JET8485
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2020
- Location
- Lafayette, IN
Hello all,
First post after being a longtime lurker, so please be gentle...I'm in need of some of the wisdom I've found here.
Background:
I design, build, and operate autonomous agricultural robots. After fighting long lead times and the high cost of one-off prototype parts while under tight deadlines, we've decided to invest in a small manual machine shop setup for prototyping. Mind you, we aren't a production job shop, so apologies if this isn't the right forum, but this is how we make our living.
After doing a lot of searching around, I found someone who was selling a Gorton 1-22 Mastermil, Enco 110-1351 13x40, large Central Machinery bandsaw, and their entire set of tooling, which included 2 packed toolchests worth of collets, end mills, drills, HSS and carbide, facing tools, half a dozen lathe chucks, multiple quick change tool posts, boring bars, half a dozen tailstock chucks and live centers, etc. Basically everything we would need to get started except for indicators and measuring tools.
The one main issue is that the cross slide on the lathe was snapped off during a move:
Although I realize this isn't a production level lathe, it has enough precision and robustness for our purposes--plus my guys aren't full-time machinists, and I don't want to blow a head gasket when someone accidentally damages it the first time.
My question is this: Does anyone know how I could obtain a replacement cross slide for this lathe, and any ballpark estimates of how much it would cost?
I know Enco is long gone, and I've searched ebay to no avail. I know many of the parts on these import lathes are interchangeable, but I have no idea which ones might be a match here. Is there anyone who might be able to offer some help?
Thank you all in advance.
First post after being a longtime lurker, so please be gentle...I'm in need of some of the wisdom I've found here.
Background:
I design, build, and operate autonomous agricultural robots. After fighting long lead times and the high cost of one-off prototype parts while under tight deadlines, we've decided to invest in a small manual machine shop setup for prototyping. Mind you, we aren't a production job shop, so apologies if this isn't the right forum, but this is how we make our living.
After doing a lot of searching around, I found someone who was selling a Gorton 1-22 Mastermil, Enco 110-1351 13x40, large Central Machinery bandsaw, and their entire set of tooling, which included 2 packed toolchests worth of collets, end mills, drills, HSS and carbide, facing tools, half a dozen lathe chucks, multiple quick change tool posts, boring bars, half a dozen tailstock chucks and live centers, etc. Basically everything we would need to get started except for indicators and measuring tools.
The one main issue is that the cross slide on the lathe was snapped off during a move:
Although I realize this isn't a production level lathe, it has enough precision and robustness for our purposes--plus my guys aren't full-time machinists, and I don't want to blow a head gasket when someone accidentally damages it the first time.
My question is this: Does anyone know how I could obtain a replacement cross slide for this lathe, and any ballpark estimates of how much it would cost?
I know Enco is long gone, and I've searched ebay to no avail. I know many of the parts on these import lathes are interchangeable, but I have no idea which ones might be a match here. Is there anyone who might be able to offer some help?
Thank you all in advance.