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- Nov 21, 2017
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Hey new guy here. My 2nd post and will no doubt have lots of questions. Hope to learn all I can and do a lot of reading. I had posted some of this regarding this project on my intro post.
I picked up an old barn find wood lathe from out in the woods for about free a month ago. I know about next to nothing about lathes and what I do know is just enough to be dangerous. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it but though it may be fun to restore it and maybe get it up and running again. It's a Spencer lathe that is stamped 1906. Most of the parts are there and in pretty good shape.
So far I have cleaned up the lathe and removed the old paint. I built a stand for it and secured it. Repurposed a treadmill motor for it and wired it up. Last week powered it up for the first time. Surprisingly I got the old girl to spin up. Unfortunately there is about a 32nd inch of wobble at the chuck. This is where I'm at now with the project... Trying to true up the old machine.
Some pics before I stripped the paint.
I picked up an old barn find wood lathe from out in the woods for about free a month ago. I know about next to nothing about lathes and what I do know is just enough to be dangerous. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it but though it may be fun to restore it and maybe get it up and running again. It's a Spencer lathe that is stamped 1906. Most of the parts are there and in pretty good shape.
So far I have cleaned up the lathe and removed the old paint. I built a stand for it and secured it. Repurposed a treadmill motor for it and wired it up. Last week powered it up for the first time. Surprisingly I got the old girl to spin up. Unfortunately there is about a 32nd inch of wobble at the chuck. This is where I'm at now with the project... Trying to true up the old machine.
Some pics before I stripped the paint.