New To Me Mckenzie Lathe

Izzy

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Well guys I finally picked it up and got it home! Here it is! It will be more than enough for what I need it for. I got it for 300CAD and it came with a 3 jaw Chuck, all the change gears, some endmills, a bunch of tool bits and about 8 packs of brand new inserts. It also came with a steady rest but it fell off the truck and broke in 3 pieces :( and I was almost lucky enough to find a 127 tooth gear... But it's a 128 damn...
Everything is pretty tight and doesn't move to easily im gonna clean it up as best I can any advice is appreciated I need all the help I can get this is my first lathe! IMG_20161119_205532.jpg IMG_20161119_205654.jpg IMG_20161119_205711.jpg IMG_20161119_205749.jpg IMG_20161119_205826.jpg
 
Sweet!! Nice lathe. Too bad about the steady rest. Maybe it can be brazed.
 
I don't think so I couldn't find all the pieces as it fell out on the highway I didn't realise the steady rest wasnt tighten down when I took off :( anyone know how to thread on a machine that has no thread chasing dial? Or maybe I'm.just not seeing it, but it's got a chart for threading so I know it can thread....
Also does anyone know if it would be possible to hook up a DRO to this thing? The hand wheels don't even have graduated collars.
 
Hey Izzy: Good find on that lathe. I have seen that style of gearbox go for more than you paid for the entire machine.
I have spent many years in Guelph and had no idea that McKenzie had a factory there.
There was a different McKenzie lathe on Kijiji not that long ago.
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This one was up on kijiji for 600 originally I gave him a 300 deposit and we got to chatting when I got there we where both big Toyota fans so he ended up giving it to me for the 300 :p
 
Nice, she is cute, looks like a well built machine and hope you get many years of use out of it, good find, happy for you, Cajun Lathe
 
anyone know how to thread on a machine that has no thread chasing dial?

Never disengage the half nuts. Reverse to starting point before making another cut. Same as would be done if metric treading if that 127 gear had been there. if it has no reverse. Then reverse manually.
 
Also does anyone know if it would be possible to hook up a DRO to this thing?

Should be no problem. Selecting scale lengths is the biggest chore before ordering. And that's easy.
 
Awesome! I won't be adding that for a while but it's good to know it's possible for the future.
Is it possible to make my own thread chasing dial or Even buy one that could work on this lathe?
The saddle is on a rack a pinion is this normal or an old machine type thing is it possible to ditch the rack an pinion for a another screw? Basically id like to know what I can do to update my machine a little
 
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