Monarch 1944 12" CK

[Charles scozzari]

Hi, I wasn't on this site when you posted this but very nice restoration on a beautiful lathe. You did a great job, now you can enjoy it.

 

[rabler]

Hi, I wasn't on this site when you posted this but very nice restoration on a beautiful lathe. You did a great job, now you can enjoy it.

Thanks Charles
I do have more work on it that needs to be done. I like coming back to a working machine and progressing in small steps. The underside of the carriage will get a turcite treatment at some point, and the tailstock quill needs to be relaced. I’m currently working on finishing a new shop, but more will be added to this thread when get back to this lathe.

 

[slodat]

Lathe looks great!

Do you have more photos of your gantry? Specifically, what it looks like on the back of the lathe. I need to do this on my Pacemaker. Chucks are too heavy to manhandle safely.

 

[rabler]

Lathe looks great!

Do you have more photos of your gantry? Specifically, what it looks like on the back of the lathe. I need to do this on my Pacemaker. Chucks are too heavy to manhandle safely.

I'm in the middle of moving the shop around (finishing construction on a new shop) so things are a mess. Best I can get right now:
The headstock sits on a square frame of 2x2 steel tube (well, actually a couple of solid 2x2 cubes welded to the tube). The tubing sticks out the back and a piece of 3" pipe is welded to that with some braces.

 

[MyLilMule]

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[rabler]

Someone on Fakebook is using one of your photos to likely try and scam people.

Appreciate the heads up. I clicked "report" (as counterfeit) but there isn't any other obvious way to follow up with FB. Not going to put more effort into it, facebook strikes me as pretty much uninterested in policing their marketplace.

 

[MyLilMule]

It's a sad place indeed. I see story after story of someone lamenting that they sent $300 via Venmo to someone for a set of micrometers, or tooling, or whatever, that should be $1,500. Whenever I see a too-good-to-be-true deal, I do a reverse image search on one of the photos and invariably will find the exact same photo on an eBay listing that sold for 4 times the Fakebook asking price.

 

[woodchucker]

Always try to buy in person. And carry a big stick, or German shepherd