Bob,
I got to Seventeen and a half cubitts- and their diameter was
Four.
HA had moved on to brass!
Prof Thom would have probably suggested actual measurements using the
planet Venus.
There you are, Michael!
All the clever stuff.
Norm
Of course,our dear Michael could actually buy a woodturning lathe. In
an earlier posting about Clarke and Chronos, Chronos is selling new
lathes for what cannot be more than a couple of tanks of petrol.
Do you think that we should tell him- or keep it secret? Or say, in
the Book of Chron(os)icles!!
N
Norm, I need a lathe that can turn a 4.5m x 0.6m piece of wood. If you can
find one of those that is 'cost effective' for a one off project then please
let me know.....
Michael
So, Michael, Science has discovered the--- Log!
Now if you had followed the reference to Hiram Abiff, the stuff was a
bloody sight
more solid and cast brass- and hollow and adorned with " network, lily
work and pomegranets" and a bloody big ball on each.
This was - I assume 4000 years ago and I just missed it by a tad.
Now in this day and age, all you need is two pointed ends of steel. to
support the log- and a long solid baulk of timber as a spacer.
With a matey or two, you mount the ends in grease and get stuck in with
a long chisel on a rest. Some comic wraps an endless rope around it and
drives it with a bike wheel.
All you are doing is is emulating what the old ship wrights did in the
past.
If you have read your history- and clearly you haven't- you will find
that ornamental turning lathes were constructed with two stocks- a head
and a tail in precisely that way. Again, if you have read George
Stephenson, Rocket's cylinders were so badly bored that the foreman's
felt hat had to be stuffed in.
The two most difficult parts in the job are to get someone daft enough
to bugger about with a bloody big log and the frictional inertia caused
by the inability to get back to the fundamentals of mechanics.
OK, go into Google and look up Bodgers Lathes. I don't have to, I
understood the principles before 1933!
Norm
Cost effective, is as little money as possible (under £400 ideally), I've
already got a whole workshop and so thought it would be easier to fabricate
something then go out and buy it. As I said before, I'll only need it for a
one project.....
No idea on the wood yet, thought I'd organise the lathe side of things
first. I guess you could get a rough idea if I was to tell you 4.5m x 0.6m,
made of, probably pine.....
Michael
So you've got a lathe! And I have been looking East for a miracle- and
missed it.
So what's stopping you? use the wrong end of the headstock- as the
headstock and whip the tailstock the arse way around using the lathe
back to front. It's only 60 or 2 feet in diameter- give or take a
midge's foreskin.
Wander around a cathedral- Good for the soul- and ponder just how the
masons made the pillars.
And young Michael, we are back to the Book of Kings.
Norman
I'd consider something made with chunky I-beam or RHS. Add automotive wheel
hubs - cheap, strong, big, boltable to primitive bracketry, and brake discs
are natural mounting flanges which neatly fit the bearings (holes through
the discs, with spikey bolts protruding into the wood?). Could do something
with a half-shaft to link up the motor. Unless you can weigh it down with
lots more weight than the wood you're turning, I'd be tempted to bolt it all
to the floor.
Well I have 2 actually! BUT, I'm still at school and the lathes are bolted
to the floor right next to other machinery etc so what you said just
wouldn't be an option.....
Looks like Wally has the best suggestion so far...
You guys are coming up with better suggestions than the woodworking
groups......
Michael.
Anyone who's ever actually stood and watched them knows that they don't.
They run down into the dips. That way, the weight from the following
carriages rolling down into a dip helps to push the leading carriages up the
other side. The engine can then pull the train over the bridge for very
little energy input. Were it the other way round, there would be a massive
waste of fuel as the loco undertook the initial task of climbing the first
hump to start the process off - doing it in the dips means that the lead
carriages start by dropping down and gathering momentum. Apparently, the
fuel burn can be as low as 20% of normal for the same speed. Makes the
passengers boak, though...
Cheers. :-)
Apparently, 'southern pine' weighs 590kg per cubic metre. That means your
bit of wood weighs about 1.5 tonnes. What are you planning to make out of
it?
Alvis are still making tanks in the old Vickers Factory in Scotswood-
just past the Robin Adair.
The Chain Bridge is gone but I could give you instructions. Blaydon
Races and that!
You'll need a tank to carry a suitable lathe!
Norm
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