Beautiful old American Iron and Steel

Had to do some mods on the plate which delayed getting it running. I won't be home until Thursday so no joy until then.... I'm dying to see that lathe throwing real chips.
 
I am officially the owner of a fully functional Carroll Jamieson engine lathe. I ran it in each gear for a few minutes and made sure the feed gears were happy before I tried a cut. One range is louder and grumpier sounding. I'll pull the cover and look it over again.

I need to figure out the feed per revolution tomorrow. It appears that the feed is half what it says on the plate. I think I might know what that's about but I'll know more tomorrow.

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Batmanacw said:
The old girl will have feed gears again this Saturday. All the oil cups that have to do with oiling the shafts the gears ride on, do those get gear oil as well? I've got two oil cups on the carriage that oil the gears inside. I'm guessing gear oil for those also.

Any oil holes for ways I'm giving way oil.
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For the gears I would use chainsaw bar oil.

For the shafts 68.
 
So far she takes 0.1" a side with 0.008" per revolution at 6" diameter in mild steel okay, but you know she is working. Finish looks good. Faces nicely too.
 
Chuck adapter in the making.

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When I cut that radius it reminded me of the large lathes at Pres-rite in Jefferson Ohio, where i worked long ago. On those big bad boys a half inch radius cutter cut so beautifully. A 10mm radius cutter is barely useable on my little lathe.

She is grumpy and noisy but I'm pretty pleased so far.
 
Batmanacw said:
So far she takes 0.1" a side with 0.008" per revolution at 6" diameter in mild steel okay, but you know she is working. Finish looks good. Faces nicely too.
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Depending on the tooling that's respectable.
 
I am in the process of making a new backing plate for the 4 jaw chuck. I'm trying to make a thread gauge so I can check the internal threads as I cut them. The problem is the spindle nose threads have so much wear its difficult to directly duplicate them.

I cut the thread gauge to a very nice fit in the old backing plate. The problem is the old backing plate is a loose fit on the spindle. The pitch measures the same on both. I thought matching them would create a similar fit.
Now I'm worried .....Lol.

The new threads are a nice clean 60⁰ V and the old threads....not so much.

I'm tempted to just buy the 2 3/8-8 tap. I can partially thread it and finish with the tap.
 
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