Who has machine tools?!?

[Kit]

The Grizzly G0602 10" x 22" bore is just shy of 1". Pretty sure you bore the spindle out alittle. When I had a 7x12 mini lathe. I bored out the spindle to 13/16 to pass thru smaller diameter barrels. I also had a 9x20 lathe that I wanted to make a big bore spindle for but i got my current lathe and had no need.

[Kit]

Yes, it is a Blazer body.

[russc]

This is awesome. Is that a Blazer? Never seen a tube layout like that.

[XEMON]

I know it only has three jaws holding it down. No, I did not spin the contraption at speed. Only rotated it by hand to machine the 0.015 needed for the feedneck groove.

Wish i had a lathe that size ...
Does anyone know of a large head lathe (big enough to hold a body) with a through bore of 1+" bit a SHORT bed (no more than 36")?
I dont have much space and dont care about long things too much ...

Also, do you guys use your lathe as a "mill" and put a vertical vise on the tool post?

[Kit]

I know it only has three jaws holding it down. No, I did not spin the contraption at speed. Only rotated it by hand to machine the 0.015 needed for the feedneck groove.

[DocsMachine]

I have a Busy Bee B240 bench top mill, Granville Hi-Speed lathe and a couple drill press.

-Sorry, you know the rules, Photos are mandatory.

[jots down two demerits for Ratzo]



Doc.

[Ratzo]

I have a Busy Bee B240 bench top mill, Granville Hi-Speed lathe and a couple drill press.

[Kit]

-Now that is in interesting piece of kit. I'm familiar with the more common Palmgren style of angle-able vise, but that bruiser is a lot beefier, and it swivels. Needs a little TLC, and a new set of jaws, but looks in otherwise good shape.

What's the other bit? A riser block? Looks too small for a Bridgeport...

Doc.

I have the larger #3-T version. The tilting base can swivel and the vise itself can swivel on top of the tilting base.

The round part is a riser for the Bridgeport.

[DocsMachine]

I'm in the process of breaking down a brown and sharp universal vise to clean it.

-Now that is in interesting piece of kit. I'm familiar with the more common Palmgren style of angle-able vise, but that bruiser is a lot beefier, and it swivels. Needs a little TLC, and a new set of jaws, but looks in otherwise good shape.

What's the other bit? A riser block? Looks too small for a Bridgeport...

Doc.

[Kit]

I'm in the process of breaking down a brown and sharp universal vise to clean it.

[DocsMachine]

Put this in my dads Tacoma and drove it home. It broke the rear shock mount off the shock. Paid 700$. It had a stripped gear in the gearhead. Called up Smithy and they still stock parts for this machine. 40$ for a new gear and it was good as new.

-That's the one drawback to "old iron", American or otherwise. Outside of a pretty narrow range, like Southbend, Logan, Monarch, Bridgeport, etc. parts can get pretty dang hard to find. My big Springfield lathe was never made in huge numbers to begin with, and the company was bought out and dismantled by the early 70s. I keep checking for parts on places like eBay, and they virtually never show up. On the other hand, there's like literally twenty pages of Logan lathe parts.

I could not get a trailer in time and had to tear it down to big chunks.

-That's been a running issue with me. Not the trailer part, but my 'machine room' is basically a side room of my shop, and there are no garage-style loading doors. Only standard 3-foot wide man doors. So apart from the lathes, virtually every machine has had to go in there piece by piece.

The process is to dismantle it out front, using the engine crane, and set the parts on pallets. Roll the pallets into the machine room with a pallet jack, then dismantle the lift. Reassemble the lift in the machine room (more often than not after first moving three quarters of a ton of packrat crap ) then jockey everything around in order to reassemble the machine in place.

It's not a lot of fun, it's hot, heavy work, but thankfully it's not like I have to move the machines every few weeks.

Doc.

[Kit]

In the process of cleaning so I can fit the wifes car back into the garage.

[DocsMachine]

[chatterbox deleted]

-Too tidy. Hardly looks like you do anything in there!



Doc.

[DocsMachine]

my only machine is this ... take raw coffee and turn it in something drinkable.

-That thing can turn raw coffee beans into Mountain Dew?!?



Doc.

[DocsMachine]

its a south bend 13 from around 1965

-Nice machine. Needs paint.

Doc.