Atlas lathe 10d restoration

I have a lathe of similar vintage a 10C and replaced the same parts, One note is that other more recent Atlas lathes have a 3/4" lead screw, not 3/8" as you state above. That would indeed be small.

Good info on the interchangeability (or lack thereof) between Atlas lathes models. Enjoy the posts.

Tim
 
Lol thank you!! I must have had 3/8 on the mind... I will change it above :)

Dave

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Headstock Completed:

Below is the finished headstock....

Note the top cover didn't come with my lathe. I was able to find one with the mounting brackets and restored it. I had the original covers that would have been used with the vertical cantilever or a overhead drive shaft. I don't have the cantilever and will be making a vertical motor setup and wanted the correct cover to help keep the chips out of the gears.

I didn't have all the factory gears that are listed in the manual that would have shipped from the factory that would have been used I think for just a power slide and not threading. I was able to find what was missing and installed the baseline gears. Two 20t, two 64t, one 56t gears.

A lot of time was spent getting the gears to run correctly on the bushings.

Next up will be the apron assembly and when finished will complete the lathe restoration. Then we start on a motor solution :)

Dave
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Thanks Boswell!!!

I'm just a tinkerer in a garage having fun and learning :)

Dave

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Apron:

What a mess lol... before and after photos below...

Look at that travers assembly... it broke at some point and was welded together.

Today we will tackle the split but assembly and new brass half nuts. :)

Dave
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Hi Dave! Glad you decided to replace the headstock, I was going to suggest it many posts ago. The babbit situation would not have given a satisfactory result, and the roller bearings can be so easily adjusted for essentially zero runout with virtually zero effort. The ultimate no-brainer

I wanted to mention having a variable speed motor is a real plus. You might consider either a dc motor/controller or 3-phase + VFD system
It's really the cat's meow; once you use variable speed you'll be spoiled
-Mark
 
while you have the carriage off I'd suggest cutting some oil grooves and adding oil cups to both sides. See if you can fashion up some way wipers too. That'll allow you to go a little tighter on the gibs and still have very smooth movement. Worked a treat on my Atlas 618.
 
I am bummed that we won't be seeing babbitt pouring as part of this resto. I was really looking forward to that!
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Hi Mark

Yeah I guess that is the big conversation what is better on this lathe. The fact is I'm seeing just a flicker on my one thousand indicator runout. I'd guess I'm around 3 tenths or less. I already have a new 1 horsepower DC motor and will be using a speed controller.... more to come lol.

Pontiac... yeah I'm with yeah lol I was also wanting to learn the babbit pour however it just wasn't practical for me on this restoration however I'm sure I will have another project that will need the pour to share with people :) fyi love the baby face lol

Dave

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