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  1. Kelly McLaughlin

    This Years Winter Project

    Hi Craig, yes thats correct. I wired it so forward was to the right and had a new switch plate made for it. Hi Peter! I adopted Tom Liptons' chuck key holder, a tube mounted on the headstock so it's not laying loose. The work surface, the top left drawer was to keep mic's drill bits etc away...
  2. Kelly McLaughlin

    This Years Winter Project

    Hi Craig! I got it from princess auto it's rated for 15A. I didn't want the vertical switch with the lever because of where i wanted to mount it. so I looked till I found this one, it is nicely made and was around 35.00.
  3. Kelly McLaughlin

    This Years Winter Project

    Hi Craig. It's a 3/4 hp 110 motor and yes thats a reversing switch, I'm having a face plate made because the supplied one had REV to the front and thats just wrong : ) They came with an on off but offered a reversing switch as an option. I think it should have been standard. It was disconnected...
  4. Kelly McLaughlin

    This Years Winter Project

    Settle down you two, it's nada still! It's a pressure washer fume hood...... I think hic : )
  5. Kelly McLaughlin

    This Years Winter Project

    Hi Folks! This one has kept me busy for a while. built the bench in November and started on the lathe in December but only got a few days in there. I added some upgrades like the brass half nuts and the oil channels on the compound and cross slide that are lubed by ball oilers I have a couple of...
  6. Kelly McLaughlin

    8" Kitagawa 4 jaw to trade?

    Hi Folks! Here's the Kitagawa 4 jaw I mentioned in another post It's bigger than I need for the work I do and it makes chuck # 5 with the purchase of the Atlas 4 jaw that is much more suited to the size of work I do. I'm in need of a small rotary table (4 inch) and other tooling if you have...
  7. Kelly McLaughlin

    1 1/2 8tpi 3 and 4 Jaw Threaded Chucks

    If anyone is interested, I'm going to liquidate the 8" 4 jaw Kitagawa (made in Japan) from my Atlas, I have a 1 1/2 - 8 backing plate for it but I think it's too big for that spindle the chuck weighs in at just over 30 lbs I don't think it ever got used,(certainly not much) I disassembled it to...
  8. Kelly McLaughlin

    1 1/2 8tpi 3 and 4 Jaw Threaded Chucks

    I bought two 4 jaws after reading your post, The closest atlas 6" 4 jaw I could find was in the mid three's US and then needed a backing plate so for the 9 x 20 guys it'a find for sure! Thanks for posting it!
  9. Kelly McLaughlin

    Has anyone seen a spec or recommendation?

    I finally remembered my camera when I was out working on the Lathe Here's a photo of my chucks just for fun. The small one is a 5" Bison the large is an 8" Kitagawa I disassembled them for service and inspection and the backing plate on the 8" Is over 3/4 of an inch thick so at lease a third of...
  10. Kelly McLaughlin

    Has anyone seen a spec or recommendation?

    Hi Rudy! Yes I bought this Lathe to save it from the previous owner who had disassembled some of it to "restore" it so far I haven't found anything really wrong except for improper reassembly. They're no Standard Modern but it will make a nice serviceable little lathe for a hobbyist. (not to...
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