I lucked upon my first real lathe

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lvlss42190

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I found this buried in the garage of an old man at a yardsale this weekend.

Asked him about it and he told me his arthritis is so bad that he can't use it anymore, and that I was welcome to it at no cost as long as I could put it to good use and move/haul it myself. I took a few minutes looking it over and playing with the various controls everything is in working order, spindle turns on power feed and half nut both work, it just needs to be torn down cleaned up and everything given a good deal of oil.

I figure at no charge I can't complain about having to put in some work on my end. Very happy with this considering that one day I'm eventually working towards building my own cue.
 

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lvlss42190 said:
I found this buried in the garage of an old man at a yardsale this weekend.

Asked him about it and he told me his arthritis is so bad that he can't use it anymore, and that I was welcome to it at no cost as long as I could put it to good use and move/haul it myself. I took a few minutes looking it over and playing with the various controls everything is in working order, spindle turns on power feed and half nut both work, it just needs to be torn down cleaned up and everything given a good deal of oil.

I figure at no charge I can't complain about having to put in some work on my end. Very happy with this considering that one day I'm eventually working towards building my own cue.
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Very cool. Make that old man proud. ;)
j2
 
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Looks like a fun project if you have the spare time to put into it.
Once you go thru the machine and clean it up inside and out you'll have a good understanding about the machine and it's functions and operations.

Nothing like knowing the machine well that you work with.

If I recall rite those old atlas machines had a odd spindle bore of something like 29/32nd...



Cool find' make good use of it!





Rob.M
 
dontlitethat said:
Looks like a fun project if you have the spare time to put into it.
Once you go thru the machine and clean it up inside and out you'll have a good understanding about the machine and it's functions and operations.

Nothing like knowing the machine well that you work with.

If I recall rite those old atlas machines had a odd spindle bore of something like 29/32nd...



Cool find' make good use of it!





Rob.M
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That's what I was thinking, and yes the spindle bore is odd sized compared to what I've run through work in the past. As far as what size exactly I can't say yet.
 
once you clean it up and get all the things you need........... you will be building cues in about 2 years.......................

Kim
 
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