Hi Ron
Your mini lathe face plate came in on Friday. Looks really good and
should make a very nice Dalton face plate. I will get a spindle
adapter made up this next week and sent off to you. I will need
your mailing address so contact me off site.
Again thanks for setting up the sight for all of us old farts that
can barley use a computer let alone do anything constructive with
one."-)))
Has anyone heard from old fuzzy face Andy Sargent. Seams the moving
has gotten him down and I am afraid he is trapped under a pile of
packing boxes that crashed down on him somewhere in the basement.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAndy are you still with us."-))))
Well Monday I go up to Forward Air and pick up the crate that I
shipped John Glands lathe to him in. Seams its coming back with
another Dalton in it. After I get it Dave Kirk and I will put up a
list of spare parts that we have.
Turk
Hi Ron
The best your going to come up with is finding a suitable face plate
with a 1 inch thread and send it to me as I can open it up to the 1
1/4 - 12 thread. The miner diameter of a 1 1/4 - 12 is 1.156 so you
can open up a 1 inch 10 thread just fine either by single pointing
the thread or I do have a tap for cutting this thread. I do not
like to use the tap on a chuck back plate as it makes the thread a
little loser than I like for a chuck but it has worked well for a
face plate.
There were no other lathes I have ever found that used this thread
on the spindle nose.
I just got a nice 6 3/4 face plate with a 1 - 12 thread and it looks
just like a Dalton one I have but I have no idea of what it went
to. Just keep looking and you will come up with something.
Turk
Anyone know where I can find a lathe face plate that fits the nose
of a B-4. I think the thread is 1 1/4 x 12 TPI.
Ron Peeler
