2015 POTD Thread Archive

I've been working for two months (accumulating equipment, making errors, etc.) and finally have my X drive complete on my PM25. The power is from a auto window drive, 12 volt from a battery charger, through a Chinese variable [something]. slow speed is one Inch per minute, fast is seven I/M. I don't have a rapid, but it sure beats cranking.
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I've still gotta cover the belt/pulley.
 
I hauled my Sieg SC8 lathe out of the basement and into the garage in preparation for loading it onto a trailer so I can bring my new lathe home on Tuesday.
It is really amazing what a determined man can do with a chain fall when working alone...
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(Thanks maker of things for the speech bubble idea :) )
 
hey tom, why didn't you make the power feed under the table top? you never plan on having a tube on that thing or what? :) :)
 
Power feed is flush with the top, the control is on top. Bad Planning, besides it's only a PM25, and my shop isn't all that big,either.

If push came to shove, I could remove those two buttonhead screws and lay the control on the side.
 
I could tell that by the picture, was just rib stickin lol. have you thought of putting the control near the front maybe mounted to the bench for easy access?
 
chevydyl said:
have you thought of putting the control near the front maybe mounted to the bench for easy access
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I had lots of thoughts/plans, when I finally got started, making it, the box became more important than where it went. I may reconsider, put it on the counter underneath with the controls on the front.
 
good job on it tho, I have a 24v geared head motor that I was thinking of using for an elec power feed on the atlas lathe, listening to the change gear racket when doing long jobs is rather annoying.
 
I got the biggest share of the work done on my tool holder this weekend. I'm resurrecting an old K.O. Lee cutter grinder I picked up years ago, with all the most important parts missing. It is a table top model, but the grinder head and the tooling wasn't there, so I'm filling in the gaps. I've been following Mark's build, but I decided I could cheat a little by using an old spindex mounted to an angle plate. I found this angle plate amongst some old lathe tooling I had and I think it was originally made for a milling attachment for my 10" SB. Anyway, I whittled a bunch of cast iron off this indexer, not to mention a lot of rust that was under the bondo and paint. I think I'm gonna shorten the draw tube some and modify the crank. Next step is the spindle.....I got lucky and found a Dumore spindle under my work bench. The only drawback is that is for internal grinding and I will have to turn the taper out of the shaft to accomodate an arbor.
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