05-23-2015, 10:20 PM
Nice! Great to see it there so you don't have to partially disassemble the old lathe of unknown origins to move it. Leveling that one should be a chore all on it's own.
So what are your plans now that it's there? Will you give it a good bath and oil change(s) of the various sumps and reservoirs before tackling the feed issue? That machine should clean up really nice, probably never been done since new. While it would be nice if you had got the 1500rpm version it's as you said still over twice what you had and you don't have to swap gears (nor try to figure out how to reverse engineer parts for a feed mechanism.
Are those two separate chip pans that pull out for cleaning? That's a really cool feature! You know how much of a PITA it is got me to clean out my lathe.
Get power to it and run it through the gears and see how it sounds. Let us know.
So what are your plans now that it's there? Will you give it a good bath and oil change(s) of the various sumps and reservoirs before tackling the feed issue? That machine should clean up really nice, probably never been done since new. While it would be nice if you had got the 1500rpm version it's as you said still over twice what you had and you don't have to swap gears (nor try to figure out how to reverse engineer parts for a feed mechanism.
Are those two separate chip pans that pull out for cleaning? That's a really cool feature! You know how much of a PITA it is got me to clean out my lathe.
Get power to it and run it through the gears and see how it sounds. Let us know.