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So, I've found this forum ). I was looking for documentation to my old lathe, which is a Swedish Orn lathe from about WW2. I found that member Hawkeye here have the same type of lathe and registred.
I bought the lathe for 600 dollars and fetched it from a small old aircraft hangar. It didn't look very nice at the time but it would spin and all original accessories appeared to be included.
We used an old wooden drill tower to load it on the truck.
The lathe came home to my garage without hazzle. Here it has been cleaned and painted. The spindle oilers were cracked so they were replaced and I took out the spindle assembly and cleaned it and checked the bearings.
The original 3 jaw chuck was in bad condition with odd jaws. The 4 jaw independent chuck was in superb condition. I bought a lightly used precision steel chuck and replaced the stock 3 jaw with.
The lathe has also been provided with a frequency converter, a DRO and a better tool post. I'm only using modern cutters so the lathe works very well for just about any type of turning. It has a removable section so it is possible to throw in a 18" rim if you want.
The last pictures for this time is when the lathe was used to convert a front wheel from drum to disc brake on an old moped, and a Sixdays' Classic Monark 125 CC that I have among other vehicles.
Movie from when the frequency converter was tested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTRlJApB_QY
Another one that shows the DRO in work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHGGVxk80t0
This when I turned an adpater bushing for the new old tool post. The center hole in it for the lathe stud was 2 mm too wide, 52 instead of 50 mm so I made a precision bushing to match them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqt84sgctAs
To be continued, stay tuned !
I bought the lathe for 600 dollars and fetched it from a small old aircraft hangar. It didn't look very nice at the time but it would spin and all original accessories appeared to be included.
We used an old wooden drill tower to load it on the truck.
The lathe came home to my garage without hazzle. Here it has been cleaned and painted. The spindle oilers were cracked so they were replaced and I took out the spindle assembly and cleaned it and checked the bearings.
The original 3 jaw chuck was in bad condition with odd jaws. The 4 jaw independent chuck was in superb condition. I bought a lightly used precision steel chuck and replaced the stock 3 jaw with.
The lathe has also been provided with a frequency converter, a DRO and a better tool post. I'm only using modern cutters so the lathe works very well for just about any type of turning. It has a removable section so it is possible to throw in a 18" rim if you want.
The last pictures for this time is when the lathe was used to convert a front wheel from drum to disc brake on an old moped, and a Sixdays' Classic Monark 125 CC that I have among other vehicles.
Movie from when the frequency converter was tested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTRlJApB_QY
Another one that shows the DRO in work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHGGVxk80t0
This when I turned an adpater bushing for the new old tool post. The center hole in it for the lathe stud was 2 mm too wide, 52 instead of 50 mm so I made a precision bushing to match them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqt84sgctAs
To be continued, stay tuned !