Vernon Lathe, From The Farm.

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Brought home my first lathe last week, just putting this thread out there to document the work and hopefully get some friendly advice.

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Heavy duty grinder stand, probably not OSHA approved.

Then I pulled the truck away and...

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Thats how I unload a lathe all by my self. No need to hit the gym that day!

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I was exhausted but I fared better than my assistant did.

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Looks like it has a lot in common with this old Sebastian lathe I recently posted about, with the exception of quick change gearbox on yours and the gap bed on mine. Very similar ways and other components. The square headed bolts definitely date it to the same era. Will look forward to watching it come along. Cheers, Mike
http://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/old-sebastian-lathe.52540/
 
Looks like it has a lot in common with this old Sebastian lathe I recently posted about, with the exception of quick change gearbox on yours and the gap bed on mine. Very similar ways and other components. The square headed bolts definitely date it to the same era. Will look forward to watching it come along. Cheers, Mike
http://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/old-sebastian-lathe.52540/
I'll check your thread out as part of the mystery of my machine is that its manufacturer was only around for about 5 years then folded. This makes info and parts hard to come by so if another machine has similarities it may be very helpful to me.

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Got some parts bubbling away in the electrolysis bucket.

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The bubbling is the easy part. The toil and trouble that Shakespeare alluded to should be along shortly. ;) Mike
 
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Back gear lever is broken and the gears are frozen tight to their shaft, I can pivot it into the cone pulley gears with effort though. Looks like back gear hasnt been used in a long time.

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The carrage gears mostly look good despite being dry as a bone, the exception being the power feed assembly.

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The worm gear part is worn badly, not surprising since it looks to have been run dry. The companion gear (not sure what it is called) is also worn.

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One mystery is the clutch/cone assembly.

This taper pin was almost out when I got the machine, the other must have fallen out some time ago.

But upon inspection I cant figure how it all goes together, if two pins this long go into the cone/clutch they probably go through the C clip shown here. But then in the gear there is a single hole and two shallow recesses. If they go in the recesses they cant seat fully in the cone and there is only the one hole.

Besides that if the pins go through the cone and engage with the gear body at all while it is released the gear will still be driven. Most likely the pin was a poor replacement that doesnt belong at all. Perhaps the pins originally retained the C clip, the clip was off center and slightly wedged against the lip on the cone so that might be it.

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The bubbling is the easy part. The toil and trouble that Shakespeare alluded to should be along shortly. ;) Mike
I hope so, is my first attempt. I think I might just be getting the adapter clean and the corrosion between both parts is keeping the faceplate from being affected, because I'm only seeing bubbles around the shaft.

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I wonder why the selector lever put up such a fight trying to move through the range.

No pics but the QC gears were about as dry as the apron gears, might be the left hand gear train is all that got lubed semi regularly.

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Small parts after squatting over a bucket of mineral spirits with a toothbrush for far to long, almost didnt get back up!

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Gotta call shenanigans on this I tried searching for OE style hardware but Im not sure what to call them, diagrams for the operation of lathes call them compound slide locks but google doesnt show me replacements that look like what I need. I know other machines use similar tapered locks so I hope I can get some universal replacements.

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Electrolytic bath early this afternoon

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And before shutting it down for the night. Still a long way to go but where the rust was less severe its already down to black.

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