congrats on your fine lathe !! ... a lot of the fun with these old machines is in getting them going again ... ...and i bet you could trade that spiffy collet closer at least even-up for a standard wh

just for reference, i have a friend that has a heavy 10 ... but it has a d3 chuck, and we think it takes MT4.5 spindle centers. it also has about a 1.25 inch spindle hole.. kind of a rare beast, appar

have to mention another good use for carbide tools ... cutting down shanks on HSS drill bits that are too large to go into the tailstock chuck ... with carbide you don't have to worry about how hard t

i might mention that most inexpensive brazed carbide tools are also poorly done. they can be be ground with a diamond wheel to be pretty useful ... especially for roughing and for some interrupted cut

hi Mark ... well, perhaps your 12 hours shot to " heck " has benefitted a few more hundred of us on-lookers ... a collective getter-smarter thing ... on behalf of our fellow students out here, i say *

if you create that simple little gear checker i mentioned earlier you will see how they work for you. my company made a lot of gears and used that simple checker for commercial quality gears, which yo

... you can check your home-made gear by using a known good gear of the same dp and angle... calculate the theoretical pitch diameters ( book numbers ) of each gear and make a little jig with center p

Whoa ! ... first of all, you don't need an axa QC tool post to do most anything you are going to make 1 or 2 of on a 9 inch. i ran a 9 Logan for 3 years and made runs of a few dozen when starting my b

upon further review ... and a cold pepsi ... as a 40 year expert craftsman, i never admit to mistakes ... but a certain dumbutt made a teensy error and now i can happily let you know that Southbend ha

oh no !! .. i needed to grind a 1.5 degree angle on a form boring bar ... so i set my trusty compound angle to 1.5 degrees and dialed the compound past a dial indicator an inch ... great, 0.012 taper

""" WANTED: Bent, busted, rusted, and/or generally dysfunctional "C&R Eligible" firearms """ how about a bent, rusted, and/or generally dysfunctional Lathe Operator ? ... i gots one of those ... ken

if the upper spindle gear is supposed to be 20 instead of 40 ..... the thread pitch would be off by 2 - 1 , not 13 per cent. and a 9-pitch lead screw could only cut a few useful threads. interesting.

on my 13 incher, i use black chain oil on my gears and gear shafts ... it sticks ...and contains moly, for extra lube. the moly embeds in the metal and is not a bad dry lube all by itself. i even spra

... hey, since i have it, i am using Klotz go-cart oil on the ways ... guessing about 20 wt at room temp. i use black chain oil on the gears themselves, it has moly and sticks really well. also on sha

Magnaturn ... i have one that was working when i shut it off in 2006. has 6 ft. air barfeed. sw iowa ... pm me if interested.

hi ... about a 1986 Magnaturn ... sw iowa, " running ok when i shut it off " ... 6 ft. bar feeder and chuck. thanks.

don't they still make a small chuck that has a 5c shank ? i think they were about a 4 or 5 inch chuck, but might work for reverse threading, other light jobs.

i have a 612 magnaturn that was running when i retired about 8 years ago ... it was down to the last available axis driver board in the world other than ebay used parts. heh. i see now retrofits are a

remember that 1/8 stock probably won't go into a 1/8 ball bearing. heh, don't ask me how i know. 5c collets take internal threaded stops ... kind of a nut with a long bolt, could easily make in-shop.

Rusnok m70 collet and oyster cracker ... heh ... ken