jerholz
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2015
- Location
- Dallas, Tx
I've been mostly lurking on this forum for several years now, and I guess I'm overdue for sharing pictures of my Hendey. I'm not much of a machinist; I got this in support of my aviation habit, and for something to learn on. I've had it for probably 25 years. I don't know much about it's history. The individual I bought it from apparently just purchased it to resell. Of course, it had issues. Turned out, the shaft under the headstock that holds the dogs for the forward/reverse on the feed screw was broken. After way overpaying for an incompetent repair, I found a local machinist that did the job correctly. It has another problem with the half-nuts. They won't engage unless you back the friction screws on the carriage feed way off. I hardly ever need to cut threads, so I've never gotten around to diving in to this one. I assume I'd have to remove the apron to fix it.
As you can see, it's pretty ugly. Once I got it working, I just started using it. It's been really useful over the years. When I bought it, I had never even heard of a Hendey lathe. It just liked it because it looked plenty heavy duty. It came with a three jaw chuck and a square tool post, which I promptly crashed into the chuck. I've since acquired the aloris tool post in the picture, a better 3 jaw, and a really nice Cushman 4 jaw. I don't have a taper attachment. I'm running it on an RPC, but it's a undersized. It will start the 3 hp motor OK, but if I try to engage the spindle at too-high a speed, the phase converter drops out. Sometime when I get some time for another project, I'll get a 7.5 HP motor and build a new RPC.
I'm hoping hendyman will drop by with the original history on it. Also, I'm curious about to know what "cl.823 compound" means.
Thanks.
Jerry
As you can see, it's pretty ugly. Once I got it working, I just started using it. It's been really useful over the years. When I bought it, I had never even heard of a Hendey lathe. It just liked it because it looked plenty heavy duty. It came with a three jaw chuck and a square tool post, which I promptly crashed into the chuck. I've since acquired the aloris tool post in the picture, a better 3 jaw, and a really nice Cushman 4 jaw. I don't have a taper attachment. I'm running it on an RPC, but it's a undersized. It will start the 3 hp motor OK, but if I try to engage the spindle at too-high a speed, the phase converter drops out. Sometime when I get some time for another project, I'll get a 7.5 HP motor and build a new RPC.
I'm hoping hendyman will drop by with the original history on it. Also, I'm curious about to know what "cl.823 compound" means.
Thanks.
Jerry