Читать книгу Boys' Make-at-Home Things онлайн

16 страница из 20

The pieces of the tool rest are shown in Fig. 4 and Fig. 5. Fig. 6 shows it as it looks when it is put together in place on the bed of the lathe.

Fig. 4 shows the tool rest itself—that is, the part upon which the chisel or gouge is steadied for cutting. This is fastened upright upon the end of Fig. 5, which is a standard which extends across the bed and is clamped in place, as the tail block is, to a block underneath, except that, instead of being screwed, it is fastened with a three-eighth inch bolt and nut.

Fig. 7 shows the whole lathe “assembled,” or put together with each part marked according to its figure numbers so that you can see just how it goes.

Fig. 7

All the material it has required has been:

One old sewing machine.

About fifty cents’ worth of hard wood.

One three-inch lag screw.

One three-eighths-inch bolt five inches long, with nut and washer.

Four iron washers for gas pipe.

One foot of gas pipe.

Seven three-inch wood screws.

A few cents’ worth of Babbitt metal.

The result is a good practical lathe on which anything up to eight inches in diameter and twenty-one inches long may be turned; and I think you’ll all agree that it was well worth the making.