Pictures of Boring Machine : Greg

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Greg

I ran into a fellow a few years back who swore a horizontal boring jig 
he had made for his ... what the english name for the darn machine... 
dreiebenk... lathe I think.  He used a lathe for metal turning.  I 
watched him bore a whole set in a matter of what seemed like minutes... 
couldnt have been much more then the actual time it took to lift one 
hammer... put in quickly in the jig and a second or two to make the 
bore.  I could have purchased the whole thing from him as he was 
retiring... but I dont do enough do justify the expense... and do 
virtually no metal lathe work at all... so I didnt.

Did seem to me tho like the quickest most accurate way of doing hammers 
I'd ever seen.

Cheers
RicB