Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:38 pm
As to the gun, noice!
Clear primer and glue really helped this thing come out clean. Clean to the point you don’t want to paint it. :-p Might be a bit difficult to tow around, although I bet the power of the gun itself makes it well worth it.
I wouldn’t simply go with ones own natural bias, and start to claim it to be superior. It is known that Joel machines the Supah on a metal lathe, capable of .001” tolerances. While Gort does such on a wood lathe. Quite simply these machines aren’t designed of producing strict tolerances. Heck, I’ve never heard of a wood project requiring anything near .01”. In the diameter were talking lathing a O-ring to just 1% squeeze is going to result in a ~.00125” difference. A wood lathe quite simply cant touch that. Remember a lathe uses a series of acme rods to jog the tool post, with the tooling tightly secured, along the bed. So all the operations are mechanical, with the user input of spinning one of several crank/hand wheels to rotate the acme rod, converting this into a linear motion. A wood lathe simply has a flat rest linear to the work piece secured to the bed. The user simply uses a tool, similar in size to that of a screwdriver, with a sharpened end and while resting along this rest, the user feeds such into the work piece. I mean I don’t think a well trained sniper could even pull off tolerances achieved by a metal lathe on a wood lathe.
I’m not drawing any conclusions, just stating that one cannot simply start to support one as there is many to factors to compare. I could only see physical data turning up such support.