How To: Ford CMP "Blitz" miscellany

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Gjamo,

Thanks for the advice. I plan to bolt the plate to the wood with coach screws through the disk mounting holes and also bolt the steel plate outside the circle to the wood so that it does not fly around when cut all the way through. That part is only going to be scrap so a few extra holes in it won't matter. Could see a real disaster happening there otherwise.

Light feeds with the compound slide should do it. Any other suggestions out there?

Cheers,

[Mike K]

Jacques

The method you describe should be effective. I did it once and no problems happened.

I think you might get into strife if you have the rpm's too high . Keep the revs down and feed gently . But as gjamo wrote, things can go wrong .

[Jonathan Moore]

Silly question but why such a high risk process? Why not scribe a circle, roughly cut it out with a thin cutting disk on an angle grinder and then finish to the scribe line with a grinding disk. !0 min job, no bits of metal flying around, no damage to your lathe, body intact.........


Jon

[David Herbert]

I agree with Jonathan, much easier and quicker to do it with a grinder freehand and with a bit of care you won't be able to tell the difference. If you do it in the lathe you will still have to remove the sharp edge with either a file or grinder and flapwheel so some craftsmanship still needed.

Were the Australian bridging disks just flat metal as in the photo above or did they not have a profiled edge like the British ones ?

David

[Private_collector]

Jacques,

I have a disc I believe is genuine item, around here somewhere.

You are welcome to have it, once found.

T