I vaguelly remember receiving an email from somebody, they said they had planned to build a lathe from flat stock i believe. I was wondering if i could get more info on it, because it sounds very interesting.
Lathe? Whodunit?
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That would be me. I intend to start next week. My goal is to build an small manual lathe from readily available stock materials that a beginner could build for himself. I will post the results be they good , bad , or ugly .
I have, what I think to be, a unique and simple design for the gibbs but you will have to wait and see .To invent, you need a good imagination - and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison
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George,
You have my interest too. Please document the construction!Free software for calculating bolt circles and similar: Click Here
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I was thinking along those lines when I wanted a lathe but didn't want to have to cast all the parts in the Gingery designs. One of my concepts uses a 4 wheel drive wheel spindle for the head. I like the tapered wheel bearings and the center hole where the drive axle was. I would have wanted a belt drive running on the drum. That's as far as my thinking went before I found a SB9 that I just had to have.
Interesting project. I hope to see someone do one.
Thanks,
Spence
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