Got a new tool this week
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Got a new tool this week
This is kind of topic related because I can make truck parts with it. A guy my neighbor works with had it for sale and my neighbor thought it would be a good machine for my shop. My neighbor has been a machinist for over 40 years so I'm depending on him to show me how to use it:
I got this lathe this last week. Pretty neat unit, has a lot of tooling that came with it. I've only used a lathe once, about a month ago, for about an hour so I have a lot to learn before I can start popping out parts.
I got this lathe this last week. Pretty neat unit, has a lot of tooling that came with it. I've only used a lathe once, about a month ago, for about an hour so I have a lot to learn before I can start popping out parts.
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That is VERY heavy duty! The table is worth at least $500. From looking at all the collets, and some of the other tooling, it appears the PO was doing something pretty specialized? Do you know what it was exactly? Turning shafts is my guess. What brand is the lathe?
I got a smaller Atlas lathe a year or so ago. Haven't found much to use it for, but when you need it, you need it!
I got a smaller Atlas lathe a year or so ago. Haven't found much to use it for, but when you need it, you need it!
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I also have an old wood lathe that sat in my parents basement for decades. After my dad died I brought it home and got it loosened up, built a stand and made many things on it. I haven't worked with it for some years but it was a fun tool to use.
I have already thought up a few auto related parts I can make on the metal lathe. In the past I've used my drill press and angle grinder for making parts and have had so-so success. The hardness thing to do, which will be easy with a lathe, is making a centered hole in the middle of a piece of round stock.
It's a Wade unit. It came out of a tool room which I read was good because they are usually used less and taken care of in a tool room, they see more severe use in a general production enviroment. It's missing the chuck but the guy told my neighbor he has it and will get it to me. My neighbor left for a week and half hunting trip out west the day I bought this so I have to wait about a week to get it.
I have already thought up a few auto related parts I can make on the metal lathe. In the past I've used my drill press and angle grinder for making parts and have had so-so success. The hardness thing to do, which will be easy with a lathe, is making a centered hole in the middle of a piece of round stock.
It's a Wade unit. It came out of a tool room which I read was good because they are usually used less and taken care of in a tool room, they see more severe use in a general production enviroment. It's missing the chuck but the guy told my neighbor he has it and will get it to me. My neighbor left for a week and half hunting trip out west the day I bought this so I have to wait about a week to get it.
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I just found this site for Wade lathes, the Wade lathe guys seem almost as obsessed with their lathes as we are with our trucks, almost.
http://www.wade8a.com
According to a serial number chart on the site it seems my lathe was made somewhere in the early to mid '50s, how apropos!
http://www.wade8a.com
According to a serial number chart on the site it seems my lathe was made somewhere in the early to mid '50s, how apropos!
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I just found this site for Wade lathes, the Wade lathe guys seem almost as obsessed with their lathes as we are with our trucks, almost.
Welcome to www.wade8a.com
According to a serial number chart on the site it seems my lathe was made somewhere in the early to mid '50s, how apropos!
Welcome to www.wade8a.com
According to a serial number chart on the site it seems my lathe was made somewhere in the early to mid '50s, how apropos!
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Mine appears to be pre-'47. It's hard to believe, but the USA used to crank out high quality lathes by the hundreds a day!
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I've installed modern, electronic controls on 50-60 year old industrial machine like bed grinder and horizontal boring machines. These updates , with the cost of the modern control systems and total rehabbing of the mechanicals can be in the $200K+ area. I've asked the customers why they were willing to stick so much in such an old machine and I've been told you can't buy a machine today that can hold the tolerances that these old, heavy cast iron machines can.
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Nice buy Bob great tool. When I was younger I was taught to buy good tools and Id never have to buy em again. Well unfortunatly by the time I got My truck i had lost all My good tools to my well documented drug addiction,and needed almost everything, so I was forced to buy sub grade stuff, knowing perfectly well that they would be for one project only. Well they served there purpose, But there is no substitute for Quality. Boy with a machine like that youll be abel to fabricate some neat stuff. (For those of you who do not know Me, I have been clean and sober for almost 19 years, Praise God.)
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Suggest you invest in two more things to make life more enjoyable as you learn to and use your lathe: A three jaw universal chuck. ( I don't see anything but a collet chuck there) and an up to date quick change tool post with an assortment of holders. You'll use a chuck more than you will the collets and trying to do anything with multiple operations with those old rocker style tool posts and tool holders is a real pain in the putz.
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congratulations jim on being clean & sober for 19 years that is a nice accomplishment
i know that you will make it through another 19 years you have already shone everyone that you have the will power & the help from the man up stairs to do it
i know that you will make it through another 19 years you have already shone everyone that you have the will power & the help from the man up stairs to do it
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Suggest you invest in two more things to make life more enjoyable as you learn to and use your lathe: A three jaw universal chuck. ( I don't see anything but a collet chuck there) and an up to date quick change tool post with an assortment of holders. You'll use a chuck more than you will the collets and trying to do anything with multiple operations with those old rocker style tool posts and tool holders is a real pain in the putz.