Itemized Cost of A Garage Lathe Shop

[Winsten]

I have a tiny part of a cone crusher as my backyard fire pit... It weighs 5000 pounds. One of the drive pulleys from the same crusher is my driveway marker. It's about 5ft tall and has atleast a dozen 1"+ wide V-belt grooves.

Yeah those sheaves (shivs?) for the belts are crazy. I can’t believe that’s how a lot of the machinery still transmits, but I guess metal to metal connections would make a mess on failure. I really like all that type of equipment. Some of it is so simply built, just crazy big. I remember leaning up against a crushers motor housing not realizing that’s what it was, then seeing the rating on the nameplate: 6000HP

Regardless of how cool I think that stuff is, I’m hoping to get work other than the quarries, but I think I’ve gotta keep my options open at first.

Other than overflow work, manufacturers near me, and the quarries, are there any other places typically needing parts? I was going to look into heavy equipment rental places...

 

[ncjeeper]

One of the few advantages to being in my area, many service stations sell kerosene at self service pumps for $4-$4.50 a gallon.

Just got 5 gallons for 15 bucks this week at our local convenience store.

 

[Winsten]

Update,

Got new hard jaws, loaded an OD tool (WNMG432 with medium positive geometry), and chucked up on some scrap that came in the machine’s chip tray. Machine cut through .060”/side at .013” IPR, no issues (other than being a little stringy-material looks like 4140HT), no taper over the 4” near chuck, good finish. This was on a 1” diameter piece. These were the settings I figured the machine could run with its horsepower nerfed to 5 due to the phase converter. I’ll experiment to see how much I can push it. At these settings I won’t be setting any records, but I should be able to get started with some income on the side.

Picked up a drill press and a pedestal grinder as well.

 

[tdmidget]

Why ?
Is this the "harry Homeshop garage shop" good time hour show ?

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