King 7x12 Lathe $400 Comox Valley BC

[whydontu]

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[VicHobbyGuy]

RealBull 7x 12
That's a reasonable/good price for somebody local. Looks like enough to actually start making chips. Change gears in plastic bag?

 

[DavidR8]

Look at that tiny steady rest!

 

[VicHobbyGuy]

Look at that tiny steady rest!

I dunno about you 'big lathe guys'.. Is it like the loud motorcycle guys...compensating for some perceived shortcoming?

 

[DavidR8]

I'll not mention that I don't own a steady rest

 

[whydontu]

Just remember, it’s not the size of the headstock that counts, just what you do with it

 

[VicHobbyGuy]

Seriously..a lot of the 7x lathes don't come with a steady rest or follow rest.
Here's the BusyBee Sieg 7x12 - $1150+tax with the steady rest a $75 'option'.
https://www.busybeetools.com/products/lathe-mini-7in-x12in-1-2hp-cx-series-csa-cx704.html
Though I don't know who would buy that BB, with this $615 lathe as competition (this Vevor is a RealBull, like the King, but the King might have had better QualityControl..)
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/VEVOR-...arious-Types-of-Metal-Turning/PRD1RTIG5P4J4JZ
So that $400 King is competing with a $700 (with tax) Vevor and the King has the live center, steady rest, and some cutting tools.

 

[YYCHM]

Look at that tiny steady rest!

Steady Rest Failure

Sooooo, I was parting off on my 7X12 today, things were going well when the tool started grabbing and stalling the lathe. Twice it stalled, I backed out, tightened everything up and went back in at a very slow tool feed rate. On the third attempt the steady rest let loose. Do you think...

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[VicHobbyGuy]

Steady Rest Failure

Sooooo, I was parting off on my 7X12 today, things were going well when the tool started grabbing and stalling the lathe. Twice it stalled, I backed out, tightened everything up and went back in at a very slow tool feed rate. On the third attempt the steady rest let loose. Do you think...

canadianhobbymetalworkers.com

That's an interesting discussion; thanks for the link. Reading there, I thought you concluded that the aftermarket (LMS) bearings that you installed were the primary cause of the problem?
Parting tool digging in and stalling the lathe (or breaking the insert) might be a symptom of general lack of rigidity in the lathe setup - all the way from spindle bearings to cross slide and compund gibs, to tool post problems...and the 7x lathes seem to have all those problems. I have seen most of those in my lathe. How thick was your parting tool blade?

You mentioned parting between chuck and tailstock center - is that 'OK' ?

BTW, I bought a set of those LMS bearings but haven't installed them yet; I decided I didn't want to sacrifice even more capacity (diameter) in the steady rest.
I did elongate the slots in the brass 'fingers' so they could retract further.
The brass fingers and lotsa oil did the trick for the parts I was working on; I've only used the steady rest a couple of times so far.
No parting beyond the steady rest, though - just facing and turning.





Apologies for the off-topic...back to bargain hunting!!