[TheForge] OT, but I Just have to ask...

[Mike Linn]

There are several cannon lathes about 4 miles from me at Tannehill State Park.

They are really cool machines.


At 05:30 PM 1/12/2005, you wrote:


>Justin Fellenz wrote:
>
>>But the cannon. Now, that's a cool idea. Anyone tried making one? A big
>>one, I mean? My lathe bed is, oh, 9 feet long and I can spin about 14".
>>I wonder if the bed would flx under the weight...I guess you'd have to
>>rig up some rollers to carry it. And how would you bore something that
>>long? Get it close with a long (flexy) boring bar and then clean it up
>>with a button?
>
>         I think you really need a gun drill to do the job 
> right.  Drilling deep holes is not an easy thing to do, if you want the 
> hole to be straight, that is. :)
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