I am talking in terms of a
light cut on a stiff aluminium bar between centres.
That assumes your tailstock is dead nuts on. If not you're going to be
trying to compensate for a mix of tailstock + bed errors. If you use the
bar unsupported there are flex issues. Having said that you always get
some flex in the work so maybe it is a good thing that the test bar
flexes slightly...
When I was playing with the head alignment on my Colchester I used a
large chunk of Delrin bar and a very sharp cutter. The bar was pretty
stiff and cutting forces were low.
Les
On 25/09/2018 12:19, andy pugh wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 11:15, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
This is also true. But that test bar costs money too.
It can stay in stock as useful material. I am talking in terms of a
light cut on a stiff aluminium bar between centres.
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