How To Make A Wood Lathe Out Of A Drill
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How to make a wood lathe out of a drill. I turned a cheap drill into a mini lathe. Insert first the nut and then the wood drive nut in the bolt. It works quite well for small projectsPlans diagrams with measurements anyway.
Insert the drive-in nut in the chuck and tighten it. Making the spindle As we have to make each and every part from the scratch with the available stuff to make it look and function like a wood lathe we will start with making a spindle. Put it in a vise and with the file make four points.
Using the hacksaw cut the head of the bolt. Considering that electric motors commonly come at 2400 or 2800 RPM as well as the cheaper low speed ones finding the right motor is part of the fun of creation. Here I make a drill powered woodworking lathe for my own use.
Next comes the front clamp. I used very hard plywood to make this lathe. Quite impractical to use belts pulleys and bearings when the concept is making a wood lathe in 30 minutes.
Cue some timber from local merchant and you start with this below. The lathe machine operator is known as a turner and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery.
Placing drill on the mounting block I put in a pilot drill and marked the wood. This left a small indent in the wood which was to be my centre point for the neck of my drill. Use a hex shaft screw driver bit and chuck it into the drill press now attach the chuck were using as a center and with the drill press running slowly very slowly feed the shaft.
