On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 9:13:15 PM UTC-5, Martin Eastburn wrote:
I agree. In fact my lathe has left hand threads on the outboard side.
Inside is right hand. I can turn with a spindle bolt a 24" plate
easily. I just have it out in the room - already - and off the ground.
I could do a 48" plate. Only 24" down and 24" up. I just don't. Don't
need it. I have a large enough area and expanded near the head - no ways..

The 'modern' fancy ones are DC drive or 3phase drive and control the
speed forward or back.

My lathe - circa 1947 is is belt driven from a motor that looks like a
20hp cage but is 1/2. It just lopes along - no issue. It is also a 110v..

Martin

On 7/13/2017 4:08 PM,
I think Dr. Deb is implying that you will turn outboard on this lathe the same way you turn outboard on a Oneway lathe. Where the motor and headstock are fixed in place. Put the chuck, faceplate on the back side of the headstock and reverse the motor and move the toolrest over to the outbound side. But the Laguna is a sliding headstock lathe. You NEVER EVER turn outboard with it. You just slide the headstock down to the end of the bed and turn off the end of the bed. The Laguna and Powermatic 3520 and Jet 1640 and Robust Beauty lathes are all sliding headstock lathes. No outboard to them. You can only mount the chuck on one side of the headstock. Unlike the Oneway and Vicmarc and old General and old Delta lathes which had fixed headstocks and fixed motors and you could screw the chuck on both sides of the headstock spindle.


Mark, my lathe is a circa 1998 Woodfast M910 (1 1/4 x 8 inboard and 1 x 8 left hand thread, outboard) and has the same setup for outboard turning. The way I got around the thread problem was to have a couple of adapters made which allow me to use my normal chucks on the outboard side.