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What size lathe do you have?
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This would be ideal except......
I don't always have a regular chuck on my lathe. I quite often have one of the custom chucks I made for my lathe or a front spider on it. Sometimes I even use the MT5 taper without a chuck. Almost always, this is precision work so leaving the gap out or even replacing it without a full blown alignment simply wouldn't work for me.
Ya, my gap is NEVER coming out.
You are in good company with @mbond and a group of personal friends of mine who also have combo machines.
Currently I've got a Standard Modern 2000 series with 13" swing. Been a great machine, rebuilt it a few years back. Was a high-school machine that must have had an issue very early on with the electrics that they never bothered to fix, as the bed is almost perfect, but to motor was smoked.
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So where in S Ontarrible are you?
Have you seen the notifications about our April 6 meetup hosted by Modern Tool? Hope you can come. While at the meetup you’d be interested to have a look at the 6 used Standard Modern (14x40) lathes that Modern Tool just acquired from a northern college. They plan to demo one of them at the meetup. I’ll be getting more info on them and posting it soon on the Forum Here’s a pic
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Have you seen the notifications about our April 6 meetup hosted by Modern Tool? Hope you can come. While at the meetup you’d be interested to have a look at the 6 used Standard Modern (14x40) lathes that Modern Tool just acquired from a northern college. They plan to demo one of them at the meetup. I’ll be getting more info on them and posting it soon on the Forum Here’s a pic
Ontario meetup, April 6
Meetup announcement for Southern Ontario (GTHA and The Golden Horseshoe) on Saturday April 6, 2024 at 10AM. MARCH 21st UPDATE. NOTICE - THE VENUE HAS CHANGED. PLEASE SEE THIS POST: Post in thread 'Ontario meetup, April 6'...
ChazzC
Active Member
Started out with an 8x20 (or maybe 8-1/2?) Taiwanese back in the 90's, but needed space so sold that and my Mill-Drill around 2003. Once I was able to reclaim the space, I got a MicroMark/Microlux 7/16, and have since added a number of "improvements." Would like to get a 10" Bench Lathe, but money is always a constraint.
I'm in the Niagara/Haldimand area. I will try and make it to the meet up, but quite honestly, I cant seem to plan anything more than 12 hours out without someone/something changing those plans without my consent....
Nice lathe. What am I seeing on top of the nearest part of the ways, just in front of the tailstock? Is it way protection?
Martin w
Well-Known Member
Hi Colin, thanks.
yes they are aluminum flanges bolted to the carriage and way wipers. Keeps the chips away.
The one on the back, I had to tig weld back on. I was turning a 20-1/2” piece on my faceplate. I had clearance but not enough once I started taking a cut. It caught and broke it off..
Martin