Rule_So_Hard
Plastic
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2015
Hello everyone. I've been in the forum for some time lurking and researching. But after owning and using my lathe for 5 years I've finally made a second effort to get to the bottom of the mysteries of my machine. #1 I didn't know what brand it was #2 I had no clue how to make the lead gear engage.
So about 5 years ago we drug a old lathe and a full set of gears a box of tools out of a shop in a nearby town. It was in rough shape and hadn't been used much but the gear set looked pretty complete and it worked for the most part. After taking it home and cleaning it up unused this forum to get me headed in the right direction using the lamp post tool holder. And for the last 5 years I used it quite a bit making bungs, making spacers etc....
Well I've reconnected with an old friend and we were having adult drinks in the shop when he started asking about the lathe. Hours later it was 2 a.m and we had taken all the hears off the headstock side of the lathe and cleaned and re fitted them. In the process we finally found the gear that was to be an idler between the lead and the spindle gears. And sure enough we finally made the lead screw work .
In the process of all this we found the main mystery was that at some point some did a very poor job fixing a v pulley to what should have been a threading gear and putting it in place of the idler to drive the carriage feed.
So we are now getting bushings and making a new spacer for the idler gear, and also going to make a pulley to drive off the spindle gear for the carriage feed belt.
Okay enough back story, while we were nerding out on this I happended upon a post in here and seen a lathe very very like mine. After looking up more I've determined it has to be a Putnam lathe. Looks like they have a bit of a following but not a huge source of info on them. Either way, have a look and let me know what you think. I truly enjoy bringing this thing back to life and making parts on something that has to be somewhere near 150 years old.
So about 5 years ago we drug a old lathe and a full set of gears a box of tools out of a shop in a nearby town. It was in rough shape and hadn't been used much but the gear set looked pretty complete and it worked for the most part. After taking it home and cleaning it up unused this forum to get me headed in the right direction using the lamp post tool holder. And for the last 5 years I used it quite a bit making bungs, making spacers etc....
Well I've reconnected with an old friend and we were having adult drinks in the shop when he started asking about the lathe. Hours later it was 2 a.m and we had taken all the hears off the headstock side of the lathe and cleaned and re fitted them. In the process we finally found the gear that was to be an idler between the lead and the spindle gears. And sure enough we finally made the lead screw work .
In the process of all this we found the main mystery was that at some point some did a very poor job fixing a v pulley to what should have been a threading gear and putting it in place of the idler to drive the carriage feed.
So we are now getting bushings and making a new spacer for the idler gear, and also going to make a pulley to drive off the spindle gear for the carriage feed belt.
Okay enough back story, while we were nerding out on this I happended upon a post in here and seen a lathe very very like mine. After looking up more I've determined it has to be a Putnam lathe. Looks like they have a bit of a following but not a huge source of info on them. Either way, have a look and let me know what you think. I truly enjoy bringing this thing back to life and making parts on something that has to be somewhere near 150 years old.