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Except for waiting for that 'slow boat' once they are ready.
I'm stockpiling my pennies in anticipation...
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Except for waiting for that 'slow boat' once they are ready.
I'm stockpiling my pennies in anticipation...
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Does anyone have a published gear box conversion table worked up?
Hi, Nor for sure what you mean by
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If you are asking how the gears are laid out inside the gear box you can search on Norton gear box and see one approach that is easy to understand, how ever many lathes do not use the Norton box look at the manuals to "sort of see" the arrangements of gears in various lathes. My own limited experience is that these drawing are commonly in error and do not make sense on the lathes commonly discussed on this forum.
Dave L.
If you mean the possible generated TPI there are various tables for various lathes listed on this forum. My own version tries to enable most lathe models:
TPI Feeds X-Feeds: Generalized Excel file for your Lathe
TPI Feeds X-Feeds: Generalized Excel file for your Lathe Hi Folks, My PM1440GT lathe manual only showed a few of the possible threading values and it appeared to me that the Feed rates were incorrect. They were. Hence, I set about to figure out what all possible TPI could be achieved via...
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If you are asking how the gears are laid out inside the gear box you can search on Norton gear box and see one approach that is easy to understand, how ever many lathes do not use the Norton box look at the manuals to "sort of see" the arrangements of gears in various lathes. My own limited experience is that these drawing are commonly in error and do not make sense on the lathes commonly discussed on this forum.
Dave L.