Recent content by Spruewell

I had a 4th axis (I know, not the same thing, but..) it started to freak out. fire up the machine and it would spin uncontrollably, jerky, or not at all. Turned out the glass encoder disc had cracked and then shattered.

Looks neat. But I don’t see much advantage to it over a slant bed lathe. The small footprint is a plus. It also appears to have suffered a catastrophic crash bad enough to break a tool out of the turret leaving that position useless. It would have to go pretty cheap at auction

Your kwikway reborer looks like it has some unique capabilities. If you can afford the space, it may be worth keeping. Especially if you have work for it

eBay has one listed for $599...

No problem.

For what you were asking for the live center, I would have paid shipping

Upon closer look, it is stamped right on it.

Let me know if it becomes available again. Thank you. I would have spoke up sooner had I known it was an MT5

I'm interested in the live center if it isn't already spoken for. it will have to ship to northern California

Got some time to pull apart the table traverse box: Looked like it was full of peanut butter. The lube line was eaten up and allowed a bunch of "stuff" to get in. The taper bearings on the worm gear were ruined. Fortunately, somehow, the rest of it looks mostly undamaged.

Nice kit machines. If no bites here, you may have some luck in the forum which shall not be named. Ebay and craigslist are also good places for those types of listings.

can't see the picture

for a .032" tool nose radius, you would only see about .004" (.11mm) difference in your X and Z values on a 45deg. taper. If you really want to be able to see it clearly, increase your tool nose radius to something huge, like 1.0" or 25mm. I would recommend cutting air for this exercise.

Running along the X or Z coordinates, you will not see a difference. It will likely only show up in XZ moves. You may be able to see it at the points where it transitions from X to XZ to Z. This being said, the difference will be so small and the numbers will change so rapidly, there is little...

The first image is a little deceiving. I think it's a matter of perspective that it appears the bolts are way outside the chuck body. The nuts are towards the outside but still fully within the master jaws to allow plenty of adjustment for re-machining the jaws. If anything, I might consider...