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Re: H Gerstner Oak Tool Chest for Sale

 

Timothy,?
It has?7 Drawers Total and The open top. It looks just like new even though I bought it in 1968.
I have pictures I took today. If you can give me your email I can send you the pictures.?
Dick




On Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:50 PM, Timothy Jump via groups.io <t1jump@...> wrote:

Hi Dick,

How many drawers in the H-Gerstner?


-T. Jump

On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 11:53?AM OldToolmaker via <old_toolmaker=[email protected]> wrote:
I will be selling?my H-Gerstner Oak tool chest. Perfect Condition?
It is the 20¡± wide model.
If anyone is interested please contact me.
I am located in Buffalo Minnesota.
Dick





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Re: H Gerstner Oak Tool Chest for Sale

 

Hi Dick,

How many drawers in the H-Gerstner?


-T. Jump

On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 11:53?AM OldToolmaker via <old_toolmaker=[email protected]> wrote:
I will be selling?my H-Gerstner Oak tool chest. Perfect Condition?
It is the 20¡± wide model.
If anyone is interested please contact me.
I am located in Buffalo Minnesota.
Dick




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H Gerstner Oak Tool Chest for Sale

 

I will be selling?my H-Gerstner Oak tool chest. Perfect Condition?
It is the 20¡± wide model.
If anyone is interested please contact me.
I am located in Buffalo Minnesota.
Dick




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Re: Refurbished Unimat SL for sale.

 

No, it is not a steel model. It is a Unimat SL. SL stands for Super Light. It is an aluminum-magnesium alloy.
Re: Refurbished Unimat SL for sale.

 

? ? ?If this a steel model, it is worth more.....


On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 9:10?AM Bruno via <bmstj=[email protected]> wrote:
I have a Unimat SL for sale. It has been refurbished. The machine has been completely dismantled and cleaned. The spindle bearings have been regreased. The countershaft roller was fitted with new bearings (the old bearings were no longer usable due to lack of lubrication)
A new tailstock sleeve was installed.?
The lathe chuck was dismantled, cleaned and reassembled with fresh lubrication. All feed spindles were cleaned and reassembled with thrust washers.
The machine is driven by a 24 V DC Dunkermotor.
The machine was repainted before reassembly.
New PU drive belts were fitted.
Re: Refurbished Unimat SL for sale.

 

That's a beautiful lathe!

John


On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 9:10?AM Bruno via <bmstj=[email protected]> wrote:
I have a Unimat SL for sale. It has been refurbished. The machine has been completely dismantled and cleaned. The spindle bearings have been regreased. The countershaft roller was fitted with new bearings (the old bearings were no longer usable due to lack of lubrication)
A new tailstock sleeve was installed.?
The lathe chuck was dismantled, cleaned and reassembled with fresh lubrication. All feed spindles were cleaned and reassembled with thrust washers.
The machine is driven by a 24 V DC Dunkermotor.
The machine was repainted before reassembly.
New PU drive belts were fitted.
Large Collection of DB200 parts and accessories for sale

 

I am selling my entire collection of DB200 cast iron parts and accessories for sale. No shiping do to weight. I am located in Buffalo,Minnesota?

Dick




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Refurbished Unimat SL for sale.

 

I have a Unimat SL for sale. It has been refurbished. The machine has been completely dismantled and cleaned. The spindle bearings have been regreased. The countershaft roller was fitted with new bearings (the old bearings were no longer usable due to lack of lubrication)
A new tailstock sleeve was installed.?
The lathe chuck was dismantled, cleaned and reassembled with fresh lubrication. All feed spindles were cleaned and reassembled with thrust washers.
The machine is driven by a 24 V DC Dunkermotor.
The machine was repainted before reassembly.
New PU drive belts were fitted.
Re: Unimat 3 conversion

 

Excellent.
I also fitted a 24v scooter motor and timing belt, but without your nice cowling.
If anyone with a 3D printer is interested, the motor mount is here on Thingiverse.
I'm thinking about making the scooter motor interchangeable with a NEMA 23 (or bigger) stepper motor, to allow for indexing and
possible an electronic gearbox for screw cutting.
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Mike
Unimat 3 conversion

 

I've just finished renovating my Unimat 3.
When I got it it wasn't in a good state, someone had tried to change it to a 24v motor using a 3 amp power brick, but had done a bad job.
They had taken off the metal plate the hold the motor etc and replaced it with a small electrical box that flexed so I had to add a bracket to hold the motor.
The drive was via a round belt single pulley and they had filed the lathe spindle to get the pulley on.
I turned the spindle so I could fit a timing belt and fixed the rest of it up and used it like this until recently.
I scrapped an FDM 3D printer that had blown the main board, so I took out the 24v 15 amp and used that with other bits I had for this latest conversion.
I 3D printed a new housing for the 24v power supply and also added a new 3D printed hosing for the drive.
It works really well now, more power and smoother.
Photos of before and after.
Lez?

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Re: Login

 

I have full access to the group website.
I am paring down some of ?my?tools and equipment of late including all my Unimat equipment. I have all my Kennedy tool boxes on the market also. I will also be selling my Unimat Quick change tool set.
Dick





On Saturday, April 19, 2025, 9:25 AM, OldToolmaker via groups.io <old_toolmaker@...> wrote:

I am now able to log into Group.io
Dick




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Re: DB/SL bed bars to centre dimensions

 

Since it is a steady you don't need super precise dimensions except for the bar spacing, which is 40 mm. From memory the spindle is offset 10 mm towards the front - I'm sure of that. I don't have a note of the spindle height, but if you put something flat across the bars and measure the height to the point of a dead centre (or any bit of bar machined to a point) you can get a ruler measurement and do the sums: 6 mm + thickness of flat + ruler measurement. That should be accurate enough.
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Somewhere I have a drawing showing the positions, but I can't find it right now. I think I measured the height sing the method above, but put a known diameter rod in the chuck and measured with a digital caliper, then did the sums.
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My SL is now in Australia, so I can't check the measurements, but I'm sure of the 40 mm bar centres and the 10 mm offset. I must sort through my DB/SL drawings and get them in some sort of order, weed out the duplicates, and put them in the Files.
DB/SL bed bars to centre dimensions

 

I'm being a bit lazy but doing an accurate measurement seems like a bit of a pain...
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Does anyone have the dimensions (or a drawing) showing how the bed bar position relates to the lathe spindle (or tailstock!) centre line please?
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I've been looking through the files section and found the bar diameter and spacing but not how the bars are positioned with respect to the centre.
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I'm looking at modifying a Taig steady BTW and want to draw up the modifications that I will need to make?
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Thanks in advance.
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Regards, Andy
Re: English translation of U3 book, and looking for two other Emco publications

 

Thanks Bruno!

The Laidlaw-Dickson book is already available in English,?ISBN?9780852425916:?
In fact, it's the bibliography?from that book that has me looking for these two other titles (nobody has yet said they have a copy of either):
? "Emco Unimat Basic Course Instruction Manual"
? "Emco Programmed Exercises"

That second one by Wingrove is perhaps my favorite Unimat book! It's the closest to a course I've found. I can work on scanning it to upload.

Cheers,

Joel

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 10:37?AM Bruno via <bmstj=[email protected]> wrote:
Another book by Gerald Wingrove is also in my collection.
¡°Unimat Lathe Projects¡± Published in 1979 ISBN: 0 904568 20 2?
by New Cavendish Books.
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Re: English translation of U3 book, and looking for two other Emco publications

 

Another book by Gerald Wingrove is also in my collection.
¡°Unimat Lathe Projects¡± Published in 1979 ISBN: 0 904568 20 2?
by New Cavendish Books.
?
Re: English translation of U3 book, and looking for two other Emco publications

 

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 06:08 PM, Herman de Leeuw wrote:
Glad that you like the group effort! However, I would expect that EMCO also produced an English version of its own.
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Being myself used to work in a multilingual environment, I never cared whether books would be in English, French, German, Italian or even Arabic for that matter, all version would be fine with me. So I never Carrefour to have an English version. However, I still would like to think that there is one.
So just in case anyone would happen to have that English version, please feel encouraged to scan and share.
?

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I have ¡°The book about the UNIMT2 by Laidlaw-Dickson. It was published by the German Alba-Verlag in 1979 under ISBN: 3-87094-424-2.
The book has 105 pages. Scanning it is very time-consuming.
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Pinol feed gear

 

The Pinol drive on my Unimat MK 4 had caries. It was already missing several tooth segments. There are a few suppliers online who still sell such parts, but the freight costs were too high.?

I ordered 1 pinion with 10 teeth from E-Bay. I needed a total of 2 sprockets for a Pinol drive. These are 10 mm long without hub and grub screw. The rest of the material was still available in the stock.

The shaft was turned in the collet chuck. The pinions were drilled out to ?5 mm and reamed. All parts were joined together with Loctite High Strength and the two gear wheels were aligned with the teeth. ?After the adhesive had hardened, the transitions between the two gears were smoothed with a very fine needle file.
Re: Unimat For Sale

 

Just send me an email.
That is all there is to it.
Dick




On Saturday, April 19, 2025, 8:29 PM, Keith S. Angus via groups.io <keithsangus@...> wrote:

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Re: Unimat For Sale

 

To be more precise, when you hit the REPLY button the standard window opens. At the top there is a small box labelled To, and in the box you will see Group & Sender. If you click on that you will then have a choice of:
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Re: Unimat For Sale

 

Just FYI.? You should see a "Reply to Sender" choice at the bottom of the message.? That makes it private.

Also, if you go to the Groups.io site to the message and click "Reply", for the TO box you have the choice of:

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On Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 12:15:57 PM PDT, Eugene Lenarz via groups.io <evlenarz@...> wrote:


I don't know how to contact you off the group. ?I may be interested in the Unimat. ?My email address is evlenarz@.... ?Thanks.

Gene

On Saturday, April 19, 2025, 11:10:05 AM CDT, OldToolmaker via groups.io <old_toolmaker@...> wrote:


I have a complete Unimat DB200 for sale if anyone in the group is interested. Many accessories.
I am west of Buffalo, Minnesota.
If interested contact me off the group via email and we can discuss.
Dick
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