from a newbie.
Keep that thought in mind...the newbie part, that is
On a lathe yes, NOT on a mill - sorry to disappoint you.

I'm not disappointed, YOU said that you are a newbie on a lathe...MY comment was to your comments regarding using a lathe

That's because I am a newbie on a lathe. But when it comes to other aspects of machining, I cease to be newbie.

What you seem to find annoying is a combination of thinking through a complex decision and a considered disagreements about machining in general that arose along the way.



I've got around 40 years doing this stuff...from things I've read from Gunner and DoN, they each have at least that much or more time in this. AND this what we do for a living...so between the three of us, we're talking about 120 years or so of collective experiance.
If I did not respect your opinions, I would not have sought them in this recent screwup with the lathe. However, I am not a complete machine shop green horn, and I am a very experienced engineer. I will from time to time disagree with you, and would hope you would be man enough to debate vs. reduce yourself to name calling.

And just where did I reduce myself to name calling? Well, other than refering to myself, that is.

"keep that in mind, the newbie part that is". "but you barely have the questions". If I look around, I will find a crack about "a week and a half" or something. Sounds like name calling to me.

Bill

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