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Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

If they fit a 10k, then we will talk.
Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

The south been looks great
Sold mine little over a year ago.
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If need a tapper attchemt or steady rest let me know.?
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Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

Like power feed motor.?
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Does the gear on motor go to feed gear?
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very nice!


On 2/1/25 16:54, Nitro via groups.io wrote:

I love refurbishing older machinery.
My South Bend 10K was salvaged from a fire.
Re: Projects ,on ,mini lathes,

 

Should look great?
Like to see to the finish ceiling fan
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Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

I love refurbishing older machinery.
My South Bend 10K was salvaged from a fire.
Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 
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I have 3 daw size.?
They saw I use shop same high sawhorse and doing welding machines work or welding .
They did lot cutting I had bigger sad but the little portable was very handy.
I have same? saw in my shop today.
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The only down side was saw blades would break and cost .?
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My horizontal bandsaw is a Jet that will handle 10 x 18 inch stock, a bit big for what I do, but the price was right.
When I got it home, I went thru the entire machine and replaced all of the bearings.?
Then she got a bath and a fresh coat of paint.
Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

I run VFDs and love them.
My Logan has one on it and it is outfitted with a glass scaled DRO.
No sense in having variable speed if you can't tell how fast it is, so there is a flying magnet hall effect switch handling that.
The other upgrade the three phase allowed for was the two horsepower motor to optimize my carbide.
I can see the point of the gears being noisy in my Grizzly, but I just prefer the steel ones and only have me here to upset if they are too loud...lol
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I tool a boring bar holder for my AXA post and fitted it with a bronze bearing and a drill chuck do I can do drilling operations on my lathe.
Another project was the addition of an indexer made out of a 60 tooth gear with a spindle stop bolt.
I can either drill along the longitudinal axis or any other angle I choose.
The install was fairly clean because I used existing mounting holes for the collet closer and the slot in the gear cover to pull it off.
The gear is mounted with an expanding sleeve in the spindle bore.
Then the indexing gear is removed, the gearcase can still be closed.
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I wanted to make a ceiling fan out of a prop, but never got around to it.

On 01-Feb-25 20:10, Nitro via groups.io wrote:

Presently no, but my dad still is.
I trust you know what a Pitts Special is?
We now own the Big Hickey Curtis built for himself to travel between Pa. and his factory in Florida.
Curtis never finished it, but we got it airworthy about a decade ago.
It is very fast.
I have some time in a PA-28-140 and have the prop off a 180 hanging in my livingroom.
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Presently no, but my dad still is.
I trust you know what a Pitts Special is?
We now own the Big Hickey Curtis built for himself to travel between Pa. and his factory in Florida.
Curtis never finished it, but we got it airworthy about a decade ago.
It is very fast.
I have some time in a PA-28-140 and have the prop off a 180 hanging in my livingroom.
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There's a definite advantage to machines that were designed to work in less than ideal conditions.? When we moved here everyone expected us to buy a BMW or Toyota but we bought a Lada 4x4 SUV.? Our friends now call our car The Tank after seeing me drive/swim through mud and potholes that would swallow a lessor car.

I tend to design stuff that will work in less than ideal conditions.? One of the TV studios declared our lighting controls to be the gold standard that new stuff had to compare to.? I'll bet some of our stuff from a couple of decades ago is still in use.

On 01-Feb-25 18:58, davesmith1800 wrote:
The DC3 was great aircraft.
Built for what we call bad runways today. I do not know of a replacement today
Dave
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The DC3 was great aircraft.?
Built for what we call bad runways today. I do not know of a replacement today
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It has been a long time since I Hurd the name Taylorcraft.
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Are you member of the EAA .
My father was member and we had meet in our shop for 10 years.?
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Dave?
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 04:30 PM, Nitro wrote:

We own a '41 Taylorcraft BC-12d and Curtis Pitts Big Hickey? ;)
Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

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For a consumer lathe, plastic is probably fine.? I never changed the gears in mine and didn't have a problem.

Metal is a lot nosier, not good for consumers putting these in a spare bedroom with the spouse watching TV in the other room.

My new lathe has all metal gears and a 3 phase motor with a dedicated VFD.? Motor quiet, gears are a bit noisy but not bad.

My old mill was belt drive and pretty quiet.? An old Taiwan "tabletop" I bought in the late 1990s.? The new mill is a gear head with a 2kw 3 phase motor and VFD.? Motor is pretty much silent, but the gears are anything but.

While I'm on motors, I brought our horizontal bandsaw from California as it cuts dead true.? I left the 120V motor and stand behind and built a new stand for it here.? A friend here gave me an OLD Soviet 3 phase motor that had been rigged up with capacitors to run on single phase and it had a grinding wheel on it.? Looks funky but runs fine.?

I got the grinding wheel off with penetrating oil, tossed the capacitors, machined a pulley hub to fit the motor and now I have a nice band saw.? Have to finish hooking up the auto shutoff and hydraulic lowering system but for now it works with a manual power switch.

Handy that I have 3 phase power in the shop sort of by accident, they brought in 3 phase to power our sauna as single phase power draw here is limited to 25 amps for an entire house. I said HEY, put a circuit in the shop!? They left the wire hanging out of the wall and I added a sub panel to that and it powers the mill and band saw.

Bandsaw right after we got it working again below



On 01-Feb-25 16:12, davesmith1800 wrote:

Hard to see plastic gears on any lathe?
I forgot part to watch out for.
As it is the gears I have on my lathe are power metal gears.?
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The spindle bearing very a lot some are class 1 all the way to class 8 and do not till you. Most are 6206 ball bearing no seals. It same bearings I use on hangar doors seal class 3 or better.?
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It just things that can fix easily and for under $50.00 at manufacturer cost they would have great lathe
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Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 

Hard to see plastic gears on any lathe?
I forgot part to watch out for.
As it is the gears I have on my lathe are power metal gears.?
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The spindle bearing very a lot some are class 1 all the way to class 8 and do not till you. Most are 6206 ball bearing no seals. It same bearings I use on hangar doors seal class 3 or better.?
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It just things that can fix easily and for under $50.00 at manufacturer cost they would have great lathe
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Dave
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Here's the other mods I did to the Grizzly before I moved.

Gear and leadscrew covers, wider stance on the feet.
Re: Grizzly 7x14 owner

 
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I guess I should clarify the stuff about the shop in Brownsville Pa. USA.
That is an oldschool lineshaft shop I run out at our Steam Gas and Horse Association showgrounds.
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I am deeply involved in the preservation of our equipment there and do all of the needed repairs when necessary.
The most difficult part of that is preserving the century old patina that the old girls now wear since clean and shiny isn't always in their best interest.
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My home shop is fairly well equipped, but I also try to do as much of the work at the showgrounds just to be able to say that all of my old "girls" help each other there instead of taking the work outside of that setting.
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