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I need to "borrow" it for 2 weeks before summer heats up. You must live in my local area. Within 20 miles of Anadarko, OK or be willing to drop it off for 2 weeks. What you will receive is a new tachometer after I am done. I don't have a 7xXX machine, but I have requests for a tach to fit...

I realize that quality servo motors and a synchronous control loop are not inexpensive but neither are they expensive. Why haven't they replaced the feed gearing on manual lathes? I would think it would greatly increase the range of threads that could be cut and save on the time required for...

I have been researching my first, possibly last, lathe purchase for a couple of months. I thought I had settled on a 1340GT and contacted Matt @ QMT last week. It was a fantastic pre-sales experience and Matt pointed me at this forum to research VFD conversion options. This led to the...

I made my first serious attempt at boring last week on a supremely under-powered and insufficiently rigid lathe. It took ~4 hours (yes, hours of listening to a belt slipping) to bore out a ~1.75" ID / 1" depth in 1018 (and I over ran my tolerance, so I get to make it again...). I started the...

I started learning to use a manual lathe towards the end of the last year and I have seen conflicting advise for the proper height of lathe tools. Often, I see a forum post with advise along the lines of "at center or slightly above" but I have also seen the opposite of "at center or slightly...

Hi everyone, i just bough an old lathe, i guess it should be around 1950 manufactured, and i cannot figure out the threads on the spindle. I need to make a new back plate for my new chuck but i don't have the treading gears so i need to identify them so i could machine 2 back plates(the boss...

I am a retired carpenter and fairly new to machine work, (about 5 years). I have a classing 5914 lathe that I absolutely love and would never part with, but have got into buying small lathes, cleaning/repairing them, then selling them for a small profit to support my machining habit. The problem...

Over the past few years I have developed a number of Electronic Edge Finders (EEFs) to be used on both my lathe and mill. All of them tried to have a simple "idiot light" on them that indicated when the cutter (or equivalent) touched a conductive reference surface clamped to the rest of the...

I purchased a 10x36 Cincinnati Hydra-shift that is in decent mechanical condition, but is about as ugly as they come. I'm guessing that it was in a shop in the 1980s when things got slow and someone was told to paint the lathe. That person didn't clean the lathe first, so that is why I have...

I recently acquired an Atlas 10 with a 54" bed. It has wear along the first foot or so of the ways. In order to scrape the whole bed back together would I require a straightedge that's around 54" long? Would a surface plate that long work if I scraped both sides in simultaneously? Just...

I need help replacing the Head turret Bearings in an old Lathe we use for making the dowel for tripod legs. The MFG & Model plate is worn/faded and is unknown. See photos. Usually I can figure these things out... but this one has me stumped. Can anyone tell me what would be involved please?

After reading post about vibration I noticed mine had a slight amount of vibration at times so I took a look at the belts while it was running and noticed how much they bounced around and I also noticed the large pulley was not running true as I could see wobble while it was turning and figured...

Hey, folks! I'm new around here (obviously). I recently found an old South Bend 9" lathe (in pieces) advertised in the local classifieds. I'd wanted a good metal lathe (and had an old 1941 craftsman wood lathe that included a compound slide for "light" metal turning). I saw the ad, and made...

I have a Craftsman 101-28990 w/QCGB. I would like to know what size gears should be on the change gears when adjusting the QCGB for threading? Im assuming there is a neutral set of gears that are used when using the QCGB? Love this forum!

Please change the layers on the file to work better with the drawing. http://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/toolpost-power-spindle.39295/#post-343820

Do you think my 1440 E LB could make good use of this type of parting/cutoff blade? i.e. is the machine rigid enough etc. I work mostly with steel. I like the idea of the insert being wider than the blade for deep cutting. Assuming thicker blade = more rigid doing deep cutting; what do you...

I am wondering, if there are any tools that can make all of their own parts? I'm especially interested if this is possible for metal lathes

Looking for a couple of items here, first one is a long shot: 1911 14" ATW Tool Room Lathe. I need either the gears from the quick change gear box, or the whole gear box, will take either. Second one is easy, a full thread 1/2-13, 2 1/2" long bolt for my spindle cap. I can find the bolts in...

I came across one heck of a deal on a lathe on CL, a Samson LHT-25B Turret Lathe. i had considered purchasing a second operation lathe for a while. one very troublesome piece of equipment that i frequently service( rebuild bi-monthly:mad:) is a large conveyor system that in my opinion didn't...

i"m Totally stoked, i just fell onto a pristine but dirty Hercus 9" workshop lathe on craigslist. For those who don't know the Hercus Lathe is a improved copy of the 9" south bend model A. they were imported from Australia, manufactured in Thebarton. it uses V belts instead of flat belts 9 x...