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Are you a ham?

Looks reasonable to me.

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Rube Goldberg 'solution'.

Cut strips of aluminum pop can to fill in the recessed portion of the shaft.

The picture above was actually taken to show how close the Lathe Drive and Live Tailstock Center get together without the Quill Extended. The Live Center has the Extension attached making it longer. Russ - Is this what your live center extension looks like? I was thinking about getting one before t...

Yes I was not including the riving knife and agree with Dennis. That said I was merely trying to understand the potential differences between a 'normal' blade and a thin kerf one. I need to acknowledge the riving knife as being created to prevent the squeezing scenario described above. Getting back ...

Binding becomes significant when the warpage presses against the plate. This occurs because the tooth set is making additional cutting at the back side of the blade. The difference between the kerf width and the plate width defines the amount of warpage movement that may occur until pressure is bein...

Maybe thee are using english as a second language?

Then there was the 'original' Mark VII which had both Mark VII and Mark 7 badges---And --- the recent addition of the current Mark 7.

It isn't. The reason for the question regarding kerf width vs plate thickness is that that difference is the maximum amount of tolerance of the kerf closing. i.e. the clearance between the kerf and the plate. I was wondering if the thin kerf clearance is less than the full width clearance, hence mak...