Mini lathe Restoration

[piper1]

Been working on a little restoration project the last couple of days.
Picked it up last year and it’s just been sat in a box in the back of the garage since.
Pretty happy with the progress, just need to sort out a suitable motor now.

[decoy]

you good at polishing things

[thatguy]

nice work. Would love one of those with a 4 jaw chuck.

[piper1]

Aug 3, 2014 17:21:55 GMT thatguy said:

nice work. Would love one of those with a 4 jaw chuck.

The mini lathes are good but your limited to what you can do (small stuff).
This one is about 45 years old and it stood the test of time.
I've had to make another drive shaft for it but the rest is still good.

[osdset]

Nice work piper1.
That's how old machinery should look, nicely worn in and shiny.

[wibble]

nice bit of restoration there

[chuck]

Lovely transformation, well done.

[Deleted]

I used to have one of those... its actually an old Emco Unimat, i used to run it with an electric scooter motor and variable speed controler.... it was a great little thing..

[thatguy]

Aug 3, 2014 19:56:50 GMT piper1 said:

Aug 3, 2014 17:21:55 GMT thatguy said:

nice work. Would love one of those with a 4 jaw chuck.

The mini lathes are good but your limited to what you can do (small stuff).
This one is about 45 years old and it stood the test of time.
I've had to make another drive shaft for it but the rest is still good.

  They might be limited but have enough swing for vaping work and cant see length being too much of an issue.  Besides, these old mini lathes are usually pretty heavy which reduces the vibration problems many of the new ones have.  This is made worse by the looser tolerance on modern lathes(well, the ones available at lower prices)

Working in a school that may be moving to a new building in a year or two, so hope to steal one of their old boxford AUD lathes.


Been able to produce surprisingly accurate work with this beastie.  Only problem is I'll need to install it at my mothers ATM, no space here for a full size lathe.

Now..if only they were getting rid of their laser cutter and CNC router....

[VapingBad]

Aug 10, 2014 22:27:15 GMT thatguy said:

Aug 3, 2014 19:56:50 GMT piper1 said:

The mini lathes are good but your limited to what you can do (small stuff).
This one is about 45 years old and it stood the test of time.
I've had to make another drive shaft for it but the rest is still good.

  They might be limited but have enough swing for vaping work and cant see length being too much of an issue.  Besides, these old mini lathes are usually pretty heavy which reduces the vibration problems many of the new ones have.  This is made worse by the looser tolerance on modern lathes(well, the ones available at lower prices)

Working in a school that may be moving to a new building in a year or two, so hope to steal one of their old boxford AUD lathes.


Been able to produce surprisingly accurate work with this beastie.  Only problem is I'll need to install it at my mothers ATM, no space here for a full size lathe.

Now..if only they were getting rid of their laser cutter and CNC router....

You are welcome to install it in my shed, I'll even get in a bottle of Ardbeg

[thatguy]

there could be 2 aud and one cud going. I'll post again if I can grab more than one. Should have 3 and 4 jaw chucks and some ecent tool holders for tungsten carbide tools. Only problem for most people is they are currently 3 phase, but can be converted to single phase.

[enjay]

Dam! I've got the wood version that I don't think I'll ever use but it's has it's own base and a nice big motor with belts. If only I had that lathe in my possession lol