I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?


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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

If nothing else you can part it out for a profit .
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On 2012-02-11, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?



Definitely take it. Use i if you need it, sell or part out if you
don't.

i

Ignoramus23559 wrote:
... Use i if you need it, sell or part out if you
don't.

A few years ago I found 1/2 of an Atlas at the dump (missing carriage &
tailstock). With that much missing, I decided to part it out. When I
was well into the parting out, the other half turned up at the dump.
When I was done, my eBay sales totaled $1700! And it was a change-gear
lathe.

Bob

On 2012-02-11, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Ignoramus23559 wrote:
... Use i if you need it, sell or part out if you
don't.

A few years ago I found 1/2 of an Atlas at the dump (missing carriage &
tailstock). With that much missing, I decided to part it out. When I
was well into the parting out, the other half turned up at the dump.
When I was done, my eBay sales totaled $1700! And it was a change-gear
lathe.

wow.

makes me think, maybe i should part out the 16 inch Monarch before
scrapping it?

i













i



Bob

On 2012-02-11, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

Which size? The little one (6x18") uses zamac (pot metal)
gears, and if they are run with the mesh too tight, they start to
crumble. My example was a Craftsman rebrand of an Atlas 6x18". The
early ones were bronze bushing bearings, the later ones had Timken
roller bearings. Even with that, they aren't rigid enough for serious
work. And the beds are box not inverted V, so things aren't kept as
straight. The 12" is better, but still not the same as my 12x24"
Clausing with a bore big enough to handle 5C collets and lever drawbars
for them.

But at $50.00, that is not a bad price. The question is --
*which* gears. If it is the back gears, it is part of the heart of the
lathe, and you will either have to hope that Clausing (who merged with
Atlas at some point) still has those parts. If it the thread cutting
gears, especially on one without a quick-change gearbox (and *all* 6x18
lathes had no quick-change gearbox), you can likely find replacement
gears -- or make them with the right tools. They are plain spur gears
with a double key, and you could make them of something other than
Zamac so they will outlast the rest. :-)

Good Luck,
DoN.

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"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-11, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

Which size? The little one (6x18") uses zamac (pot metal)
gears, and if they are run with the mesh too tight, they start to
crumble. My example was a Craftsman rebrand of an Atlas 6x18". The
early ones were bronze bushing bearings, the later ones had Timken
roller bearings. Even with that, they aren't rigid enough for serious
work. And the beds are box not inverted V, so things aren't kept as
straight. The 12" is better, but still not the same as my 12x24"
Clausing with a bore big enough to handle 5C collets and lever drawbars
for them.

But at $50.00, that is not a bad price. The question is --
*which* gears. If it is the back gears, it is part of the heart of the
lathe, and you will either have to hope that Clausing (who merged with
Atlas at some point) still has those parts. If it the thread cutting
gears, especially on one without a quick-change gearbox (and *all* 6x18
lathes had no quick-change gearbox), you can likely find replacement
gears -- or make them with the right tools. They are plain spur gears
with a double key, and you could make them of something other than
Zamac so they will outlast the rest. :-)


He said they were 'aluminum', and from his description, they are for
driving the feed.

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On 2012-02-12, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-11, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

Which size? The little one (6x18") uses Zamac (pot metal)
gears, and if they are run with the mesh too tight, they start to
crumble. My example was a Craftsman rebrand of an Atlas 6x18". The
early ones were bronze bushing bearings, the later ones had Timken
roller bearings. Even with that, they aren't rigid enough for serious
work. And the beds are box not inverted V, so things aren't kept as
straight.

[ ... ]

But at $50.00, that is not a bad price. The question is --
*which* gears. If it is the back gears, it is part of the heart of the
lathe, and you will either have to hope that Clausing (who merged with
Atlas at some point) still has those parts. If it the thread cutting
gears, especially on one without a quick-change gearbox (and *all* 6x18
lathes had no quick-change gearbox), you can likely find replacement
gears -- or make them with the right tools. They are plain spur gears
with a double key, and you could make them of something other than
Zamac so they will outlast the rest. :-)


He said they were 'aluminum', and from his description, they are for
driving the feed.

Those are the Zamac (pot metal) gears, then. They sort of
*look* like cast aluminum, but they aren't. (And just as well, aluminum
gears meshing with aluminum will gall badly over time.) If you *have*
to have aluminum gears, have them mesh with steel or some other metal.

These are the threading gears (whether this is the 6" or the 10"
or 12" Atlas), and having some missing will mean that there are some
threads you can't cut (until you find or make replacement gears). There
is no separate "feed" on these lathes. You have to use the half-nuts to
drive the carriage, and if you want a fine feed, you have to build up
the proper gear train, then change the gears to cut threads, then change
back to cut fine finishes again. Lathes with a separate feed take the
drive off either a separate rod or off a keyway milled in the leadscrew,
and use that to drive a gear or so in the apron of the carriage. Best
if you have both power feed (a significantly slower feed than the
half-nuts give so you don't have to change things as often), and the
cross feed (if present) is even slower. (Some Atlas 12" lathes have
quick-change gearboxes, but I *think* that they still don't have
separate feeds.

Keep some handy-wipes with an oil cutting filler because if you
keep the gears properly lubricated, you will have black hands after
changing them -- which sort of discourages changing them as often as you
should.

FWIW, the back gears are Zamac too -- at least on the 6x18"
which I still have.

Still -- as I said before, at $50.00, it is not a bad price.
And it can get you experience in using a lathe, so you know what to look
at/for when it is time to get a bigger/better one.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-12, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-11, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

Which size? The little one (6x18") uses Zamac (pot metal)
gears, and if they are run with the mesh too tight, they start to
crumble. My example was a Craftsman rebrand of an Atlas 6x18". The
early ones were bronze bushing bearings, the later ones had Timken
roller bearings. Even with that, they aren't rigid enough for serious
work. And the beds are box not inverted V, so things aren't kept as
straight.

[ ... ]

But at $50.00, that is not a bad price. The question is --
*which* gears. If it is the back gears, it is part of the heart of the
lathe, and you will either have to hope that Clausing (who merged with
Atlas at some point) still has those parts. If it the thread cutting
gears, especially on one without a quick-change gearbox (and *all* 6x18
lathes had no quick-change gearbox), you can likely find replacement
gears -- or make them with the right tools. They are plain spur gears
with a double key, and you could make them of something other than
Zamac so they will outlast the rest. :-)


He said they were 'aluminum', and from his description, they are for
driving the feed.

Those are the Zamac (pot metal) gears, then. They sort of
*look* like cast aluminum, but they aren't. (And just as well, aluminum
gears meshing with aluminum will gall badly over time.) If you *have*
to have aluminum gears, have them mesh with steel or some other metal.


I see some gears for sale on Ebay, and some he
http://www.blueridgemachinery.com/catalog/request_a_catalog/download_pdf_catalog.html
He said that his dad was a machinist, and that he's been moving machine
tools for 30 years. He didn't use the word Rigging, so that makes me
think he just drove the truck from site to site.


These are the threading gears (whether this is the 6" or the 10"
or 12" Atlas), and having some missing will mean that there are some
threads you can't cut (until you find or make replacement gears). There
is no separate "feed" on these lathes. You have to use the half-nuts to
drive the carriage, and if you want a fine feed, you have to build up
the proper gear train, then change the gears to cut threads, then change
back to cut fine finishes again. Lathes with a separate feed take the
drive off either a separate rod or off a keyway milled in the leadscrew,
and use that to drive a gear or so in the apron of the carriage. Best
if you have both power feed (a significantly slower feed than the
half-nuts give so you don't have to change things as often), and the
cross feed (if present) is even slower. (Some Atlas 12" lathes have
quick-change gearboxes, but I *think* that they still don't have
separate feeds.

Keep some handy-wipes with an oil cutting filler because if you
keep the gears properly lubricated, you will have black hands after
changing them -- which sort of discourages changing them as often as you
should.


How hard would it be to modify it to use a stepper or servo drive?


FWIW, the back gears are Zamac too -- at least on the 6x18"
which I still have.

Still -- as I said before, at $50.00, it is not a bad price.
And it can get you experience in using a lathe, so you know what to look
at/for when it is time to get a bigger/better one.


The last lathe I used was a worn out navy surplus lathe in high
school. Both of which are long gone. I doubt that the new high school
even has a metal shop, but they spent millions on the football field.

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message

The last lathe I used was a worn out navy surplus lathe in high
school. Both of which are long gone. I doubt that the new high school
even has a metal shop, but they spent millions on the football field.

A lathe is still useful with only a handwheel to turn the leadscrew. The 6"
Sears/AA is like that, the Prazi doesn't even have halfnuts to release the
carriage.
http://www.ismg4tools.com/sd300.html

jsw

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote:
....
Keep some handy-wipes with an oil cutting filler because if you
keep the gears properly lubricated, you will have black hands after
changing them -- which sort of discourages changing them as often as you
should.


How hard would it be to modify it to use a stepper or servo drive?

....

Not hard & VERY desirable:
http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/ServoPowerFeed.pdf

Still need to use gears for threading, but I very seldom do that.

Bob

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-12, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-11, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

Which size? The little one (6x18") uses Zamac (pot metal)
gears, and if they are run with the mesh too tight, they start to
crumble. My example was a Craftsman rebrand of an Atlas 6x18". The
early ones were bronze bushing bearings, the later ones had Timken
roller bearings. Even with that, they aren't rigid enough for serious
work. And the beds are box not inverted V, so things aren't kept as
straight.

[ ... ]


But at $50.00, that is not a bad price. The question is --
*which* gears. If it is the back gears, it is part of the heart of the
lathe, and you will either have to hope that Clausing (who merged with
Atlas at some point) still has those parts. If it the thread cutting
gears, especially on one without a quick-change gearbox (and *all* 6x18
lathes had no quick-change gearbox), you can likely find replacement
gears -- or make them with the right tools. They are plain spur gears
with a double key, and you could make them of something other than
Zamac so they will outlast the rest. :-)

He said they were 'aluminum', and from his description, they are for
driving the feed.

Those are the Zamac (pot metal) gears, then. They sort of
*look* like cast aluminum, but they aren't. (And just as well, aluminum
gears meshing with aluminum will gall badly over time.) If you *have*
to have aluminum gears, have them mesh with steel or some other metal.



I see some gears for sale on Ebay, and some he
http://www.blueridgemachinery.com/catalog/request_a_catalog/download_pdf_catalog.html
He said that his dad was a machinist, and that he's been moving machine
tools for 30 years. He didn't use the word Rigging, so that makes me
think he just drove the truck from site to site.



These are the threading gears (whether this is the 6" or the 10"
or 12" Atlas), and having some missing will mean that there are some
threads you can't cut (until you find or make replacement gears). There
is no separate "feed" on these lathes. You have to use the half-nuts to
drive the carriage, and if you want a fine feed, you have to build up
the proper gear train, then change the gears to cut threads, then change
back to cut fine finishes again. Lathes with a separate feed take the
drive off either a separate rod or off a keyway milled in the leadscrew,
and use that to drive a gear or so in the apron of the carriage. Best
if you have both power feed (a significantly slower feed than the
half-nuts give so you don't have to change things as often), and the
cross feed (if present) is even slower. (Some Atlas 12" lathes have
quick-change gearboxes, but I *think* that they still don't have
separate feeds.

Keep some handy-wipes with an oil cutting filler because if you
keep the gears properly lubricated, you will have black hands after
changing them -- which sort of discourages changing them as often as you
should.



How hard would it be to modify it to use a stepper or servo drive?


http://www.autoartisans.com/ELS/

http://medw.co.uk/wiki/index.php?page=ELS+Price+List


FWIW, the back gears are Zamac too -- at least on the 6x18"
which I still have.

Still -- as I said before, at $50.00, it is not a bad price.
And it can get you experience in using a lathe, so you know what to look
at/for when it is time to get a bigger/better one.



The last lathe I used was a worn out navy surplus lathe in high
school. Both of which are long gone. I doubt that the new high school
even has a metal shop, but they spent millions on the football field.

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

Which size? The little one (6x18") uses Zamac (pot metal)
gears, and if they are run with the mesh too tight, they start to
crumble. My example was a Craftsman rebrand of an Atlas 6x18". The
early ones were bronze bushing bearings, the later ones had Timken
roller bearings. Even with that, they aren't rigid enough for serious
work. And the beds are box not inverted V, so things aren't kept as
straight.


But at $50.00, that is not a bad price. The question is --
*which* gears. If it is the back gears, it is part of the heart of the
lathe, and you will either have to hope that Clausing (who merged with
Atlas at some point) still has those parts. If it the thread cutting
gears, especially on one without a quick-change gearbox (and *all* 6x18
lathes had no quick-change gearbox), you can likely find replacement
gears -- or make them with the right tools. They are plain spur gears
with a double key, and you could make them of something other than
Zamac so they will outlast the rest. :-)


He said they were 'aluminum', and from his description, they are for
driving the feed.

Those are the Zamac (pot metal) gears, then. They sort of
*look* like cast aluminum, but they aren't. (And just as well, aluminum
gears meshing with aluminum will gall badly over time.) If you *have*
to have aluminum gears, have them mesh with steel or some other metal.


What you really want is an ELS (electronic lead screw, (See
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/E-LeadScrew/
for one version, and some of it's variants.


But as for buying it, I think it is a steal at $50
I thought I was lucky when I got mine for $100.
Including boxes of misc parts that turned out to have a watchmakers
lathe in it too)


jk

On 2012-02-13, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-12, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2012-02-11, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

Which size? The little one (6x18") uses Zamac (pot metal)
gears, and if they are run with the mesh too tight, they start to

[ ... ]

He said they were 'aluminum', and from his description, they are for
driving the feed.

Those are the Zamac (pot metal) gears, then. They sort of
*look* like cast aluminum, but they aren't. (And just as well, aluminum
gears meshing with aluminum will gall badly over time.) If you *have*
to have aluminum gears, have them mesh with steel or some other metal.


I see some gears for sale on Ebay, and some he
http://www.blueridgemachinery.com/catalog/request_a_catalog/download_pdf_catalog.html

I love that "POR" (Price On Request) marking on lots of them. :-)

He said that his dad was a machinist, and that he's been moving machine
tools for 30 years. He didn't use the word Rigging, so that makes me
think he just drove the truck from site to site.

:-)

Well ... you don't *need* rigging when moving a 6" or even a 12"
Atlas lathe. :-)

[ ... ]

Keep some handy-wipes with an oil cutting filler because if you
keep the gears properly lubricated, you will have black hands after
changing them -- which sort of discourages changing them as often as you
should.


How hard would it be to modify it to use a stepper or servo drive?

Not at all difficult for use while *turning*.

However, for threading, it gets a lot trickier. You need a way
to send the speed and angular position of the spindle to control the
feed. Yes, it can be done, but you are good way towards a CNC machine
by then, so you might as well go the whole way. :-)

FWIW, the back gears are Zamac too -- at least on the 6x18"
which I still have.

Still -- as I said before, at $50.00, it is not a bad price.
And it can get you experience in using a lathe, so you know what to look
at/for when it is time to get a bigger/better one.


The last lathe I used was a worn out navy surplus lathe in high
school. Both of which are long gone.

So -- you should be able to deal with this one as well.
Certainly not be seriously disappointed, anyway. :-)

I doubt that the new high school
even has a metal shop, but they spent millions on the football field.

Sigh!

Good Luck,
DoN.

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...


I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?


--
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I have an Atlas book - let me know what model and
gears - maybe Scott makes them for some of the Southbend machines.

Lots of gears out there for sale and just stacked up.

Martin

On 2/11/2012 11:46 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:


"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...


I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

Martin Eastburn wrote:

I have an Atlas book - let me know what model and
gears - maybe Scott makes them for some of the Southbend machines.

Lots of gears out there for sale and just stacked up.


I will post more information when I get it.


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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...


I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?


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Don't buy lottery tickets for a while, you've used up your luck temporarily!

Tom Gardner wrote:

Don't buy lottery tickets for a while, you've used up your luck temporarily!


I haven't bought one in at leat ten years, and rarely any before
that.


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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...


Tom Gardner wrote:

Don't buy lottery tickets for a while, you've used up your luck
temporarily!


I haven't bought one in at leat ten years, and rarely any before
that.


--
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Buying one lottery ticket is like standing in your back yard and reaching
for the moon. Buying a thousand lottery tickets is like standing on a phone
book reaching for that moon. I buy one every once in a while...you've got
to have a ticket to win! I know a lot of people and institutions that could
use the help and I doubt it would change my life much at all.

Tom Gardner wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

Tom Gardner wrote:

Don't buy lottery tickets for a while, you've used up your luck
temporarily!

I haven't bought one in at leat ten years, and rarely any before
that.

--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

Buying one lottery ticket is like standing in your back yard and reaching
for the moon. Buying a thousand lottery tickets is like standing on a phone
book reaching for that moon. I buy one every once in a while...you've got
to have a ticket to win! I know a lot of people and institutions that could
use the help and I doubt it would change my life much at all.


I won the draft lottery, and almost ended up in Vietnam.


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

Buying one lottery ticket is like standing in your back yard and reaching
for the moon. Buying a thousand lottery tickets is like standing on a phone
book reaching for that moon. I buy one every once in a while...you've got
to have a ticket to win! I know a lot of people and institutions that could
use the help and I doubt it would change my life much at all.


I won the draft lottery, and almost ended up in Vietnam.

Shoot, I couldn't even win that. I drew number 312 and didn't get to
go I did go out and tie one on that night.

Karl

On Feb 11, 1:41*pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
* *I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. *The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. *He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

I gave $100 fr an old 10" Atlas a few years ago. I parted out probably
$200 or more, then sold the remainder for $100

wish I'd kept it to use for a welding lathe.

On 2/11/2012 11:41 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?


A lot may depend on how the gears got damaged. Did it fall off a truck
going 60 mph?

If simple cause and effect, my $50 would be smoking coming out of the
wallet!

Paul

Paul Drahn wrote:

On 2/11/2012 11:41 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?


A lot may depend on how the gears got damaged. Did it fall off a truck
going 60 mph?

If simple cause and effect, my $50 would be smoking coming out of the
wallet!


I was too sick this week toget back to him. He said he may want to
buy a rebuilt 225 slant six that's sitting in my garage. If he does,
it'll pay for the lathe and the gears, plus some basic tooling.


--
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?


He finally told me it is supposed to be 10" * 36".


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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner
said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

He finally told me it is supposed to be 10" * 36".

What lathe do you have now?

jsw

Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner
said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?

He finally told me it is supposed to be 10" * 36".

What lathe do you have now?


None.


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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The
owner
said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me
more
information next week. Comments?

He finally told me it is supposed to be 10" * 36".

What lathe do you have now?

None.

Then it will be a great advance for you if it works at all.

jsw

I won't sell it or trade - but I have an Atlas lathe book.

I can help on some stuff if you get it.

Martin


On 4/26/2012 8:26 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Michael A. wrote in message
...

Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. wrote in message
m...

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The
owner
said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me
more
information next week. Comments?

He finally told me it is supposed to be 10" * 36".

What lathe do you have now?

None.

Then it will be a great advance for you if it works at all.

jsw

Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The
owner
said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me
more
information next week. Comments?

He finally told me it is supposed to be 10" * 36".

What lathe do you have now?

None.

Then it will be a great advance for you if it works at all.


Yes, A lot better than trying to do things with hand tools, or in a
drill press.

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On 2012-04-24, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said
that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more
information next week. Comments?


He finally told me it is supposed to be 10" * 36".

O.K. I think that one could be obtained with a quick-change
gearbox for threading, or the basket-of-gears change gears approach. I
prefer the former, because it makes it more likely that speeds will be
changed as appropriate for turning instead of leaving it at the last
thread pitch setting used because of the mess and pain of building the
right gear train for each application.

Which gears are damaged is important. It is easy to replace the
change gears on the basket-of-gears type, somewhat more difficult on
the quick change, and quite expensive to fix if it happens to be the
bull gear and back gear.

But the price sounds good -- assuming that the ways are not
badly worn, even if the Bull gear and back gear are damaged. If it is
basket-of-gears, you hope that most of the change gears are still around
and included. You may have to haunt eBay to find some replacements.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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On Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:41:10 PM UTC-6, Michael Terrell wrote:
I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said

that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more

information next week. Comments?


Sounds like your basic TH42. PDF docs are all over the place for those. I have everything ever published for an Atlas in PDF format. Just drop me an email and I'll load you up.

Rex wrote:

On Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:41:10 PM UTC-6, Michael Terrell wrote:
I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said

that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more

information next week. Comments?

Sounds like your basic TH42. PDF docs are all over the place for those. I have everything ever published for an Atlas in PDF format. Just drop me an email and I'll load you up.


Thanks. I got some on Ebay, but I'm still waiting to pick up the
lathe. I'll let you know what it is when I finally get it. Your PDFs may
be cleaner than what I bought.

The owner has it stashed behind a workbench, and it will be a half
day's work for him to get it out. Just my luck that he's got too much
business at the moment.

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:37:47 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Rex wrote:

On Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:41:10 PM UTC-6, Michael Terrell wrote:
I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said

that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more

information next week. Comments?

Sounds like your basic TH42. PDF docs are all over the place for those. I have everything ever published for an Atlas in PDF format. Just drop me an email and I'll load you up.


Thanks. I got some on Ebay, but I'm still waiting to pick up the
lathe. I'll let you know what it is when I finally get it. Your PDFs may
be cleaner than what I bought.

The owner has it stashed behind a workbench, and it will be a half
day's work for him to get it out. Just my luck that he's got too much
business at the moment.


Im sure those of us that like you a lot..can provide some tooling and
whatnot G

Gunner

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not
agree that "violence begets violence." I told him that it is my
earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure
- and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his
fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

- Jeff Cooper

Gunner wrote:

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:37:47 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Rex wrote:

On Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:41:10 PM UTC-6, Michael Terrell wrote:
I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said

that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more

information next week. Comments?

Sounds like your basic TH42. PDF docs are all over the place for those. I have everything ever published for an Atlas in PDF format. Just drop me an email and I'll load you up.


Thanks. I got some on Ebay, but I'm still waiting to pick up the
lathe. I'll let you know what it is when I finally get it. Your PDFs may
be cleaner than what I bought.

The owner has it stashed behind a workbench, and it will be a half
day's work for him to get it out. Just my luck that he's got too much
business at the moment.

Im sure those of us that like you a lot..can provide some tooling and
whatnot G


Thanks.

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:42:09 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Gunner wrote:

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:37:47 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Rex wrote:

On Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:41:10 PM UTC-6, Michael Terrell wrote:
I was offered an Atlas lathe the other day for $50. The owner said

that there were two damaged gears. He is supposed to give me more

information next week. Comments?

Sounds like your basic TH42. PDF docs are all over the place for those. I have everything ever published for an Atlas in PDF format. Just drop me an email and I'll load you up.


Thanks. I got some on Ebay, but I'm still waiting to pick up the
lathe. I'll let you know what it is when I finally get it. Your PDFs may
be cleaner than what I bought.

The owner has it stashed behind a workbench, and it will be a half
day's work for him to get it out. Just my luck that he's got too much
business at the moment.

Im sure those of us that like you a lot..can provide some tooling and
whatnot G


Thanks.


Let us know what it is, maybe a picture or two..and we can put you
right in business. IVe got a bunch of MT1 stuff that will probably
work..and a bunch of #2MT as well. And LOTS of HSS cutters. Got a
grinder I hope?

Gunner

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