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  • 13-05-2010 7:17pm
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    mazthespark
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭


    hi,
    any one out there in the galway area any good on a lathe? need to get a spindle remade have the original but its in 2 pieces. or any ideas where i could go to get one made

    Thanks


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    ronboy
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭ronboy


    How badly is it broke?? you might be able to repair it.
    Stick up a pic of it...:)


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    mazthespark
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭mazthespark


    not badly could be easily repaired but the person im doin it for is insisting on new one! theres no changing there mind on it


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    galwaydude18
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    Could you pick one up in your friendly joinery companies?


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    mazthespark
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭mazthespark


    ya was gonna try there tommorrow but thought some boardsies mite have some ideas first.


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    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Is the spindle a modern turning or old, as in antique. Any joinery setting up a copier using your broken spindle as a template, will have far more overheads than a local woodturner. Quickest option, depending on the break of course, is probably boring into both pieces of the spindle, and inserting a wooden or metal dowel. Job done

    kadman


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    mazthespark
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭mazthespark


    ya its perfectly easy to repair but insisting on a new one no idea why. ya i mite have a call around tomorrow and see if they could make up one


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    ronboy
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭ronboy


    mazthespark wrote: »
    ya its perfectly easy to repair but insisting on a new one no idea why. ya i mite have a call around tomorrow and see if they could make up one

    Let us know how you get on with them and what price they are;)


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    sfakiaman
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭sfakiaman


    Try Ambrose O'Halloran, Cregboy, Claregalway.


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    teepee
    Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭teepee


    Ambrose O'Halloran is your man a legend in galway for wood turning .


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    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I have a hydraulic copy lathe, about 4 miles from Claregalway.


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    mazthespark
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭mazthespark


    found a neighbour of mine who works in a joinery (didnt even know him) and they have a copy lathe so said he would look at getting it made up for me
    thanks for all the replies lads


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    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    mazthespark wrote: »
    found a neighbour of mine who works in a joinery (didnt even know him) and they have a copy lathe so said he would look at getting it made up for me
    thanks for all the replies lads

    Well done,

    kadman


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    mazthespark
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭mazthespark


    got the spindle sorted lads. joinery wanted crazy money to make it!!! big thank you to galwayrush for all his help and a great job on it too. top man!


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    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Glad to be able to help mazthespark.:cool:
    Sorry i wasn't able to duplicate 75 years of paint LOL.:D


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