Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

Look at the pulleys - they should have indents showing the size and pitch.

Martin

On 7/3/2011 4:10 PM, Ignoramus16406 wrote:
My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

Ignoramus16406 wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks
I'll bet you can find this at the local hardware store. At least, our
local Ace store used to carry this, haven't checked lately.

Jon

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:10:25 -0500, Ignoramus16406
wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks
The balls are 1/8" dia on mine. It looks like the usual chain on a
light cord, although a little bigger. My guess is that it's 3606T91
in the McM - Carr catalog.

Here are photos of how it should look inside the head.

http://s749.photobucket.com/albums/x...insidehead.jpg


http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...sideofhead.jpg


Don't ask me how the chain is joined. I forgot to look.

RWL

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

Ignoramus16406 wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks


I'd just contact Clausing.

I never noticed it in the drawings, you have a picture where it is located? I might be
able to take a look at my 6903 and give you some measurements and a picture.

Wes

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote:

The balls are 1/8" dia on mine. It looks like the usual chain on a
light cord, although a little bigger. My guess is that it's 3606T91
in the McM - Carr catalog.

Here are photos of how it should look inside the head.

http://s749.photobucket.com/albums/x...insidehead.jpg


http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...sideofhead.jpg

That is ingenious. I wonder if Iggy's chain is in the sump?

Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

On 2011-07-04, Wes wrote:
GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote:

The balls are 1/8" dia on mine. It looks like the usual chain on a
light cord, although a little bigger. My guess is that it's 3606T91
in the McM - Carr catalog.

Here are photos of how it should look inside the head.

http://s749.photobucket.com/albums/x...insidehead.jpg


http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...sideofhead.jpg

That is ingenious. I wonder if Iggy's chain is in the sump?

Wes

Nowhere to be found.

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

On 2011-07-04, Wes wrote:
Ignoramus16406 wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks


I'd just contact Clausing.

I never noticed it in the drawings, you have a picture where it is located? I might be
able to take a look at my 6903 and give you some measurements and a picture.

Wes


Wes, I will call Clausing tomorrow.

i

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

In article ,
Wes wrote:

Ignoramus16406 wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks


I'd just contact Clausing.

I never noticed it in the drawings, you have a picture where it is located?
I might be
able to take a look at my 6903 and give you some measurements and a picture.

It's Clausing part 051-042 (ball chain belt) on my 5914. It was $13
from Clausing in 2005.

Not that it would be difficult to do using ball chain from McMaster.

Joe Gwinn

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:10:25 -0500, Ignoramus16406
wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks


Hey Iggy,

Just try something from a hardware store. It's not an "engineering"
thing. In use, the "dry shaft" will pull the chain around, and as
soon as there is enough oil the chain will slip and stop delivering
oil. Something with a 1/8" ball, like about the size used on a
commercial bathtub plug.

I've also seen what I call brass "flat chain" used. Harder to
install, but the advantage to that is that it has no "joiner" point,
and carries much more oil. Needs to be solid brass (solid, not a
coating or finish).

We used a lot of same principle oilers that are a solid brass ring.
Advantage to those is that if the oil reservoir gets low, the ring has
no oil to the shaft and it starts to "tinkle" like a bell, warning
that it requires attention. Disadvantage is that the shaft has to be
removed to place the ring on, and the reservoir has to be of a size to
accommodate the diameter.

Take care.

Brian Lawson.

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

Looks like light pull chain!

They have a double ball clip.

What diameter - I might have some.

Martin

On 7/3/2011 9:12 PM, GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:10:25 -0500, Ignoramus16406
wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks
The balls are 1/8" dia on mine. It looks like the usual chain on a
light cord, although a little bigger. My guess is that it's 3606T91
in the McM - Carr catalog.

Here are photos of how it should look inside the head.

http://s749.photobucket.com/albums/x...insidehead.jpg


http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...sideofhead.jpg


Don't ask me how the chain is joined. I forgot to look.

RWL

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

Thanks. Just a little update. Clausing told me yesterday that they do
not carry this chain but can give me a quote today. So far no quote.

I bought chain of similarly similar size at McMaster carr (it was very
cheap) and I will give it a try.

i

On 2011-07-04, GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:10:25 -0500, Ignoramus16406
wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks
The balls are 1/8" dia on mine. It looks like the usual chain on a
light cord, although a little bigger. My guess is that it's 3606T91
in the McM - Carr catalog.

Here are photos of how it should look inside the head.

http://s749.photobucket.com/albums/x...insidehead.jpg


http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...sideofhead.jpg


Don't ask me how the chain is joined. I forgot to look.

RWL

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

The situation is as follows. Today (3 weeks later) clausing called me
and had a price on the chain, which is $11. Surely, I did buy it.

i

On 2011-07-04, GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:10:25 -0500, Ignoramus16406
wrote:

My 6913 lathe is missing a ball chain. Its job is to pick up oil from
the bottom of the headstock towards the spindle gears and such.

My question is what ball chain to get at McMaster-Carr as a
replacement. Thanks
The balls are 1/8" dia on mine. It looks like the usual chain on a
light cord, although a little bigger. My guess is that it's 3606T91
in the McM - Carr catalog.

Here are photos of how it should look inside the head.

http://s749.photobucket.com/albums/x...insidehead.jpg


http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...sideofhead.jpg


Don't ask me how the chain is joined. I forgot to look.

RWL

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:00:44 -0500, Ignoramus2004
wrote:

The situation is as follows. Today (3 weeks later) clausing called me
and had a price on the chain, which is $11. Surely, I did buy it.

i

One of the guys in the home office probably changed the valve on his
toilet this weekend, came in to work today, and said "Hey, I've got
the chain from the old float valve - we can send that to the guy who
needs the chain for inside the head of that lathe" DG&R

PS. For that price, that's probably what I would have done if I
hadn't already seen what the one inside mine looks like.

RWL

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

On 2011-07-26, GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:00:44 -0500, Ignoramus2004
wrote:

The situation is as follows. Today (3 weeks later) clausing called me
and had a price on the chain, which is $11. Surely, I did buy it.

i

One of the guys in the home office probably changed the valve on his
toilet this weekend, came in to work today, and said "Hey, I've got
the chain from the old float valve - we can send that to the guy who
needs the chain for inside the head of that lathe" DG&R

PS. For that price, that's probably what I would have done if I
hadn't already seen what the one inside mine looks like.


But, how is your chain joined? With a regular joining link like on
your ceiling light?

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

But, how is your chain joined? With a regular joining link like on
your ceiling light?

Y'know. I don't know. When I unscrewed the cover of my lathe to take
the photo for you several weeks ago, I didn't think to keep rotating
it to see how it was joined. As I recall, there were joiners listed
in the McMaster Carr catalog, but for sure you'd want to have the
right one, because if the link broke, you might break gear teeth
grinding up the loose chain.

Let the rest of us know when you get yours from Clausing.

RWL

Ball chain in headstock of a Clausing 6900 lathe?
 

On 2011-07-26, GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane wrote:

But, how is your chain joined? With a regular joining link like on
your ceiling light?

Y'know. I don't know. When I unscrewed the cover of my lathe to take
the photo for you several weeks ago, I didn't think to keep rotating
it to see how it was joined. As I recall, there were joiners listed
in the McMaster Carr catalog, but for sure you'd want to have the
right one, because if the link broke, you might break gear teeth
grinding up the loose chain.

Let the rest of us know when you get yours from Clausing.

I will. My friend, who worked on my lathe, put in a regular ball chain
in it already (as I thought that Clausing forgot about me), but I will
report if there is any difference between "Clausing ball chain" and
regular 1/8" ball chain.

i