Duplicated Thread ?

Howard

Welcome to the forum Ger and please don't be put off by some peoples attempt at humour.

I don't have a Cowells but have been meaning to try the rear toolpost on my Boxford. Your video convinces me that would be a good move.

Brian

Geometrically the front and rear parting tools are pushed in the same relative direction compared to the rotation of the workpiece.

What prevents the dig in is the 'spring' when a rear parting tool is pushed away from the lathe bed as against the 'jamming' of the tool between the work and the rigid lathe bed.

Another advantage of the upside down rear lathe tool is that chips fall away from the cutting edge of the tool.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 29/08/2019 19:19:11

Thanks for that link Martin – it clearly shows how a tool in a rear tool post or upside down in the normal one 'springs' away from work as against 'jamming' when set up in the normal way better than just using the words as I did. A picture says a thousand words and a youtube video can often be even clearer!!

It is a shame that the computer simulation shows a tool so far above the centre though, as that makes the problem bigger than in real life.

I think the "smart-ass" comment was intended in a friendly manner. It was a very tame and light hearted bit of welcoming chat by the person who posted it. Whilst I agree a forum should be welcoming and not overly critical I think it is possible to have a slightly too thin skin, or we would only want to converse with sycophantic robots.

You are very welcome, and I am interested in your posts. Teething troubles with posting on forums are to be expected especially as there are so many different types of forum out there!

You clearly got the link to work but I'm blessed if I can! Would you mind posting the appropriate search string?

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Allow me, ega

http;//youtu.be/-RZRq0olsxM

contains a semicolon where there should be a colon … Thus:

**LINK**

MichaelG.

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Edit: But Nick has now managed to conceal the original sin !!

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 30/08/2019 18:05:38

Well tried it on the other systems and on every combination of OS and browser it automatically corrects http;// to http://

Just all part of life's rich pageant (As Inspector Clouseau remarked on getting out of the pond again )

Michael –

Sussed it out I think. I copied the original link in Martin's Post and inserted it as a link in a new post. When inserting the link I used the original link with typo as the descriptive text – but when adding a link in this forum you only need to put the part after the http:// as URL as it preceeds it with http:// automatically when you fill in the form to add a link. It seems to assume the protocol always ends with :// So Martin's link on the post, with a typo was just text on the screen. The URL it pointed to was correct.

So if you click on the link it will take you to the right place. If you copy and paste in anything but Safari on an iPad it will also do so, but not there. Even more interestingly if you have google installed on the iPad it will open a search result – but the first video it suggests is the one wanted.

Even curiouser I think.

Take care,

Nick

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 30/08/2019 19:37:00

Many thanks. I can now see the video and will watch it later.

In the meantime, where I went wrong it seems is that having spotted the redundant period between "youtu" and "be" I tried to search just on the tail of the URL. However, I now find that Firefox and Duck Duck Go between them find the video despite the typos.