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Originally Posted by jenchris
Slap plenty of kero on it as you machine it and it seems not to foul the tool.
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Yeah I use a 50/50 mix of kero and parrafin oil. Hate the smell tho.
I had meant to try artificially aging my castings, but never got around to it. Haven't made a casting in almost a decade! Still have the furnace tho.
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I always wondered why they didn't make right handed lathes ( chuck on the right) much easier to make shouldered threads in that direction
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Never really thought about it. I have a cheap chinese hobby lathe (all I could afford years ago, they are now half the price I paid
) which has a DC motor and is reversable at the flick of a switch, very handy.