rotarySMP
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2008
- Location
- Vienna Austria
I was at my mates place when he got his Boxford Industrial 10.30, so I made a video review of it. Nice lathe.
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Late model Boxford lathe
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neanderthal mach
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2008
- Location
- princeton b.c.
Nice well looked after lathe other than that trapped coolant under the compound. I almost bought one from G and M Tools in the UK a number of years ago. Same metric based machine, so that sort of put me off. I can and have worked in metric, but imperial is by far my preference. A dro would fix most of that, but exact single point threading for a wide range of imperial pitches would still have been my main issue. That Boxford might be properly designed and set up a bit different, but my current lathe has the same lead screw coiled guarding his does. It's a great idea, but for mine it didn't allow the carriage to move all that close enough to the head stock when using a face plate. And it's a pita to lube the lead screw. I ended up removing mine and gained a bit over 2" of travel.
The first shot using that carriage lever showed that pivot block for it was a bit loose. Since I've never used that exact lathe, I can only guess. I think its safe to assume it was designed so that lever swings up to a complete horizontal position and has spring loaded detent's to hold it in position up or down. But the user manual / parts exploded view should confirm that. Very odd Boxford would chose multiple shims for the correct offset spacing. I'd be checking into that a whole lot more because somethings not right. Since spare parts may not even be available now, or for sure would be expensive. I think I'd go to all the extra work and drop the apron for a detailed analysis of what the internal gear alignments are and how there supposed to work with that gear engagement lever.
The first shot using that carriage lever showed that pivot block for it was a bit loose. Since I've never used that exact lathe, I can only guess. I think its safe to assume it was designed so that lever swings up to a complete horizontal position and has spring loaded detent's to hold it in position up or down. But the user manual / parts exploded view should confirm that. Very odd Boxford would chose multiple shims for the correct offset spacing. I'd be checking into that a whole lot more because somethings not right. Since spare parts may not even be available now, or for sure would be expensive. I think I'd go to all the extra work and drop the apron for a detailed analysis of what the internal gear alignments are and how there supposed to work with that gear engagement lever.
