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| bp:
Welcome to the Mad House!! I've had a Sieg C3 for over 10 years. This is what I've changed, more or less in order of importance or effectiveness... 1/ Change spindle bearings to taper roller bearings 2/ Change carriage gibs from the waste of space originals to taper gibs 3/ Make a REALLY rigid post and clamp-on style QCTP 4/ Change cross and compound slide gibs to brass 5/ My original drip tray and chip shield were painted black, awful light sucking finish. I cleaned, rubbed them down and repainted them white, vast improvement!! 6/ Made a more effective half nut retaining strip, from flat bar, rather than the original two washers This lot should keep you busy!! cheers and best of luck Bill |
| Eugene:
Mike Cox has a web page devoted to the mini lathe and mods thereto, all of them described in detail and evaluated for utility. http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com Clever chap and writes clearly on everything from a QC toolpost to a spindle lock via hand wheels and speed controllers. 28 lathe mods in all plus umpteen tooling and accessory projects. Eug |
| Henning:
--- Quote from: John Rudd on November 28, 2016, 09:59:14 AM ---I have the slightly bigger Sieg C3, the super model with brushless motor... I have added a qctp to mine (Arceurotrade sell a suitable one) I changed the gibs from the rough steel ones to nice shiny brass ones.Same for the saddle retainers... I have made an extra crosslide from a billet if cast iron with tee slots across for holding stuff.... Changed the plasticy handwheels and gears for more blingy polished ally ones... Mine has the camlock for the tails stock, but I converted an early C3 tailstock to the same design..easy peasy... :dremel: Made a saddle lock that utilises the holes for the trav steady. --- End quote --- This is the list! I've done the same ones as above with the exception of the extra cross slide. One thing to mention is that whenever you do something plan ahead so you do any lathe work before you dismantle your lathe... DAMHIKT... |
| Buell:
--- Quote from: Henning on November 29, 2016, 04:29:13 AM --- --- Quote from: John Rudd on November 28, 2016, 09:59:14 AM --- This is the list! I've done the same ones as above with the exception of the extra cross slide. One thing to mention is that whenever you do something plan ahead so you do any lathe work before you dismantle your lathe... DAMHIKT... --- End quote --- Great now you tell me that. :doh: Does that mean I can buy a Milling machine ! I have the smallest workshop known to mankind.....oh sod it will build a bigger workshop as well as fixing the lathe ! This addiction is getting worse being on this Forum.....where's the Help page ! --- End quote --- |
| Henning:
--- Quote from: Buell on November 29, 2016, 04:39:29 AM --- --- Quote from: Henning on November 29, 2016, 04:29:13 AM --- --- Quote from: John Rudd on November 28, 2016, 09:59:14 AM --- This is the list! I've done the same ones as above with the exception of the extra cross slide. One thing to mention is that whenever you do something plan ahead so you do any lathe work before you dismantle your lathe... DAMHIKT... --- End quote --- Great now you tell me that. :doh: Does that mean I can buy a Milling machine ! I have the smallest workshop known to mankind.....oh sod it will build a bigger workshop as well as fixing the lathe ! This addiction is getting worse being on this Forum.....where's the Help page ! --- End quote --- Well, in my defense I told you as soon as I saw your post The small workshop syndrome will never disappear either I'm afraid. I've doubled the size of mine and it's still waaaay too small. There's a toolhoarders anonymous around here somewhere for help and I believe there's a branch of a couple others as well, like "rather be in the workshop dreaming up stuff I have no room to build group" and also the "if I only had (insert tool here)- group". Not really sure any of those will do you any good though... hasn't worked for me. My trailer is firmly attached to the car awaiting picking up of what I believe to be a rather nice wood turning lathe later today and if all goes well I'll have an Emco unimat 3 as well will go great with my V10P. SWMBO usually tell people that I'm not interested in tools. She upholds it's a genetical disorder... --- End quote --- |
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