Pipe Ring making lathe MK III - Live test!

A successful conversion of my mk ii ring lathe from wood bearings to ball bearings, after grit and friction made the wood smoke ..
Six 'ordinary' sealed ball bearings... marvels of engineering and so relatively cheap. Actually I had only bought four. and the shops are shut so I improvised two unsealed bigger bearings that were free in the recent epic garage sale with the trays of free bits and bobs... when inventing saved bits... 'loose parts' as the Pickler daycare theory recommends for children to play with and use their imagination... goes for inventors too!
I also tested a coarse toothed hacksaw for grooving and cutoff...it works! especially when I added a little grooved guide pivot point for the end of the hacksaw to rest in.
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[@grahamhughes2025]

Peter, I so love how you think and who you are......so very very creative........so very.

[@wizardofeutopia]

Thanks! It's a battle of thoughts to a huge degree... I'm an optimist so I keep trying ideas out .. and an optimiser not a perfectionist so I keep improving things rather than giving up when it's not perfect... I'm noticing a development process is always fractal - you have several parts to a big solution, you solve them and think it's done but then as you work to 'perfect' your solution each of those parts turns up second level problems which can look just as large as the original problem... So you can give up unless you are prepared for this phenomenon and get down to each new problem with a beginners mind again... Always new insights and ideas are needed, at every level of improvement... I'm in the middle of that now!

[@muttlee9195]

Yay ❤