Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
I made a shield for 2 reasons. One was that I had already seen it on youtube and second was because I had it off anyway because I was in my second so called rebuild. And I did see some small pieces in
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
I made list of improvements before I purchased here list. 1) 4 jaw machine back plate. 2) stead rest 3) carriage stop purchased from LMS 4) carriage lock 5) Install Aloris tool post 6) follower rest
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davesmith1800
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
No, but as I said, I did make this shield. More importantly, I've never had any problems or even the suspicion of a problem relating evidence of an issue caused by chips in the gears, in the
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Re: A Great Bit of Craftsman Machining
I an just glad it small. I have use lathes with 16" handwheel. No need for gym membership. I was wondering how would be to use small handwheel *nice*. Dave
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davesmith1800
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe ¨C Apron Swarf Shield
No need to overthink this. I glued a piece of a clear plastic report cover there with contact cement and it's worked fine for years. Mike Taglieri
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Miket_NYC
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe ¨C Apron Swarf Shield
I made list of improvements before I purchased here list. 1) 4 jaw machine back plate. 2) stead rest 3) carriage stop purchased from LMS 4) carriage lock 5) Install Aloris tool post 6) follower rest
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Re: A Great Bit of Craftsman Machining
My skills will seriously need to be much much better before attempting something like that. But again, for my needs, I may not ever need that much accuracy.? george
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Re: Morse tapper in tail stock
I have? morce of haft? inch? the bigger? I have but it is? on a morce? n3 my? late? have? only able to? get morce no1 a little ont maybe? I can made? a no1 but? maybe? also? the
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Jacques Savard
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
Here is how I quily fix tail stock quill . 1 - 5 morse tapper. Dave
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davesmith1800
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe ¨C Apron Swarf Shield
I tried several alternative for an Apron SWarf Shield: I firt tried the Phenom Engineering Shield ( http://www.phenomengineering.com/store/p1/Apron_Chip_Shield_for_Mini_Lathes.html ) : This is held in
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ChazzC <chaz-creswell@...>
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
I found early on a air gun is not your friend. It will blow chips every where like feed screws, bearing , gears, under bed ways and the list goes on. So air guns was band inside. They had to use a
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davesmith1800
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
I watch the video ?. I took him years to do few fixes that finish in December. The testing tail stock quill he did not lock quill for test. It only test in the lock position. The head stock bearing
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
Have you taken the skirt off and looked ?? george
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
While I made one of these for my lathe, I was already doing something that avoids the need for it, for way covers, and for leadscrew covers: I clean up after every machining session. I have seen a
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KURT
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A Great Bit of Craftsman Machining
Other members may have seen this, but it's new to me. Some top notch work with only the mini-lathe and drill press.? (Reminds me of back when I built the Sparey 5cc) The mini-lathe carriage handwheel
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Craig Hopewell
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
You guys are great!? That all made my morning coffee go by too fast! Dave -- I agree, finding good YT videos is hard, but when you get a good one, it's worth a lot!? Many I'll come back to later,
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Paul Fox
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
I found a big difference in YouTube. 20 years ago they where on mark. Today full of wind good luck finding a good one. Dave
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davesmith1800
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Re: "tuning up" a mini lathe
Yes.? Good YouTubes.? "Back in the day" we didn't really have those. I ran across this one I liked which is fast paced and he has links in the description to more detailed ones for each mod.? This
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: Import lathes
I remember reading several years back that a guy I think he was in England & when he unpacked his lathe there was a bag inside with several brand labels that the seller was supposed to put on the
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mike allen
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Re: Import lathes
It was a lot of reading. Basically you get pay for. American,? UK and Japanese lathes they have team after it is finish to tweak the lathe and you pay for this. The Chinese and Taiwan lathes are just
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davesmith1800
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