Clarke Lathe

[GeorgeD]

The tool is about 20mm out of the toolpost and is slightly angled to the face of 16mm stainless steel rod.

Speed? well can't give you exact speed in RPM but the dial is pointing at 10 o'clock position I'd say about 400 to 500 RPM?

No didn't lock the saddle up

Sorry about the noise on the pics,seems I pic noise up in the camera when using standard batteries and its ok when I use rechargable...most odd?

[FatFreddie]

The tool is about 20mm out of the toolpost and is slightly angled to the face of 16mm stainless steel rod.

Just a thought - what are you using to shim the tool - it needs to be something uncompressible like steel strip - hard to tell what it is in the picture.

If you can't get it exactly to hight, err on the low side rather than the high.