I R in here now!
I acquired one of the little AA style lathes for a song in a horsetrade
and have since disassembled and rebuilt it. The original owner had given it
to his middle-aged son about 20 years ago after a lot of use. Aside from
a few of the threading gears being chewed up (need to get replacements
sometime), it's in good shape. I've coupled it with a sirplus 1/6 HP motor
too big/small? It came with only the 4 jaw chuck. Any leads on a
reasonably priced 3 jaw?
I've acquired a buncha tooling via swapmeets and now only lack the time
to play with this lathe.
Borrowed one of the Lindsey books on engine lathes and found it lots better
than any of the machine shop handbooks, etc. for a 'dummy' education. If
anyone's interested, I'd be happy to post the title/author and purchase
info once I find the book :-)
Just bought a small steam engine kit as a XMAS present for nephews
and wish I had had a chance to duplicate it on the lathe first. Anyone have
info on kits or plans for these?
That's about enough for my intro to the list. Looking forward to some
words of wisdom......
Ed T.
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