Managed to bust my new lathe :/

I had a similar experience but with less catastrophic consequence. The interlock lever was broken but was easily repaired and no further problems.
Aaron


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Bronze weld. Brazing is for slip joints.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding this. When I think of bronze weld, I think of tig welding using silicone bronze and shielding gas. When I think of brazing I think of oxy-acet torch, bronze rod and flux. Both are capable of making strong joints. Harley Davidson used to braze their frames together.
 
I had a similar experience but with less catastrophic consequence. The interlock lever was broken but was easily repaired and no further problems.
Aaron

Aaron was that fixed with brazing?
 
I mostly use Low Fuming Bronze, with StaySilv Black Flux and this stuff is crazy strong just as strong as a weld in most cases.... I also do Tig brazing but its very easy to get the metal to hot, gas brazing is very forgiving....

During WW2 the USA was gas welding air planes together and the UK was gas brazing their planes.... Both are strong enough to fly!

Is this the part that is broken? The end of the gear selector handle? We maybe be able to just make a new tube then pin and braze it on the handle....
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Yep, that's exactly the part and area. If I had to fix it on my own, my plan would be to remake the circular part on the lathe, mill a flat on it and on the surviving cast iron, then either pin or bolt them together!

I've also thought about seeing if I could find a piece of steel cheap enough that I could just cut into shape and mill the ends( since those are the only important places), but that was kind of a last resort.
 
Perhaps I am misunderstanding this. When I think of bronze weld, I think of tig welding using silicone bronze and shielding gas. When I think of brazing I think of oxy-acet torch, bronze rod and flux. Both are capable of making strong joints. Harley Davidson used to braze their frames together.
Hello Chuck,
A lot of confusion arises from the terminology. I did my time in a English speaking former British colony so I am biased toward the English terms most of which have very deep historical roots. As far as I am concerned Brazing is a purely capillary action using a low melting temperature metal,(above 450 degrees Celsius as differentiated from Solders which melt below 450 degrees Celsius),and was historically done with Brass. Bronze Welding which is different metallurgically has similar working temperatures but is not as hot short and can easily be built up. Audel's on Welding Handbook makes this very clear. Think of the difference between using 'Easy-Flo' and Tobin Bronze.
I am unclear as to when the term Braze Welding came into being but it was definitely started in America. Here is one reference to that effect:
https://www.esabna.com/euweb/oxy_handbook/589oxy14_1.htm Prior to that Brazing and Bronze Welding meant two entirely different processes and everyone was on the same page around the world.
Here is some useful reference on Brazing: https://www.lucasmilhaupt.com/EN/Brazing-Academy/Brazing-Fundamentals.htm
I'm probably just being pedantic,(I get really annoyed by people who call Welsh Plugs 'frost plugs' for example), but I happen to think that terminology is very important.
 
Note* Having had a little rant about terminology I mucked up. Should have written Welch and not Welsh. Probably comes from mixing up ancestry with a family name so apologies for that.
 
Note* Having had a little rant about terminology I mucked up. Should have written Welch and not Welsh. Probably comes from mixing up ancestry with a family name so apologies for that.

Noooo those are called Freeze Plugs.... lol
 
Just about every lathe that has multiple feeds has interlocks to prevent you from engaging more than one feed at once. Even really old lathes. If it once had one, and it is broken or something, it should be repaired so parts do not get destroyed by engaging more than one at the same time. Don't just fix it, try to fix it so it can't happen again...

On second thought, looked up Reed-Prentice, formed in 1912, that is perhaps old enough to be when machines did not have to be smarter than people.
It would be interesting to see historical examples which show the advances of lathe abilities as they came into being. My guess is that half nuts came into use before power feeds. At some point power feed was added to a lathe with half nuts and within about the first 15 minutes of use someone managed to engage both at the same time and break the machine. The lockouts probably came into being because the manufacturer was getting complaints about machines breaking for exactly this reason and wanted to stop the nasty telegrams.

In other words, the intelligence of the user has very little to do with things going sideways. You can still find machines which don't lock out power feed with half nut use. But the manufacturers are on the other side of a giant ocean and they don't care, it is easy to ignore emails.
 
In other words, the intelligence of the user has very little to do with things going sideways.
Agreed, my original comment was tongue in cheek. The reality is Murphy's Law (Anything that CAN go wrong eventually WILL go wrong.) No matter how good we think we are, we all make mistakes.
 
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