I have recently been given a used Dremel Lathe, model 700-1. I am learning to build miniature dollhouse furniture and wanted the lathe to learn how to turn 1:12 scale furniture legs.
I have not used a lathe before. This lathe is bolted to a board. On the right is where you put a piece of wood onto a pin and there is a large "nut" that can be screwed in to push the wood to the left. On the left is an oblong metal "sleeve" with a square shape inside it...also metal. It is all one piece.
Is this lathe missing something? Inside the "sleeve" on the left of the machine...how does the wood stay in there? Like I mentioned, the inside of this...uhhh...metal tube is square, but I don't see anything inside it to clamp onto the wood. Surely it needs to be clamped on both ends...?????
Also, attached to the wood platform is an Anker duplicator. Can someone explain how I use it, please. I see that its duplicating arm with sharp metal point tilts upwards and is able to slide back and forth on the horizontal, bolted down shaft. There seems to be a wood fence for the duplicator to rest on, and this one has a sharp piece of metal screwed horizontally into the wood fence...that looks like it might be a metal pattern for making a spindle leg. Are there other metal patterns like this available? How do I use it?
Sorry for all the questions, but I'm in over my head and decided to come to you guys to help me out. Feel free to send diagrams, photos...whatever might help me out...to my email address...and thanks! Thelma
I have not used a lathe before. This lathe is bolted to a board. On the right is where you put a piece of wood onto a pin and there is a large "nut" that can be screwed in to push the wood to the left. On the left is an oblong metal "sleeve" with a square shape inside it...also metal. It is all one piece.
Is this lathe missing something? Inside the "sleeve" on the left of the machine...how does the wood stay in there? Like I mentioned, the inside of this...uhhh...metal tube is square, but I don't see anything inside it to clamp onto the wood. Surely it needs to be clamped on both ends...?????
Also, attached to the wood platform is an Anker duplicator. Can someone explain how I use it, please. I see that its duplicating arm with sharp metal point tilts upwards and is able to slide back and forth on the horizontal, bolted down shaft. There seems to be a wood fence for the duplicator to rest on, and this one has a sharp piece of metal screwed horizontally into the wood fence...that looks like it might be a metal pattern for making a spindle leg. Are there other metal patterns like this available? How do I use it?
Sorry for all the questions, but I'm in over my head and decided to come to you guys to help me out. Feel free to send diagrams, photos...whatever might help me out...to my email address...and thanks! Thelma