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Posted by Steve on February 5, 2008, 2:22 pm
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> Many thanks for all you comments / suggestions. I will treat them with
> the contempt that they so richly deserve.
> I have no idea what happened, but I cannot post 14 times in 1
> minute...PC error mayhap? Cannot remove them though
> Anyway now to my original question
>
> This may sound a bit of a numb question,but....
> I have just received another box of bits to go with the Viceroy I was
> given last year. Includes chucks, dial gauges, tooling, grease guns
> etc. {more boxes come to light the deeper the shed is explored!!}.
> Anyway, one of the items is a Tailstock die holder. Takes 2 sizes of
> die [boxes of dies as well, he he he ] Question, this is where it may
> sound numb, do I use the lathe in back gear at slowest speed? do I
> hold the side handle or let it rest against the bed? Just seems to me
> that there may be 'quite a lot of torque' when lathe is running if I
> have got hold of the side arm!
>
> Many thanks
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> Hmmm. that reminds me, who sells LH metric dies? I need a new M8x1.25LH,
> as mine is more split than it's supposed to be. I may say that I didn't
> break it.
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