I went into a school as a workshop technician on a temporary basis (6 months turned into 2 years). Biggest problem I had was someone had done an oil change on one of the lathes (we had 6 metalworking lathes), trouble was somewhere they hadn't done something right, because it constantly lost oil. Never had time to find the source of the problem.
Nice trick! Unfortunately my machine just fills the gearboxes independently with no pump. The drain plugs are accessible, but opening them creates a royal mess even with appropriate funnels. That lathe is interesting; it reminds me a lot of a Monarch 10EE. I imagine it costs an arm and two legs to import the Mobil product to the UK. My machine specified Tellus 32 and 68, which is unobtainable in the US, but Mobil DTE maps to Shell Tellus, with the various numbers translating to the ISO viscosity, as I'm sure you're aware. I wound up buying a 5 gal bucket of DTE 24 (ISO 32) for the spindle gearbox and a couple gallons of DTE 26 (ISO 68) for the threading and apron gearboxes. Odd that your British lathe specified American oil and my purchased-in-US lathe specified Dutch oil.
Yes I suppose I could use a Variable speed control, but to be honest, the 4 speeds I have are more than adequate and I have machined many steam engine parts on this Lathe since the mid 1990s just as it is.
Adjusting your thinking from "Industrial Mode" to "Home Shop Mode" is sometimes very hard and I have scrapped quite a few pieces because my home shop equipment is very far from the rigidity of some of the Industrial equipment I used to use. Fortunatly we have your Videos to guide up.
My profound sympathies on the passing of the Queen. I grieve along with all of England.
Thank You :-(
What a lovely old lathe.
Thanks for your time.
Thank you for watching {:-)))
Nice machine keith
just goes to show ... speed is not always the best answer ... quality ... is always the bugger concern
I went into a school as a workshop technician on a temporary basis (6 months turned into 2 years). Biggest problem I had was someone had done an oil change on one of the lathes (we had 6 metalworking lathes), trouble was somewhere they hadn't done something right, because it constantly lost oil. Never had time to find the source of the problem.
Nice trick! Unfortunately my machine just fills the gearboxes independently with no pump. The drain plugs are accessible, but opening them creates a royal mess even with appropriate funnels. That lathe is interesting; it reminds me a lot of a Monarch 10EE.
I imagine it costs an arm and two legs to import the Mobil product to the UK. My machine specified Tellus 32 and 68, which is unobtainable in the US, but Mobil DTE maps to Shell Tellus, with the various numbers translating to the ISO viscosity, as I'm sure you're aware. I wound up buying a 5 gal bucket of DTE 24 (ISO 32) for the spindle gearbox and a couple gallons of DTE 26 (ISO 68) for the threading and apron gearboxes.
Odd that your British lathe specified American oil and my purchased-in-US lathe specified Dutch oil.
can you use a VFD or call a AC Variable Frequency Drives on the smart & brown lathe
Yes I suppose I could use a Variable speed control, but to be honest, the 4 speeds I have are more than adequate and I have machined many steam engine parts on this Lathe since the mid 1990s just as it is.
Adjusting your thinking from "Industrial Mode" to "Home Shop Mode" is sometimes very hard and I have scrapped quite a few pieces because my home shop equipment is very far from the rigidity of some of the Industrial equipment I used to use. Fortunatly we have your Videos to guide up.
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