Wow, over two years since I last updated, but a productive hiatus none the less with retirement, shop revovation, and new house taking up a lot of time. But it now time to make some swarf 1again and get this one finished up.
One of the main issues was machining the flywheels. I tried this on the sherline with risers, but was never pleased with the results. Photo 1 shows some of the chatter due to lack of rigidity. Not an issue in the larger lathe, now back in service (photo 2), with much better results (photo 3). So this is where things stand currently (photo 4), pretty much everything is done except finishing this flywheel and doing the second one, then a disassembly and good clean-up, painting, reassembly,and seeing if I can make it run. Nice to be making chips again and I promise updates will be forthcoming more rapidly.
Bill