How To: Ford CMP "Blitz" miscellany

[Mike K]

Jacques

The method you describe should be effective. I did it once and no problems happened.

I think you might get into strife if you have the rpm's too high . Keep the revs down and feed gently . But as gjamo wrote, things can go wrong .

[Jonathan Moore]

Silly question but why such a high risk process? Why not scribe a circle, roughly cut it out with a thin cutting disk on an angle grinder and then finish to the scribe line with a grinding disk. !0 min job, no bits of metal flying around, no damage to your lathe, body intact.........


Jon

[David Herbert]

I agree with Jonathan, much easier and quicker to do it with a grinder freehand and with a bit of care you won't be able to tell the difference. If you do it in the lathe you will still have to remove the sharp edge with either a file or grinder and flapwheel so some craftsmanship still needed.

Were the Australian bridging disks just flat metal as in the photo above or did they not have a profiled edge like the British ones ?

David

[Private_collector]

Jacques,

I have a disc I believe is genuine item, around here somewhere.

You are welcome to have it, once found.

T