I use the handwheel on the carriage. I only use the handwheel on the leadscrewfor accurate steps. Jim B.

Look at the ARMY manual. If the part number has “nk” in it it isused on BOTH the Workshop 9” and the 10K. If the part number has only “n” in it, it’sonly used on the Workshop

Excerpt from http://www.lathes.co.uk/boxford/ About Boxford lathes which are are clone of Southbend Changewheels and English/metric and metric/English conversions "English" threading Lathes with

Jim, Do you hand feed the carriage or use a leadscrew handwheel instead of power feeding?

I missed that there are different dps. Are there different internals to the work shop and light 10 gear boxes? The different pitches would mean that all of the gears inside the box are of that

Why are both a 20 and a 24 tooth gear listed? Does a different in the gear box end of the lead screw gear require a different spur gear on the gear box end?

Hi, 1 5/8 " = 1.625 20t gear =13.5DP 24t gear=16DP Regards jb

Mike, who won't listen, in Canada (only because I get tired of arguing rather quickly not because I'm wrong). Yes you are jb

Jim, I second what you've said. I want to add a caveat for anybody who's in a similar situation and is contemplating investing money in a set of gears: if you have both a lathe with a QCGB

NO. The 127/XX transposing gear WILL workEXACTALLY for ALL metric pitches. Yes you will need to change stud gears, attimes, with an imperial gearbox. If you are using a GB lathe. Yes a

Give it up John Dunbar

I guess what I'm saying is the 127 gear will work for only one pitch in metric. All the other threads would need there own set up of gears. Changing gears on a lathe is a pain to say the least. I

Mario, If the pictures were taken after demasking, probably you should have taken a month instead of a week to mask the machine. I also hope that all the machined surfaces were adequately protected

As a follow up. everything worked and I ended up with a very good fitting thread. Thanks, Glenn

A week long, a couple of hours everyday, just for masking. Another one to demasking and degluing :o) Mario

I tried David, I really did :) allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"

Soupy51 <soupy51@...> writes: Mechanical advantage doesn't break the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. You can increase your force/torque but only by decreasing your distance/speed. The power output is

Thanks for the rant but I fail to see the difference between cutting imperial threads on a non gear box lathe and cutting metric threads with transposition gears other than the half nuts must remain

JB If I stirred up this I should be able to respond to all the clammer. A metric lathe will cut all the different pitches, an SAE will cut all inch pitches because they are capable of the divisions.

Wow- there are alot of surfaces there which should have been masked off. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"