My Newest Toy
My Newest Toy
Since there's so many lathe discussions going over here in the Buy, Sell or Trade section, I guess this is as good a place as any to show off my newest toy.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0198368177
Here's an old Sears & Roebuck ad that tells a little more about it.
One of the reasons why I liked this one is because the headstock is threaded at 3/4-16 -- the same as my 10x14, so I already have a four-jaw chuck to fit it.
Right now, my current mindset is to move the 10x14 over to my girlfriends and turn stems over there in the evenings. And to keep this one here at my house to do more stummels and such on.
This one wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but $126 delivered to my door was just too hard to pass up.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0198368177
Here's an old Sears & Roebuck ad that tells a little more about it.
One of the reasons why I liked this one is because the headstock is threaded at 3/4-16 -- the same as my 10x14, so I already have a four-jaw chuck to fit it.
Right now, my current mindset is to move the 10x14 over to my girlfriends and turn stems over there in the evenings. And to keep this one here at my house to do more stummels and such on.
This one wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but $126 delivered to my door was just too hard to pass up.
Robert... please let me know how you do rehabbing this lathe. I have nearly the exact machine at home, sitting on the floor doing nothing. I have zero experience with these so I've been sitting on it hoping to find some use for it. It's a Dunlap, in decent shape, I just don't know how to outfit it or where to get parts I might need. It was a freebie from a buddy of mine. My email is keynin74@yahoo.com if you want to yak about it off the forum. Let me know.
Matt
Matt
Like I said, I already have a 6-inch 4-jaw chuck threaded at 3/4-16. At one time, I snooped around on Ebay for such a chuck and, wonder-of-wonders, it's actually cheaper if you buy one new from Sears.
Matt, you will have to verify the threads on yours with a caliper: the large diameter on the threads should be close to .750 inches, and you should be able to count either 8 threads in a half inch or 4 threads in a quarter inch. Something like that, anyway. If it's anywhere close to that, it should be good.
If that is the threading on yours and you want to get creative about chucking stuff up, you can buy a tap on ebay for about $15 to thread things for 3/4-16. So you could theoretically make your own mounting plates, etc.
If you're only turning round stock, and your headstock has an #1 Morse taper, you can get one of these little jewels. I have the exact same thing with a #2 Morse taper, and it works well for holding stock, provided you're using a live center at the other end.
I like a live center without a lot of shoulder on it, like this one here. This one is for a #1 Morse taper, but they're available in other sizes, too.
And a person could mount a cheap cross slide and fit in some sort of cutting tool and use it for turning tenons.
But for me, it would never be worth the trouble of bolting and unbolting such a thing, as I can turn a tenon with chisels in less than a half an hour, including the time it takes to stop every few minutes and take measurements.
Unless I could use such a cross slide as a chisel rest, too, it would just be in my way all the time.
Matt, you will have to verify the threads on yours with a caliper: the large diameter on the threads should be close to .750 inches, and you should be able to count either 8 threads in a half inch or 4 threads in a quarter inch. Something like that, anyway. If it's anywhere close to that, it should be good.
If that is the threading on yours and you want to get creative about chucking stuff up, you can buy a tap on ebay for about $15 to thread things for 3/4-16. So you could theoretically make your own mounting plates, etc.
If you're only turning round stock, and your headstock has an #1 Morse taper, you can get one of these little jewels. I have the exact same thing with a #2 Morse taper, and it works well for holding stock, provided you're using a live center at the other end.
I like a live center without a lot of shoulder on it, like this one here. This one is for a #1 Morse taper, but they're available in other sizes, too.
And a person could mount a cheap cross slide and fit in some sort of cutting tool and use it for turning tenons.
But for me, it would never be worth the trouble of bolting and unbolting such a thing, as I can turn a tenon with chisels in less than a half an hour, including the time it takes to stop every few minutes and take measurements.
Unless I could use such a cross slide as a chisel rest, too, it would just be in my way all the time.
This is great. So I got curious about mine after reading about yours. I'm looking at the beastie and preparing to unscrew the spur center that's on the headstock.. thinking it WOULD just unscrew off the spindle. No siree. The headstock spindle is simply a round shaft with one side flattened - so the spur center's set screw can hold the center in place. Not quite sure what can be done with it at this point short of making all the spinning parts run smooth, hooking it up to a motor and using it for an interesting sanding station
Cross feed for wood lathe
I have an xy cross feed I used to use on my wood lathe. It has a toolholder for square metal lathe cutters and allows you to make controlled cuts for using the lathe like a metal lathe if any one is interested. I was going to put it on ebay.
max
max
Re: Cross feed for wood lathe
Somebody had better want that, it's what these guys with these Sears lathes need. I think Delta has an attachment like this. Matt, I'm not sure yours is the "convertible" model, which has, among other things, a tailstock that can be adjusted from side to side for centering. That doesn't matter for woodturning, which is usually done between centers anyway. For drilling from the tailstock, though, the centering feature is pretty useful.max wrote:I have an xy cross feed I used to use on my wood lathe. It has a toolholder for square metal lathe cutters and allows you to make controlled cuts for using the lathe like a metal lathe if any one is interested. I was going to put it on ebay.
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It took me awhile to understand what you were saying. So whatever you put on the spindle slides on and holds in place with a setscrew? Is that correct?hazmat wrote:This is great. So I got curious about mine after reading about yours. I'm looking at the beastie and preparing to unscrew the spur center that's on the headstock.. thinking it WOULD just unscrew off the spindle. No siree. The headstock spindle is simply a round shaft with one side flattened - so the spur center's set screw can hold the center in place. Not quite sure what can be done with it at this point short of making all the spinning parts run smooth, hooking it up to a motor and using it for an interesting sanding station
If that is the case, you might be able to look into fabricating some sort of workable setup, but you will definitely have to get creative. It would probably be real easy to come up with a way to turn stems, but figuring out a way to mount a 3 or 4 jaw chuck would take some doing.
One thing you might want to look at is Shopsmith attachments. Shopsmiths have a similar spindle-and-setscrew setup, so you might be able to use some, like, 5/8" O.D. X 1/2" I.D. bushings to mount Shopsmith attachments on your lathe?
Just wondering.
If you do get a cross slide vise, do yourself a favour and spend a few bucks more. I had that exact same Harbor Freight vise. It went to the recycle dump pretty quickly. In short, a POS.pierredekat wrote:And a person could mount a cheap cross slide and fit in some sort of cutting tool and use it for turning tenons.
Unless I could use such a cross slide as a chisel rest, too, it would just be in my way all the time.
This looks to be a bit better: http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PMAK ... TPG=INLMK3
You can get a wood turning tool rest that mounts in the T-slots, and/or a tool post.
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That's exactly correct, Robert.pierredekat wrote:It took me awhile to understand what you were saying. So whatever you put on the spindle slides on and holds in place with a setscrew? Is that correct?
I'm creative artistically, not mechanically, unfortunately. I'm afraid I wouldn't know where to start, though I did do some noodling on it with a friend who knows a thing or two last night.If that is the case, you might be able to look into fabricating some sort of workable setup, but you will definitely have to get creative. It would probably be real easy to come up with a way to turn stems, but figuring out a way to mount a 3 or 4 jaw chuck would take some doing.
Stems are most likely right out the window, too. There's no throughput on the headstock so I'd be in exactly the same situation I'm in with my Taig, which works fine for hand-cutting but not for working on prefabs.
That could be a possibility, but having spent nothing on the lathe, I'm leery of getting into too much money rehabbing it. As soon as I hit the $200 mark, I'd have been better off investing in something new or used and workable.One thing you might want to look at is Shopsmith attachments. Shopsmiths have a similar spindle-and-setscrew setup, so you might be able to use some, like, 5/8" O.D. X 1/2" I.D. bushings to mount Shopsmith attachments on your lathe?
Just wondering.
It's really no biggy. When I saw yours posted I got a little excited because I've been getting stonewalled trying to find info on mine. Even if it'll never turn a single stummel, I can still turn it into a sanding station. I may even shorten the bed a bit so it doesn't take up so much space but stays stable.
Thanks for your input on this. Much, much appreciated!!
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Re: Cross feed for wood lathe
Max, if you don't mind, could you send me a pic or two? I'm interested in this.max wrote:I have an xy cross feed I used to use on my wood lathe. It has a toolholder for square metal lathe cutters and allows you to make controlled cuts for using the lathe like a metal lathe if any one is interested. I was going to put it on ebay.
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Sorry Max, I forgot that I reject images at my server. I got tired of getting spam with images of guys suffering from various forms of phallic gigantus and the skanky porn stars that are impressed by such things.
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