Large Case Formers! Do you really want one? Well, if you do and don't have a big lathe maybe these ideas can help you. I had a smaller cheapy lathe that I bought from a big box store. They don't sell them anymore and I burned mine up trying to make a former that is larger than an 8 inch'er. I contemplated what to do about this and I came up with a solution that went sideways...literally. Instead of laminating blocks of wood and machining them round I decided to take flat sheets and cut them ro
I've had or made about 4 different versions of ball mills in my day. When things got serious and I moved up to a large ball mill the one thing that never changed was the mill jar that I use. This style has been an "old faithful" for me so I'll share what I have done. The material I use is schedule 40 PVC plumbing pipe and parts. There is a lighter duty PVC pipe known as Drain, Waste, and Vent (DWV). I've lived through a couple of dropped jars in my day and I would like to give the rigid schedule
