June 11th, 2007
The lathe is functional. It's a "Dalton Six". I'll have to
sign up with the fan club.
The oil line on the wall behind the lathe is
testimonial to the fact that it does spin.
My coworker, Ken, has supplied me with a pint or so of way oil and
spindle oil so we can get things really messy.
I designed that fancy belt tensioner myself.
The black and white wires connected to the washing machine motor should
be sufficient. A third green wire would be superfluous.
In the spare parts department, we find an extra chuck.
And a smaller chuck-like dealie bobber.
Some sort of cutting tool. Probably a "hand reamer" according to Ken.
A couple of vee blocks for holding round things for drilling and such.
Not useful for the lathe, but they came along for the ride.
A couple of chucks for the tail stock and more keys than you can
shake a stick at.
Pointy gizmos for spinning on centers, a reamer and an idunno.
Drill bits, some of which fit directly into the tail piece.
One of these days I'm going to remember to move my hand away
from the flash when I take a picture.
The two on the right might be for holding thread cutting dies. Maybe not.
A chamfer bit for smoothing off corners and a number of center drills
for the pointy gizmos and spinning on centers.
Vise jaws for the two chucks -- undoubtedly reversed from the ones currently
in the chucks.
Thingys to put in tailstock to support work being cross drilled (drill
mounted in spindle)
The bottom gizmo is for knurling, apparently. It's anybody's guess as
to what the upper gizmos are.
A tool rest for hand turning and three dogs -- to provide torque when
spinning on centers.
Some of these cutting bits look like they're in pretty poor shape.
I'm sure there's a place on the web where I can find some new ones.
I'm directed to www.mcmaster.com,
www.use-enco.com or, in a pinch,
hardwicks.
Left and right handed tool holders for getting into crevices to scare
out all the pumas.
Calipers.