I agree with @componenx. Having served on numerous navy ships, including a repair ship, I would say it could be mounted on the overhead, as long as the be is not twisted. I have my two lathes mounted on glue-up wooden bench tops (suggested by Atlas), and held down by two lag bolts through the from legs, allowing the rear ones to float. Works fine for me.
Leveling is not as important as getting rid of twists, sags, and making sure it's all in-plane. Think about lathes on ships- they will NEVER be truly level, but they can be in-plane and twist free. My main lathe actually has a "ship cabinet" with only three mounting points, two under the headstock and one under the tail stock.
Excellent video. I'm just getting into machining, have a 10" Atlas lathe, and I'm probably not going to get it dead on, but.....at least I know and understand now the hows and whys.
Newbie to lathe work, Joe you’re a great teacher, no BS straight to the point and easy to understand. Thank you! I bought a second hand Grizzly G0750G lathe and I decided to bolt the cabinets to the floor and make adjustable riser blocks between the cabinets/stands and the lathe. My thoughts are, because the stands aren’t ground true it would be easier/faster to true just the lathe and not both cabinets & lathe. Is this method asking for trouble?
Great video. I have recently got a Vevor 7x14 lathe. Watching your videos I learned a lot. I learned that my lathe is cutting a taper. Gets smaller going towards the chuck. I tried your suggestions to no avail... is there anything else I should try?
I loved your clarification of terms and examples. I am an amateur at best when it comes to this but I am not when it comes to sighting a rifle scope with a bore sight. Could a person not clamp a bore sight in the chuck and align the live center and head through the appropriate means using a laser? Why do people think the lathe has to be level? Sorry I need to understand. Thanks
Old video I know . I'll ask anyway. I have early 60's Craftsman 12" x 36" lathe made by Atlas. This is a bench-top model . It's mounted on a Wooden bench ( bought it this way )
I think the reason they say "levelled" is because most people have something that will accurately repeat "level", but not everyone would have something that can accurately repeats 3.842*.
Leveling is traditionally done with a machinist spirit level. That is where the term come for lack of better term. A lathe will work on ship during a storm, upside down, bolted on the wall or on the Moon. Clearly levelling has nothing to do with the horizon, is just an approximate term. Old timers were probably not so much literary scholar and picked a term they understood. Yes we say leveling but mean "untwisting" which is not an English word. And there lay the crux pf the problem.
Similarly, when I worked in pre-press layout dept. (stripping dept.) at a printing company, we had 60” T-squares that would ride on a straight edge on the side of a 4’x6’ light table. You would tape two pins down to the glass of the light table using the T-square and all the acetate sheets would be punched and register to those two pins. These T-squares were solid stainless with a machined steel head attached solidly with screws. A precision piece.
I agree with @componenx. Having served on numerous navy ships, including a repair ship, I would say it could be mounted on the overhead, as long as the be is not twisted. I have my two lathes mounted on glue-up wooden bench tops (suggested by Atlas), and held down by two lag bolts through the from legs, allowing the rear ones to float. Works fine for me.
Leveling is not as important as getting rid of twists, sags, and making sure it's all in-plane. Think about lathes on ships- they will NEVER be truly level, but they can be in-plane and twist free. My main lathe actually has a "ship cabinet" with only three mounting points, two under the headstock and one under the tail stock.
Makes a lot of sense…thanks Joe! 👍
Excellent video. I'm just getting into machining, have a 10" Atlas lathe, and I'm probably not going to get it dead on, but.....at least I know and understand now the hows and whys.
Thank you. A great explanation of lathe geometry. I will be checking mine now.
Newbie to lathe work, Joe you’re a great teacher, no BS straight to the point and easy to understand. Thank you! I bought a second hand Grizzly G0750G lathe and I decided to bolt the cabinets to the floor and make adjustable riser blocks between the cabinets/stands and the lathe. My thoughts are, because the stands aren’t ground true it would be easier/faster to true just the lathe and not both cabinets & lathe. Is this method asking for trouble?
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Excellent. Thank you sir.
Great video. I have recently got a Vevor 7x14 lathe. Watching your videos I learned a lot. I learned that my lathe is cutting a taper. Gets smaller going towards the chuck. I tried your suggestions to no avail... is there anything else I should try?
I loved your clarification of terms and examples. I am an amateur at best when it comes to this but I am not when it comes to sighting a rifle scope with a bore sight. Could a person not clamp a bore sight in the chuck and align the live center and head through the appropriate means using a laser? Why do people think the lathe has to be level? Sorry I need to understand. Thanks
tramming it is probably a better term
Thanks.
Old video I know . I'll ask anyway. I have early 60's Craftsman 12" x 36" lathe made by Atlas. This is a bench-top model . It's mounted on a Wooden bench ( bought it this way )
Mines made of metal ?.. Where do i buy one of these wooden ones ?.. Are they any good ?
They have lathes on ships that rock and roll…
@ Joe Pie This is precision seeker's gold.I don't know how I wasn't able to see this video before. Thank you.
I think the reason they say "levelled" is because most people have something that will accurately repeat "level", but not everyone would have something that can accurately repeats 3.842*.
Leveling is traditionally done with a machinist spirit level. That is where the term come for lack of better term. A lathe will work on ship during a storm, upside down, bolted on the wall or on the Moon. Clearly levelling has nothing to do with the horizon, is just an approximate term. Old timers were probably not so much literary scholar and picked a term they understood. Yes we say leveling but mean "untwisting" which is not an English word. And there lay the crux pf the problem.
Similarly, when I worked in pre-press layout dept. (stripping dept.) at a printing company, we had 60” T-squares that would ride on a straight edge on the side of a 4’x6’ light table. You would tape two pins down to the glass of the light table using the T-square and all the acetate sheets would be punched and register to those two pins. These T-squares were solid stainless with a machined steel head attached solidly with screws. A precision piece.
I did not appreciate the longitudinal axis tilt of the head stock until now. I am now going to do some investigating.