Top Tip When Using Buffing Wheels
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Woodmonkey
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Bet the neighbour got a shock, sunbathing in the garden and get hit on the side of the head with a wooden bowl!
jpt
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Everyone learns that the hard way at sometime, also when buffing keep any edge down so that the wheel passes it on the down stroke that way it wont catch.
Another tip if your lathe is near a window cover the window with a strong wire mesh screen.
john
Another tip if your lathe is near a window cover the window with a strong wire mesh screen.
john
Vic Perrin
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jpt":3tnl2oon said:
Wished I had of thought of that about 1/2 hour ago !
Vic wizard
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Which way is the buffing wheel running?
Vic Perrin
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wizard":3ks7x04g said:
Towards me or anticlockwise when looking at the Headstock from the Tailstock
Vic
wizard
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Needs to be running away from you
CHJ
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Disagree, makes it very difficult to see the edge contact area with most pieces.wizard":24yj45a4 said:
But the rotation direction discussion is a none starter if using the Chestnut system as It won't function in clockwise (reverse) rotation due to the standard 8mm fixing stud mountings. (other systems and mounting methods may differ)
wizard
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Try it and you will see the difference i now always have the wheel rotating away from me
Bodrighy
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If you are holding the piece at centre or just below as is usual, having the wheel running away from you is asking for an accident IMHO. As well as being hit if it happens. As Vic has found out, generally the piece will be pulled away from you and so not hit you unless you are using the top of the wheel which is definitely not advisable.
Pete
Pete
wizard
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i use the center to top of the wheel never lost anything this way
Dalboy
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OOOps is all I can say I was a little luckier than you as the window is to one side of me and the piece just bounced off the wall
Vic Perrin
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wizard":1dxy48oe said:
The Chestnut system would not operate in that mode as you would be unscrewing the wheel
Vic
Vic Perrin
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Good News I have replaced the window only cost £2 for a bit of glass. There is nothing wrong with the system I have polished loads of stuff with no problems. It boiled down to being my fault not taking due care as I normally do.
Lesson learnt !! ,
Vic
Lesson learnt !! ,
Vic
gregmcateer
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Vic,
Why were you polishing the windows with a buffing mop!?! :lol:
Glad no injuries, (except pride, maybe)
Greg
Why were you polishing the windows with a buffing mop!?! :lol:
Glad no injuries, (except pride, maybe)
Greg
Vic Perrin
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gregmcateer":bs76patu said:
Greg the irony about it all was that I only cleaned the bloody windows a couple of days ago
Vic
red dave
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Vic get rid of them pit glassesVic Perrin":1eq4thxg said:
Ha, exactly the same thing happened to me today (minus the glass) and I was holding it right i.e. below centre with the wheel running in the normal direction, a moments lack of concentration though and a fraction to little grip, Whamo! a weeks worth of effort went for a high speed trip around the worshop via every hard object it could find, broke one piece and well and truly scratched chipped and dented the rest.
I just went indoors. No turning for a day or so I think.
I just went indoors. No turning for a day or so I think.
Grahamshed
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He wasn't polishing the windows with a buffing mop, he was polishing them with flying bowls but it seems their three point turn was a bit off.
EnErY
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Cor Vic You sure had a smashing experience ................. :lol:
Bill
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