jmp
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2001
- Location
- Mechanicsville, Va
First a big thanks to all those that helped me gain some insight into geometric die heads which
will be a key piece of tooling for this lathe.
When I picked this machine up I had planned to just clean it up and use it. It came out of a school shop and was nasty. Underneath the layers of crud I found a machine that had nearly no wear. I took care of all the mechanical problems most of which had to do with the variable speed drive. The spindle and turret bores were indicated and all was well. Since tooling this thing up was going to take a little while I decided to go a little deeper into it and do a repaint while I had it diassembled. Not a top flight resto but at least a little better to look at. The bare metal surfaces were pretty heavily stained as the pics show. I resisted the temptation of the wire wheel and just cleaned them with solvent and soft scotchbright. I've finally accumulated just about enough tooling (thanks to ebay)to get started. Also, the turret and cross slide are made by Enco. Seems like just about every small turret lathe that doesn't have a proprietary turret has one of these enco jobs and they are stout!
Rockwell turret lathe
will be a key piece of tooling for this lathe.
When I picked this machine up I had planned to just clean it up and use it. It came out of a school shop and was nasty. Underneath the layers of crud I found a machine that had nearly no wear. I took care of all the mechanical problems most of which had to do with the variable speed drive. The spindle and turret bores were indicated and all was well. Since tooling this thing up was going to take a little while I decided to go a little deeper into it and do a repaint while I had it diassembled. Not a top flight resto but at least a little better to look at. The bare metal surfaces were pretty heavily stained as the pics show. I resisted the temptation of the wire wheel and just cleaned them with solvent and soft scotchbright. I've finally accumulated just about enough tooling (thanks to ebay)to get started. Also, the turret and cross slide are made by Enco. Seems like just about every small turret lathe that doesn't have a proprietary turret has one of these enco jobs and they are stout!
Rockwell turret lathe