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My lathe is a Dalton B-6. It has an 8 1/4" swing and a 36 inch bed.
I got lucky with my lathe in that it came with several accessories.
It came with an 8" face plate, a four inch 3 jaw chuck with reverse
jaws, a six inch 3 jaw, a six inch 4 jaw, nose pieces for both 3c and
4c collets, a collet draw bar with adapter for both 3c and 4c,
threading dial, a full set of change gears (except the 125t and 127t
for metric), a set of Dalton wrenches, a spindle thread protector,
steady rest, following rest, and the adapter and tool rests for wood
turning.

The B-6 has a worm gear and a clutch in the apron that is driven by a
slotted shaft. There is a collar on the slotted shaft that can be
set to use the auto feed stop on the carriage. With the change gears
set to cut 72 TPI, the clutch will feed the carriage at .004 per
revolution. I had some modifications made to the lathe that make it
easier to use. Dennis Turk rebuilt the saddle and top slide. He put
a new lead screw and nut in the cross slide. He also installed
a .200 by .001 micrometer dial on the cross slide and a .100 by .001
micrometer dial on the compound slide. As you know, it's a real pain
using the original micrometer dials.

I'll try to put some pics in the album section later.

Jim Bonner

Jim

You wrote that "There is a collar on the slotted shaft that can be
set to use the auto feed stop on the carriage."

How does this work, and is it just on the B-6 or was it also
available on the B-4

Ron Peeler


--- In daltonlathes@..., "jimbnnr" <bogyjim@...> wrote:

My lathe is a Dalton B-6. It has an 8 1/4" swing and a 36 inch

bed.

I got lucky with my lathe in that it came with several

accessories.

It came with an 8" face plate, a four inch 3 jaw chuck with reverse
jaws, a six inch 3 jaw, a six inch 4 jaw, nose pieces for both 3c

and

4c collets, a collet draw bar with adapter for both 3c and 4c,
threading dial, a full set of change gears (except the 125t and

127t

for metric), a set of Dalton wrenches, a spindle thread protector,
steady rest, following rest, and the adapter and tool rests for

wood

turning.

The B-6 has a worm gear and a clutch in the apron that is driven by

a

slotted shaft. There is a collar on the slotted shaft that can be
set to use the auto feed stop on the carriage. With the change

gears

set to cut 72 TPI, the clutch will feed the carriage at .004 per
revolution. I had some modifications made to the lathe that make

it

easier to use. Dennis Turk rebuilt the saddle and top slide. He

put

a new lead screw and nut in the cross slide. He also installed
a .200 by .001 micrometer dial on the cross slide and a .100

by .001

micrometer dial on the compound slide. As you know, it's a real

pain

using the original micrometer dials.

I'll try to put some pics in the album section later.

Jim Bonner

Ron,

As far as I know, the carriage auto feed stop was only available on the
B-6. If there were any later models produced, I would imagine they
would have had it also. The B-4s didn't have a second shaft to drive a
worm gear. Although Rob Libby's B-5 has a second shaft, I don't see
the drum and collar for the auto feed stop.

The way it works is that the slotted shaft that drives the worm gear is
spring loaded toward the tail stock end. The spring is located in a
drum at the headstock end of the shaft. The collar can be locked with
a set screw anywhere along the shaft. When the carriage contacts the
collar, the collar moves the shaft toward the head stock end until it
disengages with it's drive gear. Naturally, when the shaft stops
turning, the worm gear stops turning and the carriage stops. I was
surprised how well it works.

Jim