Although the testpiece had looked very promising, we soon
found out that the full wheelcover was not going to work this
way; the machine itself was preventing us from doing a full
circle as it interfered with the cover, as the total height
of the wheelcover is too much to fit in the Pullmax.
Oh well, time for plan B! We are now going to try our hand
at some metal spinning like in the Youtube movie above. We
realise it won't be as easy as it looks but the only way to
learn new things is to try them.
We will be using the big URSUS lathe, and make the tooling
from scratch so here we go:
