Atlas 10" Handle Repair.

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Well I got tired of the compound handle on my atlas lathe not having the handle on the end. So luckily the knob had broken off in the ball. So I went ahead and started drilling trying to remove the old shaft and got lucky and had the end come out leaving the factory bore intact. So after careful measurement I went ahead in making a press for knob. I made a forming tool and used an unknown grade of SS to make the knob. Dimensions were only for rough In. I tried for roughly 1/3rd scale of the sample I had on the cross slide knob which isn't correct to my lathe anyway. Any questions ask away. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1436052154.680497.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1436052176.211416.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1436052188.310438.jpg
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I probably should've mentioned the handle wasn't pressed in completely just started to check clearances and such. Here's after tapping it in with a brass mallet. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1436071059.876853.jpg


Regards-Carlo
 
I was pretty proud of this when I first finished it. But the more I look at it the less I'm proud of it. I may attempt another. This one functions and for not having much machining experience I thought it was decent. I'd like to round the end a bit more and smooth it out a bit more.


Regards-Carlo
 
good job Carlo! I've made a couple of replacement handles and they're never as easy as you'd think. I have read of someone making one by precisely measuring the width of the original (or similar and scaling it) at fixed distances along the length, then using a thin grooving tool to plunge cut to that depth at that distance. then a round nosed bit like the one you used, file and sand paper. Trying to do it freehand is really hard, although yours came out way better than mine did!
 
This was mainly plunge cut and worked the carriage and cross slide to give me a good roughing cut. Then finish it off with a rounded file and some 320 sandpaper. Took me about an hour from bar stock to installed. I attempted to scale it to about 1/3 of the larger one but I didn't get it where I'd like it. It is comfortable however.


Regards-Carlo
 
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