A great start to the week!

[classic33]

I'm using it as a milling and boring machine so there's not need for turning.

Fair enough, so you bought a drill & milling machine.
I'm aware of how the Unimat can be set up, practically as any of the set machine shop machines.

 

[vernon]

Fair enough, so you bought a drill & milling machine.
I'm aware of how the Unimat can be set up, practically as any of the set machine shop machines.

You appear to be confusing drilling with boring. They are very different operations.

At the end of the day it is still a lathe no matter what I use it for.

 

[Oxo]

You appear to be confusing drilling with boring.

Some threads are boring, others just go round in circles.

 

[Aperitif]

Some threads are boring, others just go round in circles.

Lathe one out turn the light...

 

[Archie_tect]

Leeds is a great place to be. I liked it so much that I chose to stay here after graduating from Leeds Uni in 1980.

I liked Leeds so much after 18 years I went north in 1977... I still visit...

 

[vernon]

Some threads are metric the rest are imperial. boring, others just go round in circles.

Fixed that for you.

 

[vernon]

I liked Leeds so much after 18 years I went north in 1977... I still visit...

Our paths crossed. I went south in 1977.

 

[vernon]

Look, don't encourage him

I asked him if he could do double entendres and he gave me one.

 

[Oxo]

Pete Seeger recorded the theme song Lathe Society in 1962, 'Turn Turn Turn'

 

[slowmotion]

What do you make Vernon? Loads of stuff, or some particular speciality like very solid pie dishes?

 

[Aperitif]

What do you make Vernon? Loads of stuff, or some particular speciality like very solid pie dishes?

I heard that Vernon is a bit of an obsessive, and keeps making the same old scale model of his favourite French resort...
"Turned out Nice again..."

 

[Archie_tect]

... which was Nice.