Small Old Lathe

Nice. from the pic, It looks almost like my 3/4 - 16 , how does it turn as it looks real clean.
 
I gave it a quick spin up last night connected it to a power drill everything worked well cleaned and adjusted everything and it's nice and snug no movement in anything there shouldn't be anyways
 
I gave it a quick spin up last night connected it to a power drill everything worked well cleaned and adjusted everything and it's nice and snug no movement in anything there shouldn't be anyways
 
Ok, went and got a 5/8 nut and it fits so now to find a small chuck or maybe a drill chuck?
 
Heres some size comparison pictures

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If i adapt a drill chuck to fit the spindle will it be okay to hold pieces to machine?
 
Well, drill chucks hold drill bits that revolve at high rpm's as well as some pretty some pretty good torque as it drills. Try it, just take small ships to get used to the feed screws and see what it's limitations are.
 
You will prob have to look around to find something to fit it. Other than that just use the Drill chuck for now, and have some fun with it.
 
kvt said:
You will prob have to look around to find something to fit it. Other than that just use the Drill chuck for now, and have some fun with it.
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Well yeah that's kinda what I was thinking, my other big old lathe is in pieces at the moment I am painting it and giving it a goodclean up and fixing what ever I find that's broken but we are moving house in 2 weeks so don't want to do anymore to it would hate to loose anything seeing I can't even find a picture of what it is supposed to look like or any information at all..

Will go down after work and see if I can find some sort of chuck to fit

I melted down some brass this weekend that would fit on this wee thing perfect!
 
I've seen 3" and even 2" lathe chucks on eBay from time to time... Cheap . Like $50 or thereabouts... The other thing is try finding a dead center for the headstock and turn to centers.
 
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