Request for service - lathe related.

[Rickabilly]

Believe it or not, it is quite common for larger prismatic slides to have wipers made out of little pieces of these straight wipers cut and mitred to suit, I have done it once on a really big lathe 40" swing 12 feet BC and that was bad enough, but have seen it done on a Colchester Mascot 1600 just like mine, which would have been really nasty to do, that is exactly why I use felt, it does almost the same thing and is about 5% of the effort of trying to make them out of straight wiper material, on top of that the felt wipers are adjustable and really easy to replace when they either get really dirty or damaged.

Regards
Rick