Lathe Dog

[scope eye]

Does anyone make or sell a lathe dog other than those big clunky cast iron versions, like a aluminum one or the like.

Dean

 

[ridgeway]

I am not aware of any commercially available aluminum dogs. Whats wrong with the cast? Aluminum probably isn't the best material for a lathe dog anyhow. If you absolutely need aluminum ones, why not make them?

 

[scope eye]

I don't really need alum, but the ones they sell just look so crude to be used on such a precision machine.

Dean

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Its not like it needs to be very precise. If you like pretty ones youll probably have to make one

 

[tac284]

I have a few purchased ones but most of mine I've made myself. DOM and key stock

 

[Ggmac]

What are you trying to do ?

 

[scope eye]

All I am doing is Profiling so the cast ones are fine, like I said I was just wondering if there was something with a more machined look.

Dean

 

[hogpatrol]

All I am doing is Profiling so the cast ones are fine, like I said I was just wondering if there was something with a more machined look.

Dean

I've hunted with some ugly dogs who did just fine. Same goes for lathe dogs.

 

[shortgrass]

Use one that's made of aluminum and nicely polished and they might start calling you "lathe dog" instead of scopeye.

 

[billlarson]

Does anyone make or sell a lathe dog other than those big clunky cast iron versions, like a aluminum one or the like.

Dean

make one to fit your needs..............

 

[shortgrass]

Just buy one of the cast iron ones. Draw file it down to as smooth as you can, then take it to the buffer and polish it up nice, so it shines like it was chromed ! Oil it up, so it doesn't rust,,, or better yet Ceracoat it !

 

[Ggmac]

Just gold plate it !

 

[hogpatrol]

Paint it to match your machine!

 

[scope eye]

This is what happens when you hang around mills and lathes, you think everything should have the machined or billet look, that raw castings stuff just don't cut it anymore.

Dean

 

[hogpatrol]

This is what happens when you hang around mills and lathes, you think everything should have the machined or billet look, that raw castings stuff just don't cut it anymore.

Dean

I agree but if you started out on leftover machines from World War Two like I did, you soon learned looks didn't equate to function and capability.
Now, we're in to pretty painted and polished machines that stall if you just stand there and THINK about taking a heavy cut, ultra clean shops, and "operators".

 

[shortgrass]

Those heavy, rigid old machines had lots of that "ugly ol' cast iron" in them. With a brass tag rivited on in a conspicious place that said "US GOVERNMENT PROPERTY" "War Production Board" with a bunch of numbers imprinted on it, whos' meaning has long since been forgotton. That kinda' discribes my Index vertical mill. Doesn't have overdrive, but just won't stall. She ain't pretty, but she'll do about all the milling I need. Has her limitations but has paid for herself many times over during the past 20yrs. I've owned her. Lots of cast iron there! Made long before foundries were deemed to be "too dirty" for the USA environment.

 

[wvlongshot]

Grizzly sells a nice one. Looks like a viper style barrel vice with a drive leg off of it