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Pics of "amazing lathe gloat" and questions
(GTO69RA4) wrote in message ...
I
think whoever gave this machine to the guy I got it from cleaned out all the
orphan tooling and parts and said they went with it.
Looks like I'll have to see what these gears _do_ fit and start dealing.
OOooooh! I LOVE orphan tooling. It's one way I get things to fit
some of the older machines I have, I don't have any hopes of finding
originals for them, so what ever looks like I can make fit soon fits.
Just look at as a free machine with enough stuff that you can sell to
pay for fixing it up. Change gearing isn't really a problem, Boston
makes them yet, but they ain't free by any standards. (Which is why
I'm still looking for used gearing for a #3 Barber Colman gear hobber.
Gearing is their friend, and they like lots of friends.)
Sitting here bidding a job I really don't want to do, laughing at the
tolerances. 3 place decimal is plus or minus .030", and it gets
worse. They must want to assemble it long distance, throw the parts
and have them fall into place. Material is 1018 HRS. Looks like too
many hours, and I'm not really seriously in love with the idea of
doing it. SOP, bid and multiply by 1.5, hope someone else gets it.
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