Central Machinery 12x36 lathe parts

[funkyfazel]

Hello everyone,
Thank you to everyone who helped me with my last issue of getting my lathe Chuck locked into place. I have since got all the parts and now the chuck works great. My new issue now is I'm looking for parts for the saddle. I need the lead screw, dial and all the parts to hold it on. Does anybody know where to get actual parts for this machine. I bought some grizzly parts that I thought would work. They are not the same so I have to send them back.

 

[GlenF]

I have the same machine, fortunately I haven't needed any parts for mine since I set it up years ago (don't use it very often). My cross slide screw was bent when I received it and HF didn't carry parts anymore (2012). They wanted me to ship the whole machine back (not easy since I'm in Canada). I tried the Grizzly route for replacements, but they were different pitches. Just straightened mine out in the press.

Good luck with your search. If you do find a source I'd appreciate it if you could put it in the post. Some day I might need something too.

Glen

 

[matthewsx]

Hello everyone,
Thank you to everyone who helped me with my last issue of getting my lathe Chuck locked into place. I have since got all the parts and now the chuck works great. My new issue now is I'm looking for parts for the saddle. I need the lead screw, dial and all the parts to hold it on. Does anybody know where to get actual parts for this machine. I bought some grizzly parts that I thought would work. They are not the same so I have to send them back. View attachment 482611

What happened to this machine?

I don’t have a saddle but do have a compound that was from another 12x36. No way to know if it would work until you find the saddle.

Assume you’ve already hit up HF?

John

 

[Nesse1]

Back in the day when that machine was made, there was a flood of similar, but different, machines coming out of china, so finding exact match parts is going to be challenging.

Can you repair that screw? A good welder could likely weld a spud on the end, which you can machine with whatever threads needed to hold the handle on. And for the handle and dial, could you bush/bore out some similar parts and make them work?

 

[funkyfazel]

What happened to this machine?

I don’t have a saddle but do have a compound that was from another 12x36. No way to know if it would work until you find the saddle.

Assume you’ve already hit up HF?

John

I have the saddle for it. I removed it to clean it up. I tried HF but no luck, the lathe was made in 1996 and the don't even list it as a machine that they have parts for.

 

[funkyfazel]

Back in the day when that machine was made, there was a flood of similar, but different, machines coming out of china, so finding exact match parts is going to be challenging.

Can you repair that screw? A good welder could likely weld a spud on the end, which you can machine with whatever threads needed to hold the handle on. And for the handle and dial, could you bush/bore out some similar parts and make them work?

I got out in the shop yesterday and got the lead screw fixed. I was able to turn it down and thread it for a new handle I made.