My Lathe Specs

[dicklaxt1]

Craftsman............I know but thats what I got,so thats what I use.

Turning Length max..................38"
Bowl Diameter max...................15" inboard
Bowl Diameter max...................20" outboard
O/A length..........................60"
O/A height..........................15"
Width ..............................8"
Armature............................Fan cooled
Variable Spindle Speed..............400 to 2000 RPM
Motor Speed ........................2000 to 10000 RPM
Input voltage.......................120vac,12 amp
Output voltage......................90vdc,12 amp
Developed Horsepower................2(math works out to 1.44 HP)
Spur Center.........................#2MT
Bearing Center......................#2MT
Faceplate...........................4"
Toolrest............................12"
Toolrest............................6"
Indexing Wheel,1 hole to 24 holes in headstock

Weight??? I dont know but it took 2 plus me and one small hernia to pick it up and set it on the stand

Chisels:

3/4" gouge
3/8" gouge
3/4" skew
30 degree parting
1/2" round nose scraper
1/2" flatnose scraper
1/2" spearpoint

Chisels are Craftsman,Limey says if you keepem sharp they work fine.
They all work fine for me right now.

I have plans that show me how to make a vacuum chuck from a York Automotive A/C Compressor for $80 to a $100.

I have a phone # to call about "Lessons on the Lathe" in the near future,got to go make that phone call now............c.........u

dick

[volleyheads]

Dick,

Is that one of there tube lathes or soemthing else? I am not all that familiar with the Craftsman lathes, except for my father-in-laws tube lathe.

Best Regards,

Bill

"If it is worth doing, it's worth overdoing"

[dicklaxt1]

Tube????? Volley if you are speaking of the bed it is casting then machined ..........pretty damn heavy setup, I don't know if it is what I need but I bought it before I became so experienced....... LOLOLOLOLOL

dick

check out the photo in my shop

http://www.internetbytheminute.com/dlaxt

[Limey]

Holy mother of Moses the boy bought a machine with a demo piece already in the packing case !!
Sonny I refuse to believe you did that, come on 'fess up you got a ringer in to try and embarass all of us who took weeks if not month's to get to that stage. !!
No you've been secretly practising for month's so that you could say . Hey folks if I was to consider etc. etc. Then say day 2 I think I might etc.etc. Then day 3 say I bought a lathe this morning etc etc...
I am going to hang up my chisels NOW. There is no way, even though I did say it was easy, that I am going to live with that sort of progress.



Only joking ,Sonny, I think you know that.


My sincerest congratulations on a truly remarkable debut, you are a natural and I am not going to lose a minutes sleep now that you have snorted your first helping of the crack cocaine of woodworking feeling guilty that I may have been partly responsible for your new addiction which will make all your previous vices seem like the first puff of an illicit cigarette behind the fence at "kindergarten".
I went to pick up some shaper tooling that I had ordered recently and yes I couldn't leave without a 2' piece of Cocobolo and a 10" square of Canarywood both of which said buy me buy me I'm a poor orphan that needs a home.
Just like the candy at the checkout, you'll see.
You didn't listen when I warned you did you?
Walk into my parlour said the spider to the fly!

Once again don't let my clowning fool you THAT IS SOME START you made there Kiddo .

Yours in stunned admiration

LIMEY

[volleyheads]

Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't seen that lathe from Cratsman somehow. It looks an awful lot like mine (Delta 701 - discontinued) except our motors are mounted perpendicular. Is it cariable speed or do you change pulleys to change speeds. Just a curious kind of guy.

Best Regards,

Bill

"If it is worth doing, it's worth overdoing"

[dicklaxt1]

no pullies

[Sonny Edmonds]

...is eggzackary the lathe I was going to get. But I decided to get the Delta Midi for 300 whereas your would have cost me 500 and some acreage in the shop.
And we both know it's the hands and heart guiding the tools, Not the name on the tool.
Behold, my very first attempt:


:D

Sonny Edmonds
"Precision Firewood Specialist"
http://home.earthlink.net/~sonnypie/
God Bless America !