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  1. EricB

    Rockwell 11" Lathe

    You aren't kidding those are heavy duty, John! Have you tried it yet, and does it roll smoothly with the wheels on? I forgot about a pallet jack, that might be the way to go, just pick up a cheap used one off Kijiji and make sure I can get it under my machines. I don't really NEED to build a...
  2. EricB

    Rockwell 11" Lathe

    Gotta start somewhere, Matt! In third-year we made the same little stepped piece like 8 times. It had 1 tight tolerance on OD, a radius, some chamfers, etc. You can learn a lot from goofy little things like that. I think a Kijiji Hauls thread is a good idea, @Jwest7788 is the man to talk to...
  3. EricB

    Rockwell 11" Lathe

    Haha thanks Matt! Oh man, the acronyms. Just wait until you get into inserts. They aren't actually acronyms, because they don't stand for anything but they have letter designations. "For this step I'd probably take down the DNMG 432 and put up a VNMG 331. Then on the boring bar use a TNMG...
  4. EricB

    How to blow an entire day drilling 6 holes.

    Haha seems like a fun problem-solving day, John. What parts were you working on? Sent from my B15 using Tapatalk
  5. EricB

    Rockwell 11" Lathe

    I don't know about you, but I have often wondered to myself "Eric, what would it look like if half a mouse spent a few decades in a lathe cabinet?" Well boys, now I know. It looks a little something like this: The FUN part is... ...I haven't found the other half yet! Always need something...
  6. EricB

    Light bulb master copy for mould

    This seems like another "wish my lathe was together" type project. Sounds like a good opportunity to try out step-turning (kellering) Sent from my B15 using Tapatalk
  7. EricB

    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    Oops, yeah sorry. Doesn't use the lead-screw. Sorry. Been a long time. Sent from my B15 using Tapatalk
  8. EricB

    Rockwell 11" Lathe

    Yeah john, fun it is not. I'm also taking this thing more apart than I initially planned on, but I'm actually pretty happy about it. Since it turned out that I need to replace the belts right now it just made sense to go right through it. I still haven't taken all the sub-assemblies down to nuts...
  9. EricB

    Rockwell 11" Lathe

    Today the serious scrubbing began. Unbolted the ways from the base, but have to wait for a bit more muscle to lift them off. In the meantime I took some kerosene and a brush and started washing away decades of neglect as best I could. Gonna need some kind of plastic scraping tool apparently. No...
  10. EricB

    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    @PeterT if I'm getting what you're asking right, this might help: the leadscrew won't really disengage, when you have your taper-attachment set up and you have the lathe feeding you can watch both hand-wheels move. The leadscrew is still driving the cross-slide back. When you want to disengage...
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