MachineJunkie

This lathe is equipped with automatic oilers on the apron, cross-slide and compund. It's all driven by a small cam-driven pump in the apron gearbox. When I went to see the lathe, it was apparent that the pump hadn't been functional for some time. The sight glass at the front of the apron was missing...

I spent the better part of the today in South Jersey watching the scraping operation on my lathe bed. I just barely had enough time to get the lathe back into the barn before it got dark, so the pictures below may not be so great. I'll get some better ones up once I start the reassembly. Here's a sh...

I managed to get my Meuser lathe trued up pretty good. It's running great and does just about everything I need. Between this lathe and the Kerry 1324 I have everything I need. Right. I got into another cutterhead project that required 5' between center. So what did I do? Introducing my Meuser's big...

Those timed expellers work very well. You'll definitely want a stationary setup for this option. You can use a small piece of tubing run outside. The opening is pretty small, and they are reliable. Not much of a chance of it causing any real harm or making the compressor run continuously if it faile...

Pete, I've got my vertical compressor on wheels. It's actually mounted inside a mobile cage. I sometimes use it with my spray foam rig (this makes it alot easier to get it on the truck). Vibration has never been a problem. This is a newer 7.5 HP IR. As far as the drain goes, I've got a valve with a ...

I finally got some time in the shop this weekend and have the cutterhead project moving along nicely. I managed to get the end of the shaft threaded. This turned out to be a non-event. I had been worried about the small area to be threaded. Other than it being very close to the chuck, it was pretty ...

Pete, I'm sorry/happy to say that the project on the cutterhead is just winding down (after a 6 week delay ironing out the issues with the lathe). I purchased some NOS Delta heads from a machinery dealer. The one I'm working on now was a 24" 4 knife head from a planer. The diameter matched the ...

Pete, It's a 16" direct drive jointer. I'm replacing the 4 knife Clam-shell with a 4 knife head. The thread on the end of the shaft is 1-1/2-18. It's also only 5/8" of threaded area. I haven't tried cutting anything that short or fine on this lathe. I've learned the hard way about the accu...

Pete, My plan is to make all the heavy cuts using the three jaw chuck. Once I'm withing 1/8" of finished tolerances, I'll switch to the collet chuck. I rarely remove a workpiece from the lathe in the middle of the job. When I do, I'm very careful to reference the work to the chuck. I have a fou...

I got the chuck mounted up today and was disappointed to find out that I was running out just over 2 thousandths. I took the chuck off the back plate and checked the backplate by it'self. The plate was running out just over a thousandth. I mounted up the toolpost grinder (Thanks Tim) and ground the ...

Price replacement aircraft cable at McMaster... Just make sure you're sitting down at the time... Last time I needed some 1/8" in a hurry, it was right around $0.50 per foot... And you're not playing with 1/8" with this winch... Half inch cable is generally available surplus for ~$1/FT. T...

The spindle is an L0. I'm not sure how it got messed up. It looked good, no dings or even scratches. My guess is that someone tried to regrind it and didn't get the taper right. I took it to a friend of mine (who is actually a machinist). He chucked it up in his lathe and we trued it up using a tool...

I recently picked up this Meuser M0 lathe: http://www.owwm.net/images/183.jpg I checked the spindle before purchasing it (with the collet closer mounted) and only got about half a thousandth runout. I mounted the chuck once I got it home and found that it was out just over three thou. I unmounted th...

I agree with Tim on the height. I'm always moving items that weigh enough that I don't want to lift them while going from bench to machine, etc. I also make sure I have locking wheels/casters on both ends of the cart. I have a few die carts that I use for really heavy stuff, but these aren't very fr...

Reg, Yes I do. It's a lot more rigid than the Bridgeport. The Cincy is very accurate and cuts cast iron like butter. Both of my mills also have the coolant pump and resevoir built into the base. The table is plumbed back to a discharge in the knee. There's very little run-off or splashing. I have to...

Pete, You're absolutely right on the pricing angle. I bought my first Toolmaster mill in an on-line auction. It ended up selling for a whopping $55. This is what it looked like in the auction: http://www.owwm.net/images/188.jpg I didn't have to do a thing to it. I brought it in, plunked it down and ...

I took a ride over to Cattail foundry on Saturday to drop off a tenoner table I'm having reproduced. Along the way there was an auction in New Holland. I had to wait around for the whole day, but ended up coming away with this Toolmaster vertical mill: http://www.owwm.net/images/185.jpg http://www.o...

My Lodge & Shipley lathe suffered a catastrophic failure a few weeks back. Unfortunately, it was beyond reasonable efforts to repair and ended up at the local scrap yard (all 9500 lbs of it). I started looking around for something that was a bit smaller but that was well equipped. I must have lo...

Nico, I found some old photos of my T100. Don't know if they'll help, but here they are: http://www.owwm.net/images/181.jpg http://www.owwm.net/images/180.jpg http://www.owwm.net/images/179.jpg http://www.owwm.net/images/178.jpg http://www.owwm.net/images/177.jpg Reg, Here's the contact info for Cat...

Nico, You jogged my memory. That is a two speed motor, and the switch is to change speeds. The starter box had a third button for reverse. The spindle wrench is a cylinder about 10" long with a bar through it. I have it somewhere. You can definitely braze that mount back together. If you really...