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Pictures of my Heavy 10

Heavy10

Plastic
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Feb 9, 2004
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Biloxi, Ms USA
Here are the pics of my Heavy 10 still in the Army shop truck. As soon as I can acquire a cabinet for this lathe I will take it out and repaint it. The geniuses decided to paint right over the original grey with a brush and they painted it camoflauge.......yuck.

Whats the best way to strip this lathe and repaint it. I started taking some of the paint off because the cosmoline was making the paint flake off.

Otherwise this lathe is mint condition with absolutely NO wear on the ways. Its still covered in cosmoline, thats what the brown gunk is all over it. The only other thing that has a problem is the chucks. They didn't put cosmoline on them and they have slight surface rust.

Also check out the UMD. It has only 1 place for the belt to ride on the pulley attached to the motor. But the red knob handle on the motor is a gear selector to choose between 4 speeds with just the change of the lever position. I dont have to move the belts to change speeds.

Should I pull the headstock apart and change the felt in the bushings? This lathe has not been run in at least 20 yrs. The person I bought this truck from could not get the engine started on the truck for that long. Therefore he said he could not use the lathe or any of the other equipment thats in it because the generator powers it all and it is on a PTO from the engine.

Any other advice on what should be done before I mess anything up on it.
Tell me what you think.

http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_1.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_2.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_3.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_4.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/lathe_5.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/UMD_1.jpg
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/TBordelon/UMD_2.jpg


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Cute Lathe! I noticed it has the L00 spindle and the "wide" QC gearbox.

I wonder why they painted it "camo" when it is inside a truck?

-Blue Chips-
Webb
 
Heavy 10:

From the looks of the pics, you might have your base problem already solved.

When you take the lathe out of the truck, take the steel bench top out also.

All you have to do then is make up a set of steel legs for it.

Everything then goes right back like it was.

If you want to you can add cabinet drawers on the right side.

It might not be the delight of the purists, but that lathe was never "stock" anyway.

My 11 X 36 machine was sold as a bench lathe. The bench was so ratty that I didn't take it home. soon after I was fortunate enough to find a set of cast iron machine tool legs that were supposedly from an old but small planer. The lathe has been on them now since 1966.

Sometimes it's best to work with what ya got.
 
Thanks for sharing the pictures. About 3- 4 years ago a bought a decent heavy ten on a ugly homemade base. I was never sure how or why it was on this steel base, now I know. It was made from the same top as in the photo, had the same drive motor. Mine had been house painted gray. Mine had a taper attachment, and yes it did have metric transposing gears with the big side cover. It had a bunch of other stuff to. Mine unfortunatly wound up a parts machine, no one liked the ugly base. I think a friend might still have that base unit, I would have to look for it. As Paul Harvey would say, now I know the rest of the story!

Tom
 
what a *neat* find!
I'd use want to at least check out the condition of those felts in the headstock, clean them, and flush out all the crudded up oil in the resivoirs - unscrew the oil cups off, and spray cleaner down the holes where the felts live at the bottom of the spindle. I got MUCHO crud out of my headstock when I did this in process of replacing the felts. Also cleaned out the apron, a bunch more crudded up oil.
 








 
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