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| marshon:
--- Quote from: andyf on May 27, 2010, 07:32:49 PM ---Great job, Marshon :clap: You'll get far more satisfaction using it than you would out of some cheapo Chinese drill press. --- Quote ---I had to make a new 3/8th x 24 TPI spindle nose, not so hard since there was enough meat on the original to turn it down and cut the new thread. The old chuck had some weird thread on it and a broken jaw so it wouldn't clamp anyway. --- End quote --- That gives the game away, methinks! The non-screwcutting Unimat isn't your only lathe, is it? Come on, own up! Andy --- End quote --- I have an SL and a Mk4 (without the threadcutting attachments), but the spindle nose was turned down on a mini lathe (7 x 20) thanks to the old boy at the end of the road who has taken pity on me. I did the work, but it was his machine. The Mk4 could have done the work except that the spindle was 11mm in diameter and the bore is only 10mm max. The thread was cut by hand using the tailstock pushing technique. I have never had the opportunity to try and machine cut a thread (Yet). I WISH I had something bigger and more capable, but since the workshop is a room on the first floor, anything much bigger than a 7 x 14 would prove to be logistically very expensive to get in there. I am looking with longing at getting an old ML-4, or a Drummond 'B', or a Grayson as a restoration project, but no money means it's just a dream at the moment. |
| Baldrocker:
Way to go Marshon. Love to see old stuff bought back to life with skill and care. :clap: br |
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