Another toy
Sep 23, 2022 18:37:43 #
Sep 23, 2022 21:45:09 #
How many screws can you buy for the cost plus repairs for that sucker?
Sep 24, 2022 03:45:04 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
A tool I really needed to make small screws img ... (show quote)
Looks like a lucky find at a great price.
Sep 24, 2022 04:52:04 #
ImageCreator wrote:
How many screws can you buy for the cost plus repairs for that sucker?
I'll make you a deal, You find a 5-40 and I'll do the math and let you know
So far my cost is zero, and will remain that way.
BTW I was joking about the screw.
Sep 24, 2022 04:52:50 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Looks like it will make a lot of screws Frank!
Don
Don
Lol
Sep 24, 2022 05:02:07 #
Thorny Devil wrote:
Looks like a lucky find at a great price.
My son-in-law found, bought, delivered and put in my shop. I'm getting it cleaned up, right no you can stand next to without getting greasy.
I found the problem with the back gear after cleaning the gears of grease and metal chips (which were not the problem) The flat belt had been fasten together with bolts and nuts, the nuts were on the outside of the belt and they hit the back gear shaft knocking it out of gear, so making a new belt with proper fasteners is in the works, belt material N/C alligator lacing $3.00.
I am almost anal on machine functions working even if they will never used
, drives my S-i-L crazy Sep 24, 2022 08:41:40 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
My son-in-law found, bought, delivered and put in ... (show quote)
Just picturing running a belt joined with nuts and bolts makes me shudder just thinking about the damage to the pulleys not to mention hitting other exposed parts.
Sep 24, 2022 09:46:36 #
Sep 24, 2022 12:08:00 #
I have a few 5-40 1" socket head cap screws, black oxide and stainless.
Can spare a few.
Can spare a few.
Manglesphoto wrote:
A tool I really needed to make small screws img ... (show quote)
Sep 24, 2022 13:32:37 #
The lathe looks well used. On the other hand, the bright red oil can looks marvelous.
Sep 24, 2022 13:33:30 #
Sep 24, 2022 16:27:34 #
Lost Again
Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon
Manglesphoto wrote:
A tool I really needed to make small screws img ... (show quote)
Good score for a hundred bucks. Looks like a 8 inch direct thread 4 jaw chuck. An old overhead belt powered job. Please post the mfg. name, could be a South Bend. Would love to help you re-build but live in Oregon. I have a 18 by 80 inch Clausing Colchester I do gun and photo accessory work on. It looks like an 14 inch swing on yours, nice size. Why don't you just by 5-40 screws from Mcmaster Carr or someplace else? Oh...that (access) door on the left front is for stashing your 5th of whiskey, I think you might be able to fit a half gal of red mtn. there too in an emergency.
Sep 24, 2022 16:50:20 #
Lost Again
Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon
Thorny Devil wrote:
Just picturing running a belt joined with nuts and bolts makes me shudder just thinking about the damage to the pulleys not to mention hitting other exposed parts.
A lot of those old lathe belts were actually held together with heavy stapples back in the day. I got to help make some break cylinder parts for a friend's car back in the 1960s in a very old but fully functional shop in Etna Calif.
All the machinery in this shop was driven by belts running from arbors along the roof. You had to change speeds with a two by four piece of wood while the lathe was put in neutral as these arbors ran continuously. This shop was just like it was in the late 1800s and I had no camera with me to photograph it. We broke down at The Forks of the Salmon and had to be towed to Etna. At least the guy that owned the place was cool enough to let me use his shop when I told him I was a tool maker. He was a little reluctant at first...cause I had hair down to my hips back then.
Sep 24, 2022 20:07:09 #
Wow !!! Quite a machine. Looks pretty big for just making 5-40 machine screws, but just think about the possibilities it offers.
Sep 25, 2022 04:50:39 #
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