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Building a New Lathe
vtsteam:
And no broken taps, The bracket is mounted -- previously the existing treadmill motor bracket was spot brazed to a bit of pipe nipple. The whole is shot through with a 5/16" bolt. I'll add packing washers later....once I know where the pulley needs to sit.
vtsteam:
The bed turned right, and other parts re-mounted to check clearances and alignments. The motor is now hinged, but resting on the bench, without a belt (or its toothed pulley -- yet to be made). I have some space for it to rise, but it can't come too far up or it will interfere with the boring table in its extreme left and back position. But there is definite room. The belt will just have to be sized right. And for that, I'll need to make its pulley.
Also I need to mill out the top of the bed's back piece so the headstock can be moved full aft before permanently mounting it.
vtsteam:
Just to get a belt ordered, I kept going after dinner on this one. Rather than casting a new blank I rumaged around and went with ...
The lowly sprue:
vtsteam:
Turning down to 1.126" for a 18T XL driver:
vtsteam:
I turned the ends down to .875", bored .667", and since the old setup was still in place on the mill, all I had to adjust was the depth of cut, after tightening in the collet. The tooth cutting was much easier, only 18 teeth, and no need for the vernier -- just rotate to every even hole.
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