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Offline steamer

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #45 on: April 01, 2017, 09:18:45 PM »
Progress made...on a couple of fronts....here's where the Scroll saw attachment is at the moment.

waiting for the table material

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #46 on: April 01, 2017, 10:14:14 PM »
I'm really enjoying this.
I've sometimes thought about a scroll saw but was hesitant to buy, find a place for it, and then barely use it.
Building one driven by the lathe is excellent. The filer is another one.
I mean, why wouldn't you?

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #47 on: April 01, 2017, 10:16:57 PM »
I'm really enjoying this.
I've sometimes thought about a scroll saw but was hesitant to buy, find a place for it, and then barely use it.
Building one driven by the lathe is excellent. The filer is another one.
I mean, why wouldn't you?

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Well, depends what you are going to use it for. My scroll saw gets used for woodwork, dont really want all that wood dust mixed in on the oily lathe. If used mainly for sheet metal and the like, sounds like a good way to go if it is easily put on/off the lathe.

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #48 on: April 01, 2017, 10:28:46 PM »
Actually reminds me of something I was told long long ago. I think I'd even asked on the (probably prior) forum but never got an answer.

I used to work for a company that used CNC machines to make robots for education and industrial training.
I had no interaction with them but was close to the owner who did the programming for them.

He once said he would never carve wood on a metal machine for fear that wood chips would get in crevices, get oiled, expand, and ruin calibration.

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #49 on: April 01, 2017, 10:46:24 PM »
Crueby

Mostly metal is what I'll be using it for.   Occasional thin plywood....but I can cover the lathe for that

Chips getting the ways would be problematic...and after all the work I did on Samantha...I'll make sure to take good care of her.

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #50 on: April 01, 2017, 10:50:11 PM »
I'm really enjoying this.
I've sometimes thought about a scroll saw but was hesitant to buy, find a place for it, and then barely use it.
Building one driven by the lathe is excellent. The filer is another one.
I mean, why wouldn't you?

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A 1/16 brass plate that needs some windows and irregularly shaped holes     Two ways to do it  Take the vise off the mill, Clamp the stock to a piece of plywood or aluminum and mill it on the mill, or use a scroll saw   With THIS saw it will be faster than the mill, unless it's ridiculously simple.
Thinner stock favors the saw even more....piercing saw blades work great!....and I can cut inside acute angles with the saw

Of course, there is always my trusty piercing saw.....and some patience.
Dave
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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #51 on: April 08, 2017, 05:07:09 AM »
The stock for the table came today.   It won't need much just a facing both sides, and bored hole for a zero clearance insert.

Racing this weekend....but more to come...

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #52 on: April 08, 2017, 03:55:25 PM »
Dave, in post #20, what is the piece that looks like a home made "chicken stick" [plastic rod on the end of a wooden dowel]? Is it even part of the saw to be?
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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #53 on: April 08, 2017, 07:00:10 PM »
Dave, in post #20, what is the piece that looks like a home made "chicken stick" [plastic rod on the end of a wooden dowel]? Is it even part of the saw to be?
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No...it's a tool used to put new tires on bandsaw wheels.   I had just finished doing that and it was on the bench

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Re: Scroll saw attachment for a lathe
« Reply #54 on: April 08, 2017, 10:44:55 PM »
Ok some progress.  Need retainers to hold it all together when a blade breaks.  A crank and pitman arm.
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