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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/13/17 08:07 PM
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OH CRAP!!! Gives a whole new meaning to happy wife happy life! LOL. Good teacher... Sure does.. I kid with her saying that if she gets pissed at me to make sure its a good shot.. dont gimp me for the rest of my time here.LOL.. but she is a good one 
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/13/17 10:59 PM
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Mike, tell here to look for a SouthBend, LeBlonde,American or Monarch brand those are usually stout old beasts that last with reasonable care I have spent many hours on a lathe over the years and American or Monarch were the best as far as being beefy and accurate, south bend and LeBlonde make some nice little what we call speed lathes ( 6 inch chuck and 3 to 4 ft bed length) that hold up well
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/14/17 12:43 AM
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Mike, tell here to look for a SouthBend, LeBlonde,American or Monarch brand those are usually stout old beasts that last with reasonable care I have spent many hours on a lathe over the years and American or Monarch were the best as far as being beefy and accurate, south bend and LeBlonde make some nice little what we call speed lathes ( 6 inch chuck and 3 to 4 ft bed length) that hold up well I worked on a Monarch for years back at work but I dont need one that big anymore.. I didnt know that South Bend made smaller units.. I'll have her see whats around.. thanks
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/14/17 12:03 PM
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I dont do a lot of big stuff anymore so I might look at a larger Shop Smith but I dont need the mill part.. still looking I think they have stand alone lathes...if you are talking Smithy and that type of machine. One of my tools is an old Smithy. I bought it late in 2008 and I use it more than I probably should. As long as you don't crowd the tooling, and use dial indicators rather than the hand wheels, you can make very accurate parts very fast on a Smithy. Mine is old enough that it doesn't have half nuts...but I had to thread a small metric part and my SB doesn't cut metric. So I went to the Smithy, set it up and actually cut threads without half nuts. The Smithy does have some issues with size, making a backstop etc but a very useable machine. I have a question for you.. are the jaws reversible on those.. I'm looking at the Smithy MIDAS 1220 LTD or the 1230 LTD but I dont see that they have the reversible jaws.. it may come down to a phone call
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/14/17 12:16 PM
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Love my South Bend ... 1957 with Taper. Romeo Mi? Ha - I just made the connection. In my other life (high school robotics mentor), I've been in touch with the team over at Romeo High School. http://bytingbulldogs.com/ Small world!!
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
[Re: MR_P_BODY]
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04/14/17 12:38 PM
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I dont do a lot of big stuff anymore so I might look at a larger Shop Smith but I dont need the mill part.. still looking I think they have stand alone lathes...if you are talking Smithy and that type of machine. One of my tools is an old Smithy. I bought it late in 2008 and I use it more than I probably should. As long as you don't crowd the tooling, and use dial indicators rather than the hand wheels, you can make very accurate parts very fast on a Smithy. Mine is old enough that it doesn't have half nuts...but I had to thread a small metric part and my SB doesn't cut metric. So I went to the Smithy, set it up and actually cut threads without half nuts. The Smithy does have some issues with size, making a backstop etc but a very useable machine. I have a question for you.. are the jaws reversible on those.. I'm looking at the Smithy MIDAS 1220 LTD or the 1230 LTD but I dont see that they have the reversible jaws.. it may come down to a phone call AFAIK, the standard chuck doesn't have reversible jaws that unbolt. They do come with a second set of jaws that are reversible and you just scroll the one set out and scroll the reversible set in. They also have soft jaws etc. They actually support these machines pretty well. Most anything you need they can provide.
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/14/17 01:38 PM
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I dont do a lot of big stuff anymore so I might look at a larger Shop Smith but I dont need the mill part.. still looking I think they have stand alone lathes...if you are talking Smithy and that type of machine. One of my tools is an old Smithy. I bought it late in 2008 and I use it more than I probably should. As long as you don't crowd the tooling, and use dial indicators rather than the hand wheels, you can make very accurate parts very fast on a Smithy. Mine is old enough that it doesn't have half nuts...but I had to thread a small metric part and my SB doesn't cut metric. So I went to the Smithy, set it up and actually cut threads without half nuts. The Smithy does have some issues with size, making a backstop etc but a very useable machine. I have a question for you.. are the jaws reversible on those.. I'm looking at the Smithy MIDAS 1220 LTD or the 1230 LTD but I dont see that they have the reversible jaws.. it may come down to a phone call AFAIK, the standard chuck doesn't have reversible jaws that unbolt. They do come with a second set of jaws that are reversible and you just scroll the one set out and scroll the reversible set in. They also have soft jaws etc. They actually support these machines pretty well. Most anything you need they can provide. Yeah.. I jst got off the phone with Smithy and they said they use 2 sets of jaws(ID and OD) that just turn in and out.. thats fine.. I also found out that a buddy is selling his Smithy.. he just built a new shop and he is ungrading all his equip to new and bigger machines.. I'll check out his Smithy.. if I step up to the fancier unit I can use all on my mill tooling on it.. I dont know what I'll do yet.. I'll see what my buddy has for tooling on his... thanks
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/14/17 01:42 PM
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What kind of lathe is it?
If it didn't destroy anything critical like a bearing bore maybe some new or used parts could resuscitate it.
Kevin Its some China thing.. I bought it at a auction at a high school some years back.. I got my mill at the same time but its nice... when I opened up the lathe today there was a number of worn parts on it... some parts were pretty rough If it just has parts issues I'd Google around and see what's available for replacements. I'd rather spend $1000 fixing a lathe I knew was good than $1000 buying a used one I knew nothing about. Kevin
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/14/17 03:24 PM
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With a mill and a lathe, you can build a mill and a lathe  My lathe was also from a school auction. It is a somewhat modern leblonde/ southbend with CVT style speed control. It appears that it was only used a few times, but it was missing parts. The cross feed screw and nut were missing, the cross feed gib was missing, the tailstock morse receiver was missing, and one of the gear box/ lead screw handles was broken/ gone. I made the cross feed screw and nut after buying precision ground acme thread rod and brass nut from McMasterCarr. The rest I built from raw materials. The trickiest part to make was the gib. After getting all of the hard parts together, I found out why the lathe was barely used. The servo for the speed control had been wired wrong, so the machine was always running at full speed. I assume they were stealing parts off of this machine to replace worn parts in the others because of the speed issue. A simple wiring repair was all it needed.
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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04/14/17 04:17 PM
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After I pulled the cross drive its nice a quiet but only has high and low speed but low works out nicely... high is way up there.. I talked to my buddy that had the Smithy but of course he sold it already..might be a new Smithy
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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05/04/17 12:14 PM
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No I havent even looked much.. its working but no cross feed... when I get this injection done I'll get back to the new lathe
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Re: Time For A New Lathe
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05/05/17 02:38 AM
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Love my South Bend ... 1957 with Taper. Romeo Mi? Ha - I just made the connection. In my other life (high school robotics mentor), I've been in touch with the team over at Romeo High School. http://bytingbulldogs.com/ Small world!! Mine looks just like that only green, I'm sure it's older than yours, working on it tonite. Still looking for a vertical mill
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