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Ed, Oh ye of little filth... never mind, I'll go and clean shop tomorrow.

(10-08-2012, 06:38 PM)stevec Wrote: [ -> ]Ed, Oh ye of little filth... never mind, I'll go and clean shop tomorrow.

Good man!

Ed

Sorry Ed, but that pic is just lame. Here is what a chip pan should look like. It was literally clean enough to eat off of less than a month ago and now it's just starting to look normal.

Tom

(10-08-2012, 06:57 PM)TomG Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry Ed, but that pic is just lame. This is what a chip pan should look like. It was literally clean enough to eat off of less than a month ago and now it's finally starting to look normal.

Tom

Boy, I'm deeply ashamed of my feeble attempt at a dirty lathe. I've got a lot to learn about a home machine shop.

I think it's my bed time.

Ed

Ed my chip tray's look worse AFTER I clean them. If there's less than a 45 gallon barrel of swarf in there it isn't time to clean.

OK guys, enough. Lesson learned. Good night.

Ed

Simple solution Ed, go to a local machine shop and get a large bucket of chips. Next stop by at an auto shop and get a couple of quarts of sump oil thrown in for good measure. Once home apply the oily chips liberally to the chip pan and other common collecting places. Drizzle any remaining oil and wait a while for the runs to give it that aged look.

Take numerous pictures, being mindful of changing tools, chucks, centres, hand tools and any other items that may be in shot. Also change lighting conditions and camera angles. This will give you a folder of pictures of your lathe that will give the impression that they were taken over a period of time so you can slip them into future posts and avoid having people call you a neat freak, or assume you don't use it.

Once that is done you can roll up your sleeves and spend several hours cleaning it up again. Then several counselling sessions and life should be back to normal.

Ed that's some fine work you did on that spider!

Jerry.

(10-08-2012, 07:22 PM)Mayhem Wrote: [ -> ]Simple solution Ed, go to a local machine shop and get a large bucket of chips. Next stop by at an auto shop and get a couple of quarts of sump oil thrown in for good measure. Once home apply the oily chips liberally to the chip pan and other common collecting places. Drizzle any remaining oil and wait a while for the runs to give it that aged look.

Take numerous pictures, being mindful of changing tools, chucks, centres, hand tools and any other items that may be in shot. Also change lighting conditions and camera angles. This will give you a folder of pictures of your lathe that will give the impression that they were taken over a period of time so you can slip them into future posts and avoid having people call you a neat freak, or assume you don't use it.

Once that is done you can roll up your sleeves and spend several hours cleaning it up again. Then several counselling sessions and life should be back to normal.

Actually, I generated a ton of swarf while making the cat eye. I just kept cleaning up the mess directly below the chuck because of concerns of it getting grabbed by the spinning chuck. Next time I'll take a picture of the large nest of swarf to prove I do indeed use my lathe.

Ed

The chuck swinging a little swarf that grabs the stuff underneath is part of the fun of machining. Real fun is when the chip pan feeds the frenzie. I guess that's why bigger lathes have that switch lever on the lower right of the carriage.