Show us your lathe!
- Bill Shields
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How is the leather around the lacing?...or is that a glue joint I see?
That is where they generally fail.
That is where they generally fail.
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
Re: leather around the lacing
Bill,
The lacing is ... an alligator clip.
The glue joint is apparently "factory" and in the middle of the belt length ... not really noticed until now.
Overall the leather belt is in good condition. It is about 20 years in age. I did shorten it a few years ago to accommodate stretch.
Oh, and I used to run it on the rough rather than smooth face. So much learned in the interim.
Regards,
Andy
The lacing is ... an alligator clip.
The glue joint is apparently "factory" and in the middle of the belt length ... not really noticed until now.
Overall the leather belt is in good condition. It is about 20 years in age. I did shorten it a few years ago to accommodate stretch.
Oh, and I used to run it on the rough rather than smooth face. So much learned in the interim.
Regards,
Andy
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Giggle ..I have a 16" SB with a leather belt that is 35 years old and still in good shape.. evidently came from a cow that used a lot of moisturizer prior to being tenderized.
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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1939 Atlas/Craftsman 6" 10107301
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collets by mark westi, on Flickr
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collets by mark westi, on Flickr
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Re: Show us your lathe!
My new hobby lathe, G0602! Got it the first of the year during their sale, the discount paid for shipping. Been trying to learn how to use it ever since. Other than a brake lathe I haven't played on a lathe since high school!
The stand was an old gardening cart I'd made years ago that I majorly overhauled for the lathe, most all the materials used were already on hand, re-purposed. The lower shelves I loaded with a bunch of heavier cast iron so over all it's pretty stable.
The stand was an old gardening cart I'd made years ago that I majorly overhauled for the lathe, most all the materials used were already on hand, re-purposed. The lower shelves I loaded with a bunch of heavier cast iron so over all it's pretty stable.
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My dad's Myford Super 7 is finally back to work making chips again. With thanks to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbfUaeU ... ustinBlake for stand ideas and plans. Its next project/challenge is to complete an Allen Model's Ten Wheeler that he had started. Wish me well.
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I don't know if I've played this one, so here's mine:
Logan 9B-28-1 is my "home" lathe, I found this in a backyard covered by a ragged tarp and rusty as heck. I spent around 2 years getting it back in shape. Turned out there was a very unworn machine under the rust. I have since mounted this to a nicer bench and got it all tooled up.
This is a Logan Powermatic 11". I looked for one of these for years before finding this at auction. I'm running it on a VFD mounted in the cabinet. It's is very well tooled now. It's at my shop which is 30 miles from home, so we don't get much quality time together.
I also have a minilathe from LittleMachineShop.com. I've had a dozen minlathes over the years but the LMS is by far the best of these. I keep this one for small things like firing pins. Sorry, no photo.
Logan 9B-28-1 is my "home" lathe, I found this in a backyard covered by a ragged tarp and rusty as heck. I spent around 2 years getting it back in shape. Turned out there was a very unworn machine under the rust. I have since mounted this to a nicer bench and got it all tooled up.
This is a Logan Powermatic 11". I looked for one of these for years before finding this at auction. I'm running it on a VFD mounted in the cabinet. It's is very well tooled now. It's at my shop which is 30 miles from home, so we don't get much quality time together.
I also have a minilathe from LittleMachineShop.com. I've had a dozen minlathes over the years but the LMS is by far the best of these. I keep this one for small things like firing pins. Sorry, no photo.
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Well this is thematically a little out of place for this thread but I put my first lathe a 14x40 in here years ago so might as well put in it's half replacement. I say half because I got a Monarch 10EE to do 90% of my usual small size jobs. Everyone has seen one of those and it's not special so I didn't bother posting any pictures of it. I have industrial CNC's that do all my main work and my manual machines are mostly for 2nd op and one offs.
With the 10EE doing all the small stuff I decided to look for something for those occasional big jobs. I have a repeating job that would like 4' between centers. My big CNC lathe while having a 25" swing only has 28" of Z as lots of CNC's do. So I looked at 'dream lathe' sizes and decided a 20"x54" would be perfect. Not too big but big enough for any job I have had. Also a taper attachment would be nice. Still going to be 8 or 9 thousand pounds but not insane. My CNC lathe is 14,000lbs.
Because this is for 2nd op and for my enjoyment too I decide to go all out and try to find a dream machine. I pared it down to 3 models. A Monarch 612, a American Pacemaker Type D, or a Lodge & Shipley Powerturn. All come in 20"x54", and all are basically the best manual lathes every made. They are not at all rare. You can find a bunch of each type on eBay at any time. Issue is they were very expensive new and were used usually as production machines so most are absolutely hammered to death. They can be rebuilt but I don't have the time or skill to do that. HGR and Yoder usually have some porch paint specials up at any time. After a few years I just resolved I would have to go to Ohio and actually put eyes on a machine before buying it.
Then one came up locally. It was NOT the configuration I was looking for but the condition was amazing. Also the guy was the second owner and retiring. It was also very cheap because it was not shifting because of a hydraulic issue. Because of this it was very cheap. I rolled the dice and bought it. It cost more to move it than the purchase price. It took a month and lots of help from Monarch (their support is fantastic) but I got it fixed.
So the machine is a 1962 Monarch Series 62 Dyna-Shift Preselector 25" x 72" with an air/hydraulic tracer. I really wanted a 612 instead of 62 as they are manual shift. The hydraulic shift can be very, very hard to fix. All one off components made to insane tolerances. Also I wanted a taper attachment not a tracer, another huge complication. But again, beggars can't be choosers and condition is king. The ways are amazing. The inside of the headstock looked like new, not even any gunk in the bottom, clear oil. It has some interesting options. As mentioned the Air/Hydraulic tracer. It has rapids on both the feed and crossfeed. It has the HD two speed tailstock that also has a built in live center bearings. So instead of small bearing in a center it has 4 huge bearings that can take a much higher load and maintain better accuracy. It has a tang to drive drills.
It came with a Cushman/Union 15" 4 jaw chuck, a Cushman 15" 3 jaw chuck that was only used once, a Cushman 10" 3 jaw, an 18" faceplate, 2x 15" faceplates, a steady rest, a FIMS QC toolpost and a bunch of toolholders. He gave me lots of tooling as he was retiring. It's way too big but it is fantastic to use. It is very big and the wall is right there so very hard to get pictures showing a lot of the lathe.
With the 10EE doing all the small stuff I decided to look for something for those occasional big jobs. I have a repeating job that would like 4' between centers. My big CNC lathe while having a 25" swing only has 28" of Z as lots of CNC's do. So I looked at 'dream lathe' sizes and decided a 20"x54" would be perfect. Not too big but big enough for any job I have had. Also a taper attachment would be nice. Still going to be 8 or 9 thousand pounds but not insane. My CNC lathe is 14,000lbs.
Because this is for 2nd op and for my enjoyment too I decide to go all out and try to find a dream machine. I pared it down to 3 models. A Monarch 612, a American Pacemaker Type D, or a Lodge & Shipley Powerturn. All come in 20"x54", and all are basically the best manual lathes every made. They are not at all rare. You can find a bunch of each type on eBay at any time. Issue is they were very expensive new and were used usually as production machines so most are absolutely hammered to death. They can be rebuilt but I don't have the time or skill to do that. HGR and Yoder usually have some porch paint specials up at any time. After a few years I just resolved I would have to go to Ohio and actually put eyes on a machine before buying it.
Then one came up locally. It was NOT the configuration I was looking for but the condition was amazing. Also the guy was the second owner and retiring. It was also very cheap because it was not shifting because of a hydraulic issue. Because of this it was very cheap. I rolled the dice and bought it. It cost more to move it than the purchase price. It took a month and lots of help from Monarch (their support is fantastic) but I got it fixed.
So the machine is a 1962 Monarch Series 62 Dyna-Shift Preselector 25" x 72" with an air/hydraulic tracer. I really wanted a 612 instead of 62 as they are manual shift. The hydraulic shift can be very, very hard to fix. All one off components made to insane tolerances. Also I wanted a taper attachment not a tracer, another huge complication. But again, beggars can't be choosers and condition is king. The ways are amazing. The inside of the headstock looked like new, not even any gunk in the bottom, clear oil. It has some interesting options. As mentioned the Air/Hydraulic tracer. It has rapids on both the feed and crossfeed. It has the HD two speed tailstock that also has a built in live center bearings. So instead of small bearing in a center it has 4 huge bearings that can take a much higher load and maintain better accuracy. It has a tang to drive drills.
It came with a Cushman/Union 15" 4 jaw chuck, a Cushman 15" 3 jaw chuck that was only used once, a Cushman 10" 3 jaw, an 18" faceplate, 2x 15" faceplates, a steady rest, a FIMS QC toolpost and a bunch of toolholders. He gave me lots of tooling as he was retiring. It's way too big but it is fantastic to use. It is very big and the wall is right there so very hard to get pictures showing a lot of the lathe.
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Wow, that looks fantastic!
I wish you a lot of joy and productive work with it.
I wish you a lot of joy and productive work with it.
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Another WOW from here. If only I had the room.