Can I bore a offset hole with a small metal lathe?
Question is, does any operation have to be dead-center? If I wanted to bore a offset hole in a piece of round rod can that be done? As opposed to dead in the middle? BTW, i’m not talking about using a drill press, so those answers are useless.
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you can put a hole where ever you want, with an end mill or a lathe, thats with the right tooling, a standard high speed drill bit will probily want to wander off and snap, try on a piece of scrap first, good luck
Yes, you can but you need a chuck that is not self centering.
If you have a chuck like that, you can mount the rod in it so the chuck holds it off center with the center of rotation where you want the hole to be. Then just put a drill in the tail stock and drill the hole.
With the rod in an adjustible four jaw chuck and a drill
in the tail-stock, you can do it.