Chuck Sherwood wrote:
I have a 10" Enco made in 1986.
Can't get QC gears for it from Enco, or anywhere else that I've found.
But I can get anything I need for my 9" Logan, made 50 years ago.


While that may be true of logan, I don't think people should get the
idea that parts are available for all old american made machines.
I have a 25 year old Rockwell. Can't buy a single part from the
manufacture. I think that even clausing is only selling what is in
inventory and people here have commented that many parts are no longer
available. I'm sure that not all clausing parts are available because
a friend of mine has tried to buy some and they don't have em anymore.

Sure, some are more equal than others.
Part of my problem is that the gear is a non-standard pitch, so I (so
far) have not been able to buy a standard spur gear and fit it. For an
Atlas last year with the exact same problem, that's what I did. And that
gear was not available from Clausing.

Another point is that while some parts are available, they can be
very expensive. For example I paid 250 dollars for a leadscrew
for a 12 inch atlas lathe several years ago. That a lot of jack
to spend on a machine that is only worth 750!

Shame on you. A length of Acme rod for that lathe should run about $25.
Fitting it to the lathe can be done without a leadscrew

Another reference point. My friend mike paid over 700 for a VS
pulley from clausing. Another example of a few parts can cost
more than the machine is worth.

There are alternative ways to solve the Clausing VS pulley issue, as I
(vaguely) recall). But basically that is comparing an industrial machine
to a consumer machine. I don't recall a Chinese lathe with a mechanical
VS arrangement.