I have to thank you guys.

Why not us a cutoff tool on your lathe instead of a band saw?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

Because they're too big. Your cut off tool would have to stick out the
radius of the part that you're cutting, and you'd loose too much rigidity.
Besides, a good bandsaw is faster.

The real question is why spend an hour making something you can buy for
$10.00, and probably at half the weight?

In article JYbue.92064$xm3.23541@attbi_s21,
says...

Why not us a cutoff tool on your lathe instead of a band saw?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

Because they're too big. Your cut off tool would have to stick out the

radius of the part that you're cutting, and you'd loose too much rigid
ity.
Besides, a good bandsaw is faster.

The real question is why spend an hour making something you can buy fo
r
$10.00, and probably at half the weight?

1 You can make them any dia. you want.

2 The satisfaction of making it yourself.

2 The satisfaction of making it yourself.


Yea, I guess I get all caught up in the profitability aspect of the venture.

I own a machine shop that specializes in building plastic injection molds.
About once a week I get a farmer in the shop that wants me to build a gear
that he could buy at the local parts store for $20.00. They never understand
the amount of time it takes to make a 1 off item, or the actual cost
involved.

LCT Paintball wrote:


The real question is why spend an hour making something you can buy for
$10.00, and probably at half the weight?
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1. Mostly because I can.
2. I would prefer to spend the $10 on something else.
3. A simple part, such as pulley... or a gun barrel... provides a good
opportunity to pass my skills along. Besides imparting a fair degree
of competence in my own kids, I've trained a few hundred sailors, a
number of Scouts, a couple of wannabee homebuilders and I've now got a
crop of grandkids coming on line.
4. If you have to ask, you probably won't understand the answer.

-R.S.Hoover

wrote:


LCT Paintball wrote:


The real question is why spend an hour making something you can buy for
$10.00, and probably at half the weight?

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1. Mostly because I can.
2. I would prefer to spend the $10 on something else.
3. A simple part, such as pulley... or a gun barrel... provides a good
opportunity to pass my skills along. Besides imparting a fair degree
of competence in my own kids, I've trained a few hundred sailors, a
number of Scouts, a couple of wannabee homebuilders and I've now got a
crop of grandkids coming on line.
4. If you have to ask, you probably won't understand the answer.

-R.S.Hoover


'sides it bullds character.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired