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    Canedy-Otto screw press

    It was fun working out that stuff. I'm using the press now and its a good fix but the long cantilever prevents really free rotation. Besides tolerating the coarse casting fitups, wear on the thrust face owers the latching pawl in the handwheel teeth so no loss of function, but more than...
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    Canedy-Otto screw press

    :) I bought that gizmo on a whim I think from Enco back when I got the machine and its a fantastic little accessory- works great!
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    My Lodge & Shipley 16" Model A freebie

    Hey from Baltimore, just a quick hop over the water from you :D
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    Canedy-Otto screw press

    Followup for posterity; the compounding lever on the machine has a babbitt bearing, so the lever can rotate on the handwheel assembly. It has journal and thrust faces- badly worn on my machine so that the lever dragged on the handwheel. I decided to bore it out and fit a bronze bushing...
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    Wiring 2 speed motor to VFD

    Thats how I run the vfd on my ATW lathe- 12 speed headstock, which offers quick and convenient spindle speed changes- not continuous obviously but given the 12 speeds the coverage has been enough for me. I did wire for fwd or rev though, only have used reverse once that I can recall. The...
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    Cutting Oil

    The Habcool works fine for carbide tooling, though I only use it on steel and aluminum, probably would work fine on brass/bronze but I've not bothered. I'm not inclined to use it on cast iron though I'm sure some of the chip spray eventually washes into the tank from the occasional job- I run...
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    Cutting Oil

    There are oil based cutting fluids, eg what runs on screw machines- Habcool 318 for instance. It can be run neat but its pretty thick so is often diluted with light DTE type oil. The formulation resists evaporation and doesn't mind tramp oil from the machine, it lasts a long time- doesn't go...
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    Large Vertical Lathe

    You know the guys who set up that shoot wanted to get in the vehicles and drive on the table while it was rotating... :D
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    Diamond in the Rough

    HP reduction based on single phase input depends on the model- some are designed for single phase. Generally that is explicitly stated somewhere in the specs. 240v single phase, assuming the motor is also 240v. My Nichols has a 3/4hp motor on it, am running with a 1HP Teco vfd- I've never...
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    Diamond in the Rough

    Belt change + vfd will get very low spindle rpms w/ plenty of power for a mill of this size. Thats a nicely tooled deal- looks to me like you have all the horizontal stuff though that thing that looks like an arbor support might not be :) I often use 1" and 1.25" arbors on my Nichols...
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    B&S #1 + Bridgeport C head for sale cheap - Scarborough, Maine

    That mounting knuckle may be original Bridgeport. My R head had something similar but didn't have the end-mount similar to this head. Instead the knuckle clamped to the round overarm support bar, projecting the Bpt head mount face to the side so the head mounted 90 degrees off the axis of...
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    american lathe

    If on a PC, look for the little landscape icon, just to the left of the smiley face- click it, you can drag and drop pics. Heaven knows how to do it on a phone... I don't interact with PM much using my phone, its too clumsy. I'd be happy to post pics for you in the antique machinery forum if...
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    american lathe

    Sounds like a High Duty, the design predecessor to Pacemakers- some gearheads, some flat belt drive. They generally used threaded spindles, made from circa 1912 up to the early 40's. A few Pacemaker design features did make it to them. If it has pushbutton oilers, and levers for the...
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    VFD's "burn up" a motor?

    Hiya Dave, Yep- working fine, haven't been inside the box for probably 10 years.. mine is 240v, set up to run the J head or the shaper head via a toggle switch, speed control via a pot also on the box. Its a handy design- no parameters to set.. though clearly can't be tailored as precisely...
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    B&S #1 + Bridgeport C head for sale cheap - Scarborough, Maine

    When I got it my Nichols mill had a R head (right hand pic, head with 4 bolts) mounted to its overarm- very easy to articulate it which is handy, the R8 spindle being helpful also. The lack of a quill reduces its utility a bit but no worries- it is nice and light compared to a J head etc, easy...
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    1983? Leblond 14" T&D- Completely new to lathes and have no idea where to start.

    Coolant pump might be single phase, though I imagine gusher used a variety of motor forms.
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    Royersford Excelsior 21 & 22" factory spec sheets w/pics

    I have a 2 spoke handwheel and pinion from an Excelsior 21" - the last parts left on the top of one that I cut in half to be an outdoor vise platform- free for the shipping, can takes pics etc if desired.
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    VFD's "burn up" a motor?

    I run my Bridgeport J crazy slow fairly often on the vfd with the belt in 2nd highest spindle rpm; well less than half motor speed, to the point where its easily stalled- some jobs don't need backgear or belt change. I've never even felt it get warm. Sometimes I run the Nichols that slow...
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    Something most will never see. Brand new Atlas 6" Lathe with every available attachment, new out of the box.

    The 6" was my 1st lathe also- the older 60's vintage design. I still have it in mothballs waiting for someone appropriate to give it to. My father bought it used- still with the original bill of sale. Its completely but not as extensively tooled as the subject of this thread- but everything...
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    O T vise stand

    My outdoor unit is an old camelback drill that I cut the top off of (the upper works were unsalvageable, missing most of its parts). Top 1' or so of the column is filled with hydraulic cement with a captive plate tapped for the three 1/2" flathead screws securing the plate on top. The top...

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