I have here a piece of scrap aluminum. It is a worn out 10 inch diamond wheel. My first challenge is to make it slightly smaller in diameter so as to fit my 9" South Bend.
So, since this is a ten inch wheel and I have a nine inch lathe I needed to reduce the diameter. This is how it is done.
After this I turned and threaded a 3" piece of round stock to fit the 1.5 x 8tpi spindle nose of my lathe.
Holes are drilled and tapped and the plate screwed to the spindle nose.
I face off the plate with the electric barbecue motor that I use to run the cross feed on my SB9 model C (see other projects).
After that, all said and done I have a usable face plate. It doesn't have any holes drilled in it but that will happen soon enough.
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