06-09-2014, 06:19 PM
hi all as on the last leg of restoring the sl lathe. john ie doubleboost drilled and tap the new bed bares thank you so mutch john 
so i have fitted them the next thing was to mack a new hand wheel as one of them was missing got a lump of aluminum turned it dawn just under the OD of the original one then put a knurl on it then turned it dawn to the size of where the indexing macks shod be then drilled it and tap it for m5 then mad up two handles out of stainless steel then tried to fit the Handel for sum on reason their seemed to be not enuf thread sticking out of the Handel to fit the nut on to had it back to bits and fawned that the end of the feed screw thread had bin cut off so i had to mack the recess deeper in the Handel so the nut can go on right pics on a different note i have this lathe to sort out to its a Atlas 10 need a pdf on one if any one has one
so i have fitted them the next thing was to mack a new hand wheel as one of them was missing got a lump of aluminum turned it dawn just under the OD of the original one then put a knurl on it then turned it dawn to the size of where the indexing macks shod be then drilled it and tap it for m5 then mad up two handles out of stainless steel then tried to fit the Handel for sum on reason their seemed to be not enuf thread sticking out of the Handel to fit the nut on to had it back to bits and fawned that the end of the feed screw thread had bin cut off so i had to mack the recess deeper in the Handel so the nut can go on right pics on a different note i have this lathe to sort out to its a Atlas 10 need a pdf on one if any one has one
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