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Dalton Lot 4

 

Hi everyone

I've just inherited a Dalton Lot 4 from my father in law. I've cleaned it up a little and it is numbered 424. An agricultural engineer used it before it sat in a farm shed for years getting slowly forgotten about. As far as I know he had it shipped over to the UK many years ago, and I guess it was him who made the stand and drive arrangement.

I've never used a lathe but have always wanted to! I am on a farm myself and for simple tasks i'm sure it will be handy.
No Dalton change gears came with it nor a tool holder. 2 gears did come with it - both adapted by inserting a metal sleeve to reduce the bore of the gears.? Now a few questions!:

Can anyone recommend a tool holder which will achieve the correct working height?
What change gears would have come with the lathe - is finding gears from different machines and sleeving them to fit a solution?
Any information / help to get me started with this piece of history would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Nathan

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Hi Nathan

OK first off change gears.? Dalton used a set of 15 gears for all threads you see on the thread chart.? You will only use a few of them.? The gears are 20 pitch and Boston as well as Browning still make change gears that will fit the lathe but they are? expensive.? ?As to a tool post the best one I have found is a quick change tool posts of the wedge type and the model needed for your lathe is the OXA size.? Also a set of five or seven insert tool holders in 3/8 or 10MM shank size will cover 90 percent of anything you will do with the lathe.? These insert tool holders are readily available on eBay and you will usually also find the OXA tool post sets.??

Also your lathe is a late 1914 or early 1915 built machine.? The only thing I see out of place is the cross slide hand wheel as it should be one like you see on the compound slide. Amazing you still have both back gear guards these are usually missing or broken on the early lathes.? You should have had a brass tag on either the bottom front casting of the tail stock or on the lower part of the gear guard door.? This tag would have given the company name and place of Mfg. You should also have a threading chart on the out side of the gear door.? In the past one big improvement to your lathe is that addition of the large oil cups for the spindle bearings.? You should find the spindle and its bearings in good shape if the cups have always been filled with oil.? You may find a felt wick that goes from inside the oil cup down a tube to the spindle bearings.? If so this is a really good set of oil cups.?

Picture included is of the OXA tool post and a holder that is also has a insert tool holder mounted in the holder.? You will also see there is a round spacer under the tool post this is required to get the full range of height adjustment of the tool post when mounted on a Dalton lathe.

Good luck to you Nathan and also there are a number of other Dalton owners in the UK.

Dennis

On Friday, July 23, 2021, 12:23:36 PM PDT, Nathan750@... <nathan750@...> wrote:


Hi everyone

I've just inherited a Dalton Lot 4 from my father in law. I've cleaned it up a little and it is numbered 424. An agricultural engineer used it before it sat in a farm shed for years getting slowly forgotten about. As far as I know he had it shipped over to the UK many years ago, and I guess it was him who made the stand and drive arrangement.

I've never used a lathe but have always wanted to! I am on a farm myself and for simple tasks i'm sure it will be handy.
No Dalton change gears came with it nor a tool holder. 2 gears did come with it - both adapted by inserting a metal sleeve to reduce the bore of the gears.? Now a few questions!:

Can anyone recommend a tool holder which will achieve the correct working height?
What change gears would have come with the lathe - is finding gears from different machines and sleeving them to fit a solution?
Any information / help to get me started with this piece of history would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Nathan

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