Mounting a 5C Lever Collet Closer on a 10EE

[wfrancis]

Sorry for being slightly OT, but I had an original manual for a 1020 fall into my lap with what might be the serial number on it:

Rivett 1 lathe manual - Album on Imgur

I believe there were a relative handful of these lathes made (25?) and I'd love to find the lathe it was for. Includes 3 copies of the marketing brochure and hand drawn schematic of the electronics.

 

[Cal Haines]

Sorry for being slightly OT, but I had an original manual for a 1020 fall into my lap with what might be the serial number on it:

Rivett 12 lathe manual - Album on Imgur

I believe there were a relative handful of these lathes made (25?) and I'd love to find the lathe it was for. Includes 3 copies of the marketing brochure and hand drawn schematic of the electronics.

Nice! Any chance you can scan that into a PDF file?

Cal

 

[wfrancis]

Nice! Any chance you can scan that into a PDF file?

I'd be happy to oblige, but for the next 10 months I'm living 9 timezones away from home so you'll have to wait for my version.

Thankfully, the people over at rivettlathe.com have a copy up that's the same, with the exception of the hand drawn parts that mine has:

http://www.deprecision.com/RivettLathe.com/1020_web.pdf

And also the sales brochure:

http://www.deprecision.com/RivettLathe.com/Bull_1020.pdf

 

[Rick Kruger]

pre-WWII Rivet 1020

Sorry for being slightly OT, but I had an original manual for a 1020 fall into my lap with what might be the serial number on it:

Rivett 1�2� lathe manual - Album on Imgur

I believe there were a relative handful of these lathes made (25?) and I'd love to find the lathe it was for. Includes 3 copies of the marketing brochure and hand drawn schematic of the electronics.

R

I am going to take this to a new thread, as it is genuinely a topic of its own.

Rick

 

[rimcanyon]

Thanks. I PM'd you with my personal email.

In regard to the 10EE cover, could you please post some photos, as I don't get it about the top, middle and lower cover. My 10EE cover is aluminum. It seems beefy enough to mount a closer link to, and I can see how I could make some hard mounts to lock it to the headstock. But then, I wonder how much that shifting matters. It shifts front/back about 1/16" which I think the link mount should be able to accommodate. The cover does not move at all left/right.

Rick

Rick, here are some pictures of the headstock upper casting. You can see it has dowels to locate it and it bolts in place, unlike the headstock cover that is not built for a lever collet closer. I have seen some aftermarket collet closers, Royals I think, that have a bracket that bolts to the back side of the headstock, so they work on a lathe with that kind of headstock cover.

 

[Cal Haines]

Rick, here are some pictures of the headstock upper casting. You can see it has dowels to locate it and it bolts in place, unlike the headstock cover that is not built for a lever collet closer. I have seen some aftermarket collet closers, Royals I think, that have a bracket that bolts to the back side of the headstock, so they work on a lathe with that kind of headstock cover.

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I'll add that the middle cover slides underneath the one pictured; you need both. The upper and middle covers together take the place of the normal upper cover.

Cal

 

[rimcanyon]

I'll add that the middle cover slides underneath the one pictured; you need both. The upper and middle covers together take the place of the normal upper cover.

Cal

Also, the part shown fits both an old height and a new height 10EE. The middle part is where the difference in height is taken up.