Re: Threading Gear Confusion
Thanks Robert for the background on yourself. I myself have always wondered where and how you became so knowledgeable on these wonderful machines. You are amazing. Bob Duvall
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Robert Duvall
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#102691
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Re: Threading Gear Confusion
I forgot to add that the ¡°101¡± in the Atlas change gear part numbers being the same as the ¡°101¡± in the Sears part numbers is just a coincidence. Until the Clausing hands began to get the
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Robert Downs
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#102690
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Re: Threading Gear Confusion
Scanning, printing and selling manuals on WW-II, Korean War and Vietnam War US radio manuals has been a business of mine since 1999, and for many years before that I made and sold copies. Around the
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Robert Downs
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#102689
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Re: Threading Gear Confusion
Robert, you are a fountain of Atlas knowledge. Can you illuminate for the group how you came to acquire all of this information? Bryan [email protected]> wrote:
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Bryan Lund
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#102688
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Re: Threading Gear Confusion
Thanks everyone for the explanation. Stan
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Stan Gorodenski
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#102687
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Re: Threading Gear Confusion
Ignoring the gears for the 6¡±, which are smaller, between 1932 and today, Atlas/Clausing made two versions of the change gears for the 9¡±, 10¡± and 12¡± lathes. From 1932 until about 1937 they
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Robert Downs
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Re: Atlas / Craftsman 10F-12 10" & 12" Lathe Half Nuts / Split Nut
Raymond?One of the e-bay 1/2 nut sellers is not far from me there is nothing wrong with the brass he uses its not straight brass, it meant for bearing use. Now i feel that delron is questionable. I
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Guenther Paul
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#102685
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Super lathe bench
I was just doing some research [wasting time] on YouTube and came across a guy building a table top using concrete mortar mix. It is impressive, because it is so easy and would make a great lathe
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Robert
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Re: My Frankenstein Atlas
I sincerely hope not! :-) Robert Downs Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 17:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [atlas-craftsman IO] My Frankenstein Atlas I have to go look.... but I think my
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Robert Downs
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#102683
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Threading Gear Confusion
I am confused by the gears for my Atlas 10F lathe Almost all my threading gears (called change gears?) have an 'A' after the number designation, like 24A. I also have a 24. The width of the thread is
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Stan Gorodenski
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#102682
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Re: My Frankenstein Atlas
I have to go look.... but I think my 10F has the same teeth....
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Pete
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Re: Atlas / Craftsman 10F-12 10" & 12" Lathe Half Nuts / Split Nut
I don't think brass would be my choice either.?I'm in the process of making a set of tumbler gears for a Rockwell 11" lathe.?932 bronze was actually cheaper than brass would have been.?Kind of
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Dave Matticks
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#102680
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Re: Quick Change Post
I have 2 QC toolpost from CDCO never had problems i recommend it GP
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Guenther Paul
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Re: Quick Change Post
I put an album in the Photos section named DIY_QCTP with a photo of the same name.? I don't remember where I saw the photo or sketch that inspired it.? There was another sketch out there that had
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n5kzw
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#102678
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Re: My Frankenstein Atlas
I think Roberts advice is sound: get a new headstock if you want to operate the lathe as originally intended. With that said, the mods you described ¡°sound reasonable¡± if there is in fact a VFD
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Bryan Lund
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#102677
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Re: My Frankenstein Atlas
Robert, I was really down and out when I saw what had been done. This is the sort of dumb jury rigged things people sometimes do who work on there own cars. I never expected this from a machinist.?
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Stan Gorodenski
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#102676
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Re: My Frankenstein Atlas
The headstock at least certainly qualifies for ¡°Frankenstein¡±. The gear and whatever that is under it did not come from Atlas. My guess is that the PO had an eddy current sensor sensing the very
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Robert Downs
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Re: lathe color
And the same milling attachment fit the 10D on and all of the early and late 12¡±. Robert Downs Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 16:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [atlas-craftsman IO]
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Robert Downs
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Re: Quick Change Post changed to lathe color
Actually, over the 21 years that Sears sold the 3/8¡± bed 12¡± and sleeve bearing 6¡± lathes, they changed the color maybe every two or three years. We¡¯ve seen several shades of green, blue, red
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Robert Downs
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#102673
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My Frankenstein Atlas
I read the manual on how to remove the headstock spindle and what I read and what I saw made no sense. First, there is supposed to be a collar held in place by a set screw. The collar is inside the
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Stan Gorodenski
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