[TheForge] metal spinning

[Peter Hirst]

Expert at blood control at nine, and OSHA kicks you out seven years later? 
Your tax dollars at work . . .


Keziah
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
To: <artgawk at thegrid.net>; "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] metal spinning


> Left hand, yeah?
>
> I knew a lot of digitally challenged spinners.
>
> When you're doing production work you don't shut the lathe down between 
> parts. When you finish the or current step you open the tailstock and let 
> the part drop onto a chute that leads to a box behind the lathe if the 
> part is small enough, sometimes you have to remove it by hand. Still, 
> because the part is no longer a flat disk it behaves in a predictable and 
> reasonably controllable manner.
>
> Then the comes scary part, putting the fresh blank in the lathe. If the 
> part allows a center hole it's zero sweat as your die will have a center 
> pin sticking out and the live center of the tail stock will have a 
> receiver hole so there is no chance of the blank getting away from you.
>
> If the part doesn't allow a center hole, say a cooking pan or gold pan you 
> have to hold the blank between the thumb and pointer or whatever finger 
> you have left on your left hand, eyeballing center of the blank on the 
> center of the spinning die. You have a wooden stick tucked under your 
> right arm and resting on the tool rest with the working end almost 
> touching the edge of the blank. Next using your right hand you close the 
> tailstock on the blank.
>
> This is the moment of truth, if you're too far off center centrifugal 
> force will rip the blank out of the lathe and because you're holding it 
> between thumb and remaining finger that's where it'll hit first and 
> proceed up your arm like a jagged meat slicer.
>
> If you've eyed it well enough friction between the tailstock and die will 
> hold the blank in place long enough for you to center it with the 
> centering stick. You apply gentle pressure with the stick on the edge of 
> the spinning blank while simultaneously allowing a LITTLE slippage from 
> the tailstock. Sometimes a beginner will lose control of the blank during 
> this process but hands or the remains there of shouldn't be in the way so 
> blood is rarely shed at this stage.
>
> I was really good at stopping bleeding by time I was 9, major bleeding at 
> that.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
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> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>
>
> From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>
>
>> My father once, any years ago, introduced me to "the best spinner I 
>> know". The guy had a thumb and 2 fingers....total.
>>
>
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