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Mick,
Nice job on cleaning up that lathe. That looks to be a very nice lathe. You've a really nice mill also. Keep the pictures coming.
Ed
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Great work Mick! ... so much for the compliments.
Grrr! Now I have another site to cut into my shop time
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I did like the shot of the child labour thing.
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That is one hell of a job you did there Mick. I'm now having second thoughts about posting the clean up of my old lathe.
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Thanks for the comments lads, I will be getting back to the lathe this week and will post here direct too, as far as cutting into shop time all I can say is dont start watching Keith of Turn wright machine works ( KEF791 on youtube or your going to get NOTHING done
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Cheers Mick.
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Nice job on the lathe Mick. I like the addition of the door and shelves in the headstock. A lot of these old lathes had dead space like that and it was a good idea to make use of it. Harrison definitely makes a sturdy machine. We had a 14" or 15" in college that I used quite a bit.
I'll have to admit that I've been guilty of the child labor thing myself, but it didn't work out very well. I once paid my son a nickel a piece to clean the paper and cosmoline off a set of pin gauges. About half way through the job, the little b*****d threatened to strike if I didn't renegotiate the rate. I refused and he walked. There are still some gauges in the set in their original wrapping.
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I got even later on when he
volunteered to scrape undercoating off my Chevelle. It turned into a much bigger job than he thought and I held him to his word.
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Tom, some fathers ponder in their old age as to why their sons hated them. At least you'll know why.
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Just kidding.
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(09-05-2012, 06:55 AM)stevec Wrote: Tom, some fathers ponder in their old age as to why their sons hated them. At least you'll know why.![Bawling Bawling](http://www.metalworkingfun.com/images/smilies/bawling.gif)
Just kidding.![Rotfl Rotfl](http://www.metalworkingfun.com/images/smilies/rotfl.gif)
I'm pretty sure he's forgotten all about how horrible the job was now that he gets to "borrow the keys".
Tom