Quote Originally Posted by Max
have you considered attaching 3 flamethrowers onto a lathe to make your own version of that awsome machine!
No, my lathe ain't strong enough for this kind of jobs.
@ Gary, A ceramic disk between chuck and headstock and aircooling on/in the headstock, and you won't get boiling oil. I did think about it for use with a bigger lathe.
When you did it how thick did you have the end plates and the tubing and was it made of aluminium or steel?
I can't weld ali (unless you want to give me £2200 for a propper AC/DC TIG), so it was steel or stainless steel.(done both).
Tubing-wall depends on diameter ,the bigger the diameter the thicker the wall needs to be. Coupled with the guideline 3times wall.