will this work????

[Albino Sasquatch]

im getting a little bench lathe, its for metal but i was wondering if you can use it for glass. sorry if this is a dumb question i just have zero lathe knowledge and was hoping someone could enlighten me:puzzled:

[LTD]

there are a lot of factors. Chuck size, moving headstock being two of the most important.

[l33t:weasel]

i am almost positive you can make cain with it.. however probably not much of anything else.

[LTD]

Cain? maybe. Cane? Definitely. I can raise cain with no help, just add liquor :devil:

[l33t:weasel]

if yer gonna correct my spelling i bet u break 3000 posts in no time. yur lucky i didnt spell er kain yo. folk live in lowlands fer to long... gets ta thinking certain kinda stuff more important that it reall is. like spellin for xample.

[Uriel]

Spellings important online weas,, because people read the words and take things in context as opposed to scratching around to find the word that is 'supposed' to be there. Someone with dyslexia could already be struggling to read then someone like you makes simple spelling errors and fucks it up.

Shane does the one chuck drop away? Could be usefull for making Dildos on.

[ALIEN!]

most metal lathes have only 1 rotating chuck and the other end is basically a stationary drill chuck. If what you are doing can be done without 2 chucks and the one chuck will accommodate your tubing you might be ok. On the other hand, most smaller metal lathes I've used didn't have slow enough speed capabilities for glass.

[Uriel]

Couldnt it be bumped through a Rheostat with dial to bring the speeds down so its usefull?
Failing that I guess it could be used for metal work... Stainless steel tube anyone?

[LTD]

I was making a biblical joke, not really breaking balls about spelling. Sorry if you got offended. Everyone is super testy today... Not testes, testy

[l33t:weasel]

ltd: im not acutaly testy, im light hearted thru and thru. :)
urial: i have a learning disability that relates to spelling. I spend alot of time using the spell checker for everyone, but some stuff gets by. you would do well to not accuse me of causing problems for people with dyslexia.

and how u gonna say spelling is so important? u just spelled my name with 2 commas.

[mindblowingglass]

No it wont work. you could replace the motor or step it down with pullies but it still wont allow much. There is no hole threw the head stock useally and it doent have a moveable tailstock (at least all I've seen) if your getting it for free you can make brass and stainless bowl pushes., national single tips etc I spent almost as much on tring to make my own lathe as I did on my lathe. My best was 2 drill presses that I had the chuck holder replaced with one with a 1/4" bore threw and ran them off the same spindle with a dayton motor. I had to manualy push the tail stock and carriage but it allowed some applications (far more than a metal lathe would. but its best to save up for a glass lathe

[Din]

It will spin much, much too fast. If you somehow could make it operate slowly enough to work for glass, it likely wouldn't have the control that a glass lathe does, nor the chuck style that would allow you to attach a blow tube.

[frillcappa]

it wont work, spins too fast, and the things you could make on it if you didnt would be better spun by hand anyway,

[Wrench75]

most smaller metal lathes I've used didn't have slow enough speed capabilities for glass.

If you run in to that problem you could always run a dimmer switch inline with the plug the lathe plugs in to. It is after all just a motor so if you dial down the dimmer switch it will slow the lathe down. Not exactly hi tech, maybe "high tech", but effective either way.

[l33t:weasel]

ok wrench75, that is sort of true. but what about the rest of the problems?

[Wrench75]

ok wrench75, that is sort of true. but what about the rest of the problems?

If I had other solutions i would have offered them. I'll look in to things a bit more when I get home from the studio today.

Although generally speaking, as someone who has worked as a mechanic for over 20 yrs. and has a degree in engineering, I have learned that, creativity is the key. Anything and everything can be altered don't look at something and see what it is, look for what it can become. The whole concept of "out of the box" thinking is where it is at. Hell I have a set of hot fingers that I made from, a clutch alignment tool, 3/8 air fitting, bars cut from a metal shelf and a ring cut from a car audio antenna!!

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j315/conman75/glass/IMG000287.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j315/conman75/glass/IMG000285.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j315/conman75/glass/IMG000286.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j315/conman75/glass/IMG000283.jpg

These pics were rite after I made them. They have since had the white paint burnt off the fingers by the torch and they work great!

Anyhow, to the original poster, if you get it and want to send me some pics of what you have and a description of what you want to be able to accomplish, I would be more that happy to see what I can come up with.

Take care,
Chad