Barnes sliding gap bed lathe 14-24 about 1917

[Dastardly]

Hi everyone I new to this forum and I just bought this lathe, it looks a little rough but complete and after a few repairs it will be up and running again, I had to manufacture the bottom leadscrew split nut as it was missing and replace a gear from the cross power feed, I pulled apart the tailstock and oiled her and that is now free and working all the geartrain is there just need to replace the headstock thrust bearings and get a new motor so hi Craig

 

[Dastardly]

 

[FOMOGO]

Keep us posted on your project. It's always cool to watch these Phoenixes rise from the ashes. Cheers, Mike

 

[markba633csi]

Nice old beast- what color do you have in mind for paint?
-Mark

 

[Dastardly]

Hi Mark I’m still undecided but leaning towards black with gold hi light, I think these old Barnes lathes were originally black Craig

 

[Dastardly]

Hi everyone well today I removed the headstock cone pulley assembly along with the chuck, everything came apart easily and once the bearing caps were removed I couldn’t believe how good the bearings are no need to scrap, no score marks at all it was a welcome surprise, whoever the previous owners were they looked after her at least mechanically anyway which is evident to being zero rust and being so dirty because of plenty of oil use.
I have been busy getting the old paint of with both paint stripper and power tools it’s coming off layer by layer I also removed the gears off the banjo to allow easier access to strip paint, I’m not going to remove the feed gearbox as it’s all working and clean so I will strip the paint off around it just not behind it, and it’s never going to be in a museum so I won’t tell anyone if you won’t, more tomorrow and I’m leaning towards a dark grey, I was told this lathe was originally grey but it may be black yet it will let me know when the time is ready Craig

 

[Dastardly]

Hi well all together now, I’m using a little 1/3 hp motor to run her until my new 2hp 4pole 1400rpm motor arrives I even did a little turning today I made some thrust bushes out of pvc just so I got the sizes correct before ordering or making a new set from bronze it’s for the headstock the original were a fibre like material and they had collapsed before I acquired the lathe.
I made a new 1/2 split nut for screw cutting and that works well and the power feed works after I cleaned the engage clutch
And she has a new colour, she is now machinery grey epoxy enamel with black.
I gave her a good oil and can’t believe how well she runs, a little noisy with the gear train engaged, the tumbler gears make the most noise being straight cut gears, a fellow restorer sent me a video, he has the same lathe, so I could compare the noise and they sound very similar, I don’t know how they run a shop with lineshafts and dozens of machines in the past it must have been deafening, so I gave myself a year or two to get her working but she drove me hard and completed her in months not years I very pleased with the out come, a little bit of history lives again Craig

 

[Dastardly]

Some pictures of her being painted looks way better in real life rather then the pictures Craig

 

[Dastardly]

Tomorrow the shed is being cleaned if I don’t turn something square into something round thanks for looking Craig

 

[Dastardly]

Hi everyone well my lathe is painted and back together and I even turned down a bit of brass for a punch, everything is working as for now I have a small 1/3hp motor running it off the jack shaft and I have on order a 2hp 4pole motor to fit when it gets here, I turned down some pvc to use as headstock thrust washers just to try and make sure the size was correct it’s more of a spacer then a thrust bearing, the power feed is working after a bit of adjusting and the repaired split nut is working for the screw cutting, now screw cutting I’m having a little trouble understanding the chart on the lathe it imperial of corse but the quick change gearbox is for metric threads, I was trying to work out what I had to do to turn an acme thread 1” diameter with 8 tpi I will try and add a picture of the chart and gearbox chart, I don’t know if I have the correct gears but I can’t understand the chart to see which gear goes where Craig