Rick Kruger
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2002
- Location
- Halfway, OR
What sort of help are you looking for? I've made 5C fixtures for my 10EE and could pass along info if I knew what was desired. Maybe start a new thread with a particular question?
Bringing this over from another thread.
I have a recently acquired a nicely restored 1946 10EE. I have this lathe because my beautifly restored pre-WWII Rivett 1020 took a faceplant during moving and is in storage awaiting repairs. Nothing major, thankfully.
For the 10EE, I have a Hardinge SJGREN 5C speed collet chuck, but I don't like it. It seems slow and clunky and I don't like the sound of the closing wheel rattling during use. I was thinking of getting a Bison 5C Set-Tru Collet Chuck, but I am concerned that it will seem slow and both take up room on the spindle.
I partially learned lathe work on a Monarch 10EC (chucker) that had a Royal 5C Lever Closer. We'd release a turned part and insert a new one while the machine was running. I don't do that now, but I love the positive closing action and I feel like it positions/holds the parts more positively and consistently.
So, I want to find out what it would take to mount a lever closer on this 10EE. Attached are photos of the rear end of my 10EE and some of what I have for the Royal lever closer that has been mounted on the Rivett. I could pirate that closer from the Rivett, but really don't want to. I was planning on putting some big bucks into the Bison chuck, so am willing to put it into a lever closer if it can be made to work. If I were to use the existing closer, I'd need a longer tube.
Rick