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President

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These are the handouts for the February 2007 demonstration by Rich Alderfer. Hard copies will be available at the demo, but for those that aren't able to attend, Rich wanted to make sure a copy was available. They are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format.

• Talk on Rolling Pins

This is the technique I used, modified from Ron Kent and other Hawaiian Turners.

Mix equal amounts of:

• Boiled linseed oil
• Mineral Spirits
• Polyurethane (satin or high gloss, whatever)

1. Turn the thin bowl (1/8" or so) and finish sand to 320 grit.
2. Submerge the bowl in the urethane/linseed/spirits mixture overnight. (I used a pint jar filled with water as a weight to keep the bowl under the mixture).
3. The next morning, remove the bowl from the mixture and allow it to drain and dry (upside down) all day.
4. At bedtime, place the bowl back into the mixture again.

This explains how to construct a duplicate of my shop built rotary vacuum adapter for using vacuum chucks on a lathe. Nearly everything is from the shelves at Lowe’s. The rod connecting the chuck and the rotary adapter is lamp rod, 30” long 1/8-ip threaded steel pipe, Angelo brand, part number 70270. Cut it to suitable length for your situation after finishing construction.

The rod screws into a brass fitting which is super glued into the ¾” thick MDF in each chuck. A suitable piece of hard wood could be substituted for the MDF. I have used Brass Reducer Bushings and lamp rod couplings for the threaded insert in a chuck body. Both seem to work well. The bushings will give an absolute air tight seal on the lamp rod but require a 3/8 pipe tap to install. They are located in the drawers of brass fittings in the plumbing aisle, and are part number A-776, 3/8-mip x 1/8-fip. You may find it easier to glue in a coupling from the electrical aisle. The part is Angelo brand, 70162 Coupling 1/8-ip thread. They will be in blister packs hanging near the lamp rod and there are two in a pack. Use thick super glue to bond it in a ½” diameter hole.

A few weeks ago, someone asked about getting large turning blank logs into the back of their pick-um-up truck. They had injured their back and wanted possible solutions which would bypass the pain and still get the wood to the shop. Below are pictures of my solution to this same problem. The crane is a swiveling type from Harbor Freight which is marketed to be mounted in the bed of your truck. I didn’t want it to be a permanent passenger, so I devised this hitch receiver based system to make it both easily portable and quickly removable. It will look a lot better with a coat of gloss black Rustoleum paint covering all of the rusty metal. The two trailer jacks are rated for 800 pounds each and are from H.F. also. The steel tubing is 2”x2” x 3/16” wall thickness. My total cash outlay was less than $130.

(I found this on woodcentral's forums, posted by our own Al Crandall, so I took the liberty of creating an article here to keep it for posterity. Al, please update/expand on this as you see fit. James)

This is a shop made hollowing system with a laser guide which I designed and built for my Jet mini lathe. It is being tested by an unidentified club member at our all day turn-a-thon last month. It is constructed from 1/2" black water pipe, a couple of galvanized 1/4" pipe nipples, some nuts and bolts, and some scrap 1/2" baltic birch plywood. The assembly has a rib supported plywood bed extension bolted to the end of the lathe upon which rides a pivoting plywood plate. This plate supports the two bars which constrain the boring bar extension and its outrigger. The boring bar is a 5/8 x 10" long hex head bolt from the shelves at Lowe's and is screwed 2" into the end of the black pipe and further held by a nut welded to the top of the pipe with a 1/4-20 set screw for a grub. The working end has holes at 0 and 45 degrees for the insertion of a 3/16 square tool bit and a 1/4-20 set screw at the intersection of these two holes holds the bit in place.