Bought a little baby lathe

[socalcraigster]

With this lathe, you can start producing baseball bats!

[woods]

Or custom one off toothpicks.

[averagef250]

I could make sewing needles!

[averagef250]

I just wonder what it was intended to machine? Seems incredibly overbuilt for the size stock it can hold. Even a .250" DOC only needs about 1/4 the machine you have there...

Jamie

There has been some chatter, even in light cuts. nailed it down to the chuck backplate not seating on the spindle taper. Cleaned and stoned all the surfaces, reassembled. She's tits now.

With rigidity restored I chucked up some 2" 1045, carbide roughing insert, .450" DOC .087" feed per revolution and 849 RPM. If it was working at all it sure didn't sound like it. pretty nice finish too.

Two speed tailstock is too cool.

The first lathe I had was a Southbend light 10. I actually did paying work with that thing and remember taking hundreds of couple thou cuts on parts to get a job done because of the machine's limitations. I could spend an entire day doing what a lathe like this Axelson can knock out in 10 minutes.

[averagef250]

BTW, Just wanted to thanks again to Steve for the old MT4 Jacobs super chuck. It gets used quite a bit.

[harrysnyder]

this is cool. I dig the old machinery. at work we have a few southbends and one cullman and one cincinatti.

[ToughOldFord]

Haaaa, saw that title and figured you got an old Craftsman or Atlas.

Nice piece of machinery you scored there Dustin.

Been almost 20 years since I worked a lathe or a mill, I did enjoy working at the machine shop, not the people there, but the work. They just scored a beat to cr*p C&C right before I left so I only got to see it in action. Pretty awesome when it blew the work out of the chuck and it'd smash around inside. Old Pete on the lathe was faster than the C&C,