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Hi all,
Having lived in a townhouse for the last decade, my machine equipment has been limited to a portable Sieg 7" (aka HF). We are now moving to a real house with a real barn and will allow for a real shop. We are in the process of major renovations and additions, so we are still months away from the move. But I started looking for a real lathe, hoping to find a 10K, but would settle for a 9A. A friends brother heard of this and said he had a 13" that had to go. He had retired and no longer lived in state; get it now, or wait until the next visit in a year or two. As another thread here says, jump first, figure out what you bought later.
So I made a run down the coast and retrieved a 13" that turned out to be a 14 1/2". Note to future generations, a heavy enough tilt bed trailer with a ton+ of lathe and accessories is really more than S10 brakes were meant to handle. We got it loaded with three men, a heavy come-along, and an underrated overhead gantry. We got it unloaded with a wife, gravity, and a bit of ingenuity. It is now wedged into a corner of the barn and will sit until I get things cleaned up, power installed and the lathe properly positioned.
In the mean time I have been attempting to figure out what I have here. I have found information on setting up the VFD and other helpful things on this site. But there is one thing I can not find anywhere in web-land. What tooth counts should the change gears be? The stud gear is obvious, 24 or 48T. The idler doesn't matter as long as it meshes properly. But I can find nothing on the screw gear, the input to the transmission. Compounding my curiosity is this lathe has two gears bolted to the shaft, the large inner gear driven by the idler, the smaller outer gear in free space. This is further complicated by the lathe having come with what appears to be a partial set of metric gears. Unfortunately the lathe is positioned such that I can't get the gear cover open enough to get a good tooth count. I did get it open enough to see that the transposing gear was not there. Much disappointment.
Having lived in a townhouse for the last decade, my machine equipment has been limited to a portable Sieg 7" (aka HF). We are now moving to a real house with a real barn and will allow for a real shop. We are in the process of major renovations and additions, so we are still months away from the move. But I started looking for a real lathe, hoping to find a 10K, but would settle for a 9A. A friends brother heard of this and said he had a 13" that had to go. He had retired and no longer lived in state; get it now, or wait until the next visit in a year or two. As another thread here says, jump first, figure out what you bought later.
So I made a run down the coast and retrieved a 13" that turned out to be a 14 1/2". Note to future generations, a heavy enough tilt bed trailer with a ton+ of lathe and accessories is really more than S10 brakes were meant to handle. We got it loaded with three men, a heavy come-along, and an underrated overhead gantry. We got it unloaded with a wife, gravity, and a bit of ingenuity. It is now wedged into a corner of the barn and will sit until I get things cleaned up, power installed and the lathe properly positioned.
In the mean time I have been attempting to figure out what I have here. I have found information on setting up the VFD and other helpful things on this site. But there is one thing I can not find anywhere in web-land. What tooth counts should the change gears be? The stud gear is obvious, 24 or 48T. The idler doesn't matter as long as it meshes properly. But I can find nothing on the screw gear, the input to the transmission. Compounding my curiosity is this lathe has two gears bolted to the shaft, the large inner gear driven by the idler, the smaller outer gear in free space. This is further complicated by the lathe having come with what appears to be a partial set of metric gears. Unfortunately the lathe is positioned such that I can't get the gear cover open enough to get a good tooth count. I did get it open enough to see that the transposing gear was not there. Much disappointment.
