These lathes do not come on the market very often down under, so when I found it I snapped it up.
I had to bypass the 415v starter and wire the motor Delta for it to run on the inverter but run it did. Note to self first job this weekend is to move the inverter off the shelf and mount it on the wall.
It's in very good condition with minimal wear on the bed, I measured 0.02mm with an indicator base on the carriage indicating on the tailstock spindle, so far so good. Lead screw wear I could not measure and the feed shaft has about 0.05mm wear getting better.
The lathe is sat on 100mm square post offcuts ATM, this weekends job is to machine 6 feet to get it on the floor and leveled properly, but I chucked up my trusty bar with 2 75mm aluminium disks and took a light cut and over 200mm it cut a 0.02mm taper WOW.
Only things I have found so far are 1 broken bolt in the back of the RH crossslide gib and the crossslide nut which I have ordered a new one. I'll pull the gib when I replace the crossslide nut stick it in the mill and drill out the broken bolt.
The way wiper were missing so I made these from an old polyethylene cutting board as a temporary fix. I have ordered a couple bits of acetyl to make a set of wipers and I also need to machine covers.
I had to bypass the 415v starter and wire the motor Delta for it to run on the inverter but run it did. Note to self first job this weekend is to move the inverter off the shelf and mount it on the wall.
It's in very good condition with minimal wear on the bed, I measured 0.02mm with an indicator base on the carriage indicating on the tailstock spindle, so far so good. Lead screw wear I could not measure and the feed shaft has about 0.05mm wear getting better.
The lathe is sat on 100mm square post offcuts ATM, this weekends job is to machine 6 feet to get it on the floor and leveled properly, but I chucked up my trusty bar with 2 75mm aluminium disks and took a light cut and over 200mm it cut a 0.02mm taper WOW.
Only things I have found so far are 1 broken bolt in the back of the RH crossslide gib and the crossslide nut which I have ordered a new one. I'll pull the gib when I replace the crossslide nut stick it in the mill and drill out the broken bolt.
The way wiper were missing so I made these from an old polyethylene cutting board as a temporary fix. I have ordered a couple bits of acetyl to make a set of wipers and I also need to machine covers.