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Help bed casting
sorry if this is a repeat, I never saw my first attempt
Anyone out there who could cast an extended bed for one of the 7x10,12,14 Chinise lathes for me? I would like to get to a capacity of 36 in between centers. yes, I know they are crap, but one could work fine for me. I once had a link for someone who did bed castings for very modest prices, but they seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. FWIW, you can buy a bed extension for a comp. small wood lathe, but even LittleMachineShop doesn't have anything past 14 inches. Any and all leads, tips, advises would be greatly appreciated. I live in soutern Ohio TIA Otto |
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Do you have a pattern made?
The tricky part is the pattern since there are commercial foundries who would cast your lathe bed, but prices may not moderate. Mark "ottomatic" wrote in message ... sorry if this is a repeat, I never saw my first attempt Anyone out there who could cast an extended bed for one of the 7x10,12,14 Chinise lathes for me? I would like to get to a capacity of 36 in between centers. yes, I know they are crap, but one could work fine for me. I once had a link for someone who did bed castings for very modest prices, but they seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. FWIW, you can buy a bed extension for a comp. small wood lathe, but even LittleMachineShop doesn't have anything past 14 inches. Any and all leads, tips, advises would be greatly appreciated. I live in soutern Ohio TIA Otto |
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"Mark" wrote in message . .. Do you have a pattern made? The tricky part is the pattern since there are commercial foundries who would cast your lathe bed, but prices may not moderate. not yet, but I think I can come up with a pattern once I locate someone who is willing to cast it foe less than what I paid for my first house. Otto Mark "ottomatic" wrote in message ... sorry if this is a repeat, I never saw my first attempt Anyone out there who could cast an extended bed for one of the 7x10,12,14 Chinise lathes for me? I would like to get to a capacity of 36 in between centers. yes, I know they are crap, but one could work fine for me. I once had a link for someone who did bed castings for very modest prices, but they seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. FWIW, you can buy a bed extension for a comp. small wood lathe, but even LittleMachineShop doesn't have anything past 14 inches. Any and all leads, tips, advises would be greatly appreciated. I live in soutern Ohio TIA Otto |
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ottomatic wrote: sorry if this is a repeat, I never saw my first attempt Anyone out there who could cast an extended bed for one of the 7x10,12,14 Chinise lathes for me? I would like to get to a capacity of 36 in between centers. yes, I know they are crap, but one could work fine for me. I once had a link for someone who did bed castings for very modest prices, but they seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. FWIW, you can buy a bed extension for a comp. small wood lathe, but even LittleMachineShop doesn't have anything past 14 inches. Any and all leads, tips, advises would be greatly appreciated. I live in soutern Ohio Otto Quite a few people have bought an extra bed and grafted onto the original. In your case it would take two. There is a Yahoo group devoted to extended minilathes. Rex B |
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"Rex B" wrote in message ... ottomatic wrote: sorry if this is a repeat, I never saw my first attempt Anyone out there who could cast an extended bed for one of the 7x10,12,14 Chinise lathes for me? I would like to get to a capacity of 36 in between centers. yes, I know they are crap, but one could work fine for me. I once had a link for someone who did bed castings for very modest prices, but they seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. FWIW, you can buy a bed extension for a comp. small wood lathe, but even LittleMachineShop doesn't have anything past 14 inches. Any and all leads, tips, advises would be greatly appreciated. I live in soutern Ohio Otto Quite a few people have bought an extra bed and grafted onto the original. In your case it would take two. There is a Yahoo group devoted to extended minilathes. thanks for the tip, though that option is also one I am trying to avoid i didn't know there was a goup specfically for extended minis do you knkow the name of the group? thx Otto Rex B |
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ottomatic wrote: sorry if this is a repeat, I never saw my first attempt Anyone out there who could cast an extended bed for one of the 7x10,12,14 Chinise lathes for me? I would like to get to a capacity of 36 in between centers. yes, I know they are crap, but one could work fine for me. I once had a link for someone who did bed castings for very modest prices, but they seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. FWIW, you can buy a bed extension for a comp. small wood lathe, but even LittleMachineShop doesn't have anything past 14 inches. Any and all leads, tips, advises would be greatly appreciated. I live in soutern Ohio TIA Otto Just my opinion, but I think you'll find so much work involved in this that buying a larger lathe would make much more sense. The casting will have to be aged, or heat treated to stabilize it. Then, you're looking at quite a few machining operations - milling, followed by grinding or hand scraping. Why not just buy a larger machine? John Martin |
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"John Martin" wrote in message oups.com... ottomatic wrote: sorry if this is a repeat, I never saw my first attempt Anyone out there who could cast an extended bed for one of the 7x10,12,14 Chinise lathes for me? I would like to get to a capacity of 36 in between centers. yes, I know they are crap, but one could work fine for me. I once had a link for someone who did bed castings for very modest prices, but they seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth. FWIW, you can buy a bed extension for a comp. small wood lathe, but even LittleMachineShop doesn't have anything past 14 inches. Any and all leads, tips, advises would be greatly appreciated. I live in soutern Ohio TIA Otto Just my opinion, but I think you'll find so much work involved in this that buying a larger lathe would make much more sense. The casting will have to be aged, or heat treated to stabilize it. Then, you're looking at quite a few machining operations - milling, followed by grinding or hand scraping. Why not just buy a larger machine? I would love to buy a 7x mini with a longer bed(36 in between centers) no such animal exisit, so far as I know Otto John Martin |
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