Center and chuck combo?

I’ve come across this twice in the last week. I’ve yet to see anyone use it like this, do I not know some neat lathe trick or should do someone get a better explanation on using chucks?

I also undid that little combo on Sunday right before my class. There is approximately zero reason for that. That same lathe hadn’t been swept/vacuumed after use either.

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I used the Woodshop Sunday night.

There is a weak muscle about cleaning up.

I think what would be perfect would be a room sized vacuum. As you left the room, you would throw a switch and all the sawdust would be sucked up by a giant room sized vacuum. No small tools would be safe.

Probably only cost us… $1 millllllllion dollars.

Which is sad because it takes maybe 1-2 minutes to sweep up after yourself.

I’d throw in a fiver for that room vac.

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I think if you stayed in the room it would Hoover your pocket change and ear wax too.

Better to vacuum out the folks who consistently leave messes.

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A swarm of roombas!

I do not know either.

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I wish it only took me a minute or two to clean up, but then, usually, I’m cleaning up after considerably more than myself in the woodshop.

One thing I have noticed, with considerable regularity, are folks working in some other area, come into the woodshop, use a tool (bandsaw, drillpress, etc) and then leave without cleaning up. It’s probably easy to move over to a tool, see a mess already there, and think ‘screw this, I’m not picking up some pig’s mess.’ I know there’s the whole ‘do-ocracy’ thing, but how prevalent is it?

Also, whoever left a toolbox top full of chisels there Saturday night, I put them back for you…

You’re welcome.

Maybe someone confusing it for a chuck screw?

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That was my first inclination as well.

Read that as “wombats” until I put my 'puter glasses on.

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