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Offline goodfellow

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2019, 03:57:16 PM »
Congratulations!! Looking forward to the pics/projects with your new machine Jabber. Well done Sir!


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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2019, 07:05:41 PM »
Killer Steve I will b watching
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Offline slip knot

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2019, 07:06:42 PM »
cool, now you can turn metal chunks into swarf.  ;D

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #18 on: November 05, 2019, 10:03:03 PM »
Got some bits home plus a sweet old cabinet that was behind the lathe in the dark, ended up being full of collets and a few other bits.
I`m having trouble loading pix for some reason so im trying to trick puter into doing it.
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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #19 on: November 05, 2019, 10:12:18 PM »
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Offline gtermini

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #20 on: November 05, 2019, 10:42:39 PM »
Good start.

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2019, 09:07:38 PM »
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Offline DeadNutz

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2019, 10:50:10 PM »
You have some work ahead of you getting everything cleaned up. Are those collets sized by 64ths?

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2019, 11:12:12 PM »
Yeah i think so. the smallest one I've found so far is 1/32
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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #24 on: November 08, 2019, 09:50:17 AM »
Got some good stuff happening .. 440 that's some dangerous stuff.

How do you power these machines you're picking up?

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2019, 10:53:02 AM »
I have a 10hp phase converter and a step up transformer so I have 440 and 220 3 phase.
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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #26 on: November 08, 2019, 04:25:06 PM »
I have a 10hp phase converter and a step up transformer so I have 440 and 220 3 phase.

That is a good way to go. When we bought a Blanchard grinder it was wired 480V and we had 240V 3ph in the shop. It was easier to get a step up transformer than trying to move 50 yr old wiring on the motor so it could run on 240V.

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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #27 on: November 09, 2019, 06:23:53 PM »
Dr Rivett is in the house.....heavy little bastard.
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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #28 on: November 09, 2019, 06:26:49 PM »
Make you wonder when the last time it saw sunlight.
Got it in the shop and opened/removed all the doors and I`ve got a nice fire going in the shop , should get all the moisture out of it.
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Re: Found a toolroom lathe
« Reply #29 on: November 09, 2019, 10:05:16 PM »
Heck ya. No better feeling than turning cranks on something that's been forgotten for too long. Glad to see the move happened without incident. That transition on and off a trailer is always the worst part.

Now you can paint it a proper gray color when you take it all apart to clean the rust out.  ;D