The Home Machinist!

Forgot to add, what’s the condition of your screw and nut? Do you have a thrust bearing or some form of bushing/washer arrangement on the screw too? I just made a new nut for my Yam/Cadillac compound and got new thrust ball bearings, two of them, and it made a huge difference.

Normally you’d blue the surfaces to see where your contact points are and scrape it. Plenty of videos on machine scraping to kill time.

Picked this home shop use One owner Bridgeport up a few months ago. It’s a 9x42 3/4hp single phase unit. F7B142CB-B1F7-4F63-ADC0-E541A2A15C4C.jpeg EBCFF93C-1A9A-4714-A3BC-C6B51ECE9201.jpeg 138AF50D-EE5C-44D0-9231-0959E94F36F0.jpeg C1B447D3-044A-4BA3-AC53-586A233CE03A.jpeg Oooh and this beauty too ca...

Fred_V wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:18 am "The Train" with Burt Lancaster. Great train shots. No quote sticks out for me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OC_NauqyoSg

Gotta go with The Train

There’s a butt for every seat! I see someone cleaned up my statement. I had questioned my sense of sarcasm but went with it. Thanks though. I had actually found a 10k that was probably never used as evident by it not having any wear marks on its soft bed. Found it at HGR and had a heavy layer of du...

There’s a butt for every seat!

Thanks for the input. I figured I’d get the drive knocked out of the way first and then move on to cleaning it up. I’ve had too many projects that I dig in to too deeply and then get pushed aside when I get distracted. I really need to thin the stables a bit.

Thanks again Z

I got things sorted and now my speed ranges are roughly 50-300rpm and 300-1800rpm. Exactly as the system was designed with a 1725rpm motor. Anything higher or lower would need to be accomplished with a vfd and I’m not going to go that route as discussed in earlier threads. The digital tach I install...

Today, I was only able to cut about .060” per pass, when taking down some 1.5” round stock Rpm and if you were in high or low would help. I noticed that as I’m going through mine the belt was pretty well beat. I replaced it and in low I had a speed range from 40 to 100rpm +- and in high it was like ...

I’ve found this thread a wealth of knowledge in going through my lathe and have added a digital tach and gotten the oil pump working. The belt was a bit beat so I had ordered a new one according to the existing but I don’t get the specified rpm range. The belt that came equipped on the lathe is a 23...

Thought I’d share a pic of the Fourteen I just picked up, . Wanted to get it in before the rains came and finished up around 11:00 pm.

Having owned the lathes being compared I’d prefer the Heavy 10 especially if it were a cast iron base model. The problem I’ve experienced with the clausing’s is the lack in rigidity in their base and think their apron assembly is rather chinchy. Now if you had a Sheldon in the comparison I’d pick th...