October, 2007
This was getting ready to bore out the center of the nosecone tip.
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Setup for turning contour of tip. Next time i'll rough it down on the larger lathe.
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Starting to see the contour.
Thats looking more like a contour.
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Almost done with contour :)
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Did a little polishing to see how it'd look.
Getting ready to put the final contour on the tip. This didn't end up working. I ended up having to manually turn the tip, and the workpiece was 0.25" too short, so it got a bit of a stubby tip. It will still work fine, but the next one will hopefully have the contour to the very tip.
Nice and shiny, hopefully that will reduce the drag :)