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From: daltonlathes@... [mailto:daltonlathes@...] On Behalf Of Dennis Turk
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:00 AM
To: daltonlathes@...
Subject: Re: [daltonlathes] Picture of the Lot 6 s/n 167

Hi Rob

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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.

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Rob I will send you? a link to one of these countershaft units the next time I see one on eBay.

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Turk

----- Original Message -----

From: big_libby

To: daltonlathes@...

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