G0709 Review

[dabear3428]

The lathe arrived from the factory with chipped paint everywhere. This has started to get on my nerves so while I was waiting for a McMaster-Carr order I got the thread dial sanded and re-painted.

The original, no paint on the top and paint chipped down the side.

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After, painted and baked in the oven. Kind of good that I took this apart to paint because it was gunked up with brass chips and sludge.

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Reinstalled. I disliked the copper indicator so I have a stainless inbound. Note the color difference, that's the closest I could get to Grizzly's off white. Someone called it 'putty' which is a good description. Thank god it's not the old Grizzly cream color which I found horrid. The color is a closer match, the digital camera made the Grizzly color look darker and the white whiter.

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That's it i'm blind now, are you happy!
nice work, nice lathe

 

[coolidge]

Well, now you've opened the can of worms, I've got to look over my lathe (LOL)! My X-axis scale went kaput after 8 years, I just stuck on a new one from TPactools.com ($110). I had the scale cable secured to the chip pan side of the taper attachment which is tough to access with the chip pan in place. So, I'm going to pull the pan and will do your mods once I get access. Thanks for all of the great info and improvements!

Another mod to consider is adding a couple of additional tick marks to your compound (thread below). It's not necessary, it was just a case of my OCD. My Clausing has tick marks for a full 360 while the Grizzly only had 120.

2016 POTD Thread Archive

The neighbour offered me a 100+ foot roll of armoured cable. Looked like it might make a good feed for 50 amp service to the blacksmith shop. We dug it out today, literally, the ends were buried in the ground. To our amazement it wasn't cable in the armour but 8 small plastic tubes and two...

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So many times I had wanted to pull the backsplash off in the past but didn't just because it was a pain, no longer!

 

[coolidge]

That's it i'm blind now, are you happy!
nice work, nice lathe

You want to clean your lathe (waves Jedi hand)

 

[coolidge]

 

[dabear3428]

You want to clean your lathe (waves Jedi hand)

wish i could, right now my lathe and mill are in the middle of a construction zone covered in plastic. but soon.

 

[coolidge]

Updates

1. Ripped down my old T8 fluorescent shop lights...installed 54,000 LED lumens.
2. Re-wired the lathe LED light. The junction box inside the light base was a joke, now soldered with heat shrink.
3. Leveled the lathe with the Starrett 199
4. Put a cardboard box over the new Bison chuck and spun the grease/oil off it. That would have made quite the mess.
5. Replaced the cheap screws, flange lock nuts on the tool holder with stainless.
6. Topped off the headstock oil. Looks like that leaking backsplash screw is no longer leaking.

First cut. Now I need to determine the centerline over the cross slide so I can set all the tool heights. Based on this test cut it's a bit higher than 1/2 of the swing listed in the machine specs.

 

[wachuko]

Wait!!! What!!??? Are those metal chips that I see!!??

 

[GeneT45]

Wait!!! What!!??? Are those metal chips that I see!!??

I know. It's disgusting how filthy some people let their machines get... ;-)

 

[wachuko]

I know. It's disgusting how filthy some people let their machines get... ;-)

I know I am

 

[coolidge]

I know. It's disgusting how filthy some people let their machines get... ;-)

Surgical operating room or my chips, it's a toss-up which is cleaner.