Another New Machine

[jr45acp]

Well, not exactly new, but I had some friends who gave me a Clausing lathe, vari speed. Tooling included 3 and 4 jaw, rubber flex collet chuck, face plate, and lever collet closer. Needs some serious cleanup, but WTH, it was free other than the trip to pick it up.

Anyone that might be able to give me some specifics on this:

Model: 5913
S/N: 503544

As to specifics, total weight, approx date of manufacture, etc.

Also any recommended sources for an operator's/service manual that won't cost a fortune!

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John B

[This message has been edited by jr45acp (edited 11-05-2003).]

[bspooh]

I got rid of a clausing variable speed lathe back in 1993,,I later found the manual to the machine years later..I have no idea if it is the same machine as yours, but I'll look as soon as i can..If it is the same, then its yours...

brent

[jr45acp]

Brent, that would be outstanding! Of course I will gladly reimburse the cost of mailing, etc.



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John B

[bspooh]

No problem there bud...But I think the chances are very slim that it would be the right one...I can't remember too much about this machine, but I think it was a little turret lathe, or it just had an attachment or something....I just remember getting beat up pretty bad with a long piece of aluminum that was spinning really fast and whipping me really fast as well..tough lesson to learn about sticking material out 4 feet and trying to polish it at high rpms...

I'll get back to ya soon..

brent

[wierdscience]

Now wait just a minute,you say some friends gave you a lathe?This has me wondering-can we be friends too?

[jr45acp]

weird, of course we can be friends! Yes, believe it or not, this was a relative freebie. I did have to drive from Georgia to Mass to pick it up, but still was a sweet opportunity in my opinion. To date, have only identified one part needing replacement and that is a ball oiler on the feed selector box/cover or whatever it's called. The internals in the headstock look near perfect. I do have a considerable amount of cleanup to do, but that's part of the joy for me!

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John B

[Al Messer]

Congratulations!---on having friends of this caliber and for rescuing a good hunk of American-made IRON.

[jr45acp]

Thanks for your sentiment Al! Now I've encountered my first problem, albeit a relatively minor one. I've got one ball oiler that needs replacing. I know that the body is threaded into the part. The question is, how do I get the blasted thing out to put a new oiler unit in? Can't seem to get enough of a purchase with pliers to unscrew it! HELP!!!!

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John B

[wierdscience]

Well if its one of those little brass bodied ones you can square up the end of a piece of allen wrench on the grinder so its good and sharp around the corners and tap it into the ball hole effectively broaching a hex shaped hole,then turn it out with pliers like an easyout.

If its steel I use a dremel tool with either a burr or a cutting wheel and grind a good sized screwdriver slot in it.

I take it that since they gave you a lathe that they moved up the ranks to be "good friends"

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[MikeHenry]

John B.

Clausing will sell you a manual for $25 or so and can probably tell you date of manufacture, etc. A Google search fro "Clausing Service" should turn up contact info.

They'll need the S/N to make sure you get the right version - there are around 25 different manuals for the 5900-series lathes.

Mike