Re: new guy - old 618
Were the Timken brgs an option when they first showed up in Atlas Lathes?Sort of like a deluxe version. Mine is a Timken brg 101.07403, circa 1944.? Granted this is a 12"-Jody
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Jody
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Re: new guy - old 618
Interesting. I knew about the oil recommendation changing, I never knew they were putting timkens in them as early as 1937. I wonder now if the timkens were sold as a high speed option, or if they
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mikehostalek
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Re: new guy - old 618
I've looked through a bunch of pdf's and a couple of original printed manuals. My original 1937 Atlas manual never mentions 618 or any other model number, as best I could tell, but it discusses both
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Don Newbold <d.o.newbold@...>
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Re: new guy - old 618
Welcome to the group. You'll find some great help here in the rebuild or refurb of your 618 and machining techniques.? Lot's f good guys here willing to help. Sorry I can't too much help out on the
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Jody
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Re: speakin of oilers & oil cups
Thanks Mike,I'll have to save this site.So when I rebuilt the lathe I'm not sure I was able to get the oil cups out. IIRC I think I pinched the top of one of them where the cover was out of line a
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Jody
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Re: speakin of oilers & oil cups
yep I need to replace a few on my 9A that were missing/destroyed when I tore it down ??? ??? animal
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mike allen
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Re: speakin of oilers & oil cups
Thanks, Animal. I think Jody isn't the only one who could use that link. I've got an Atlas TH42 & an MF mill, as well as a South Bend 10L lathe. Lots of Gits oilers among them.? Bill in OKC? Sent
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Bill in OKC too
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speakin of oilers & oil cups
ya may find one here with the clearance ya need for yer lathe Jody ??? ??? https://www.gitsmfg.com/catalog/oil-hole-covers/ ??? ??? animal
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mike allen
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new guy - old 618
Hello everyone! I picked up an old Atlas and have finally got around to messing with it. I got the bed and all the ways on the compound, cross-slide, and suck nice with some kroil and a dish scrubby
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mikehostalek
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
To be honest it was over three years ago that I purchased the parts and also ordered several other parts at the time, IIRC the set was @ $45.00. Clausing is fairly easy to deal with but you need to
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Ken H
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
Ken,?What? does? Clausing hit you up for a set?Might be "custom" , might be stock.Just curious.?Dave? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device null
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Dave Matticks
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Re: Concern with my Spindle
Hi Jody,?I just went down in the basement for a look.?I'd have to bring my .0001 indicator from work to be definitive but I kind of have zero.Radial or thrust.?Topped off the oil cups while I was
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Dave Matticks
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
my South Bend 9A has the same configuration , there are shim's in the slit between the front bottom of the? cap & the spindle housing .? there is a procedure online google "South Bend 9A head stock
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mike allen
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
Forgot to add, Welcome to the group Don.
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Ken H
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Re: Welcome to [email protected]
The bearings as Robert points out do not have shims nor is there a "cap" there is however more what could be described as a clamp (see photo, chuck side is the same). This clamp (please correct me if
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Ken H
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Re: Concern with my Spindle
AIR they are still available from the big suppliers. $$$ of course!? Bill in Boulder CO USA
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Bill Williams
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Re: Find on Craigslist
The tailstock on my 15" Sheldon is quite a beast, and getting it to move the first time in a session takes a little oomph. Once it has slid onto a film of oil, though, it glides with hardly more than
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Jon Elson
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Re: Concern with my Spindle
headstock uses a lot more oil than the cup to the right (toward the tailstock). Each has a felt purchased from Clausing. If remove the felt from the right cup, the oil runs through a bit more. I have
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Terry Lund
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Re: Find on Craigslist
That will be some good core exercise moving that tailstock.? LOL.-Jody
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Jody
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Re: Concern with my Spindle
That's pretty cool looking.? On the 12" the belt adjust knob/bar goes right over the top of the rear oil cup.? I actually have to lift the knob/bar up to put oil in the cup now.? I would have to
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Jody
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