Intro/New to spinning/Job opening

[PrinceofPan]

Hello!!

My name is Brad and I am a young designer in the R&D world with a degree in mechanical engineering. I hope to get my PE some day. I also do material purchasing at my company. It is a family company that my grandfather founded. I personally live in Hilliard, OH with my wife Lauren. We have a dog named Moe which we call Pete because he looks like Pete from The Little Rascals. I love to play golf and I love running. I am also a big fan of classic cars. Some day soon I hope to get my garage in working order so that I may begin restoring a 40's or 50's Ford truck. My wife is from the greater Detroit area and her mother loves old Ford pickup trucks. I would like to have it finished in time for their retirement as a gift. I have not begun researching yet but I imagine the older it is the harder the parts are to find. Can anyone recommend a specific model from that era in which parts are easier to find? I am still on the fence about whether or not to rebuild an existing motor or buy a newer motor with some real power to it.

The reason I joined this forum is that our company has just purchased its very first spinning lathe and we know very little about how to use it. We don't do a lot of spinning and it will be only for smaller jobs to reduce lead times for our customers. The jobs we get for this machine have proven quite difficult so far. If anyone does on site training or is willing to answer a few quick questions I would be very grateful. We are also looking at possibly hiring someone to program/run the spinner. It is an old CNC lathe with teach and replay joystick controls. We only have a couple of wheels at the moment which I suspect is part of our problem. I assume larger radius wheels will decrease friction and thinning to allow for the more difficult spins to flow more easily. Any advice or interested candidates looking for work should please respond to this. I will check this thread occasionally.

-Brad from OH

[Kerry Pinkerton]

Welcome to AllMetalShaping Brad.

We discourage long question and answer dialogs in the introduction forum because no one will ever be able to find them in a few weeks.

Instead, please post your spinning questions in the Metal Spinning forum on the site. We do have a few spinners here.

[Peter Tommasini]

HI Brad welcome to the forum
Peter