Hi Rob
?
The drive unit on Jim Bonners Lot 6 is actually a
South Bend? fixit countershaft from the mid thirties.? These were used
on the 405 workshop lathe and also the 420 toolmakers lathe.? Rob any of
the SB rear bench mount countershafts will work with your lot 5 lathe.?
There are I think four different ones but the most common is the adjustable
model used for sixty years.? Tons of them out there.? They all use a
7/8 shaft so your Dalton cone pulley will fit these just fine.? The large
pulley on them that the motor drives is just the right size and its easy to get
the 250 to 300 rpm you need for your Dalton.? With the countershaft running
at 300 you will have a safe rpm range for your Dalton.?? Somewhere in
one of the catalogs I think I read that Dalton used a countershaft speed of
250.? 250 rpm was the standard line shaft speed for setting up an overhead
ceiling line shaft system in the old days.
?
Rob I will send you? a link to one of these
countershaft units the next time I see one on eBay.
?
Turk
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:00
AM
Subject: [daltonlathes] Picture of the
Lot 6 s/n 167
Hell all,
It's been awhile, I have not had a chance to get back to work
on my
lathe. But I was looking thru the Photos and saw the phots of the
Lot 6
s/n 167 and the drive unit on it.
Atr this point i have a motor
mounted to a alum plate hinged on the
beach and need to come up with a
better way of driving the lathe. Are
there better pictures showing the
setup of that drive unit? It looks
likek the motor is sitting between the
lathe and the pulley and would
be a good design for my layout. So any
pictures and dimension would be
great.
thanks
Rob
Libby
