Threading at 400 RPM



I have this lathe a Wabeco D6000E. It was one of the ones in the article by Graham and there are drawings online for the parts but I can't seem to find a complete set of plans.

Does someone know where the drawings are for this lathe?

Also, I would be interested in buying a complete clutch kit if someone would make it for me or let me know where I could buy one.

EDIT: I ordered the HSM magazine with the Grizzly setup in it with drawings for the gear case. Looks like a simple 2 operation CNC job for the gear case. I'll draw the Grizzly one in Autodesk Inventor from the magazine specs and upload the CNC .dwg for anyone to have a CNC shop or their own CNC mill do it. I know it is a nice project for someone with a mill and a boring head but some people might like to just have the CNC part done and work with the rest as a project for their lathe.

I still would like to be pointed toward some Wabeco D6000E specific drawings if anyone knows where they are.
 
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I just discovered this thread and I'm totally amazed by the mods Jim comes up with and this one is "out of the park" good.

I see that back issues of the magazine article are no longer available, so does anyone know where I can get copies or enough info to produce this mod. I would be happy to buy the magazine issues from someone that has no use for them any longer or has already completed the build.
 
HBilly1022 said:
I just discovered this thread and I'm totally amazed by the mods Jim comes up with and this one is "out of the park" good.

I see that back issues of the magazine article are no longer available, so does anyone know where I can get copies or enough info to produce this mod. I would be happy to buy the magazine issues from someone that has no use for them any longer or has already completed the build.
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Just search eBay with the month and year of the issue and you can get it. Earlier in this thread the issue info is there.
 
Bravo to you sir. I my self have done thousands and thousands of threading jobs. When I started this trade
to be a hero to get my 49 Ford speedometer needle to a 100? best that did was 90. Whats that mean?
My lathe rpms were up there, NOW low range & back gears just like I started out in high school. Simple
answer, my eyes don't connect with brain no mo. Half nut don't connect to brain no mo. Uggg!
Did one yesterday on 4 inch by already forgot; a balmy 1/2 hour for the water plant. I now say so what,
take it somewhere else. so there is no somewhere else round here. so I get the work . clear as mud...........
So I charged them an hour @ 100 bucks. there ya go ah
 
Ok , now I have to try and make and modify one for my logan 11" . Geesh the amount of projects keep growing, hope my wheelchair and I can get to all of them. But this may move way up front.
Jim a great big THANK YOU SIR.
 
I have that exact same Wabeco lathe as in the video. I was able to track down Gram the original inventor and email back and forth to sort out what it would take to do that on my lathe. The sticking point for me was making the gears.

That lathe has an electronic controlled motor with forward and reverse. Right now I thread by leaving the half nut closed, advance to the end, turn off the lathe and flip the switch to reverse, turn back on retracting the bit in reverse.

So for me it is going to be an electric solution. Can have same lever and set stops as the mechanical one but with some switching relays with delays built in it will have same function to advance forward then reverse automatically and I would just retract in the two second delay before reverse then advance the compound and deretract the bit on forward.
 
I just took the lid off my round head Colchester Triumph, and discovered the lathe was screaming for this modification, but on my lathe, most things was already in place, and it would be quite easy to build this mod inside the head.

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The two gears in the middle of the picture are joined, the one in the right drives a gear on the output shaft in one direction, this gear can be moved to the other side with a lever, there it catches the lower counter rotating gear driven by the other gear, and drives the output shaft in the other direction. If the lower gear (not seen on the picture, because of the oil) was replaced with two gears same size, but running free on bearings/bushes in each position, a dog clutch should be placed in between, driving the output shaft, and Bob's your uncle

PS: if anyone was wondering, the gears on the main spindle and output shaft is the same size, I was reading the explanation about how the gear sizes didn't matter, but got more confused than before, the real important figure is that the spindle and dog gear runs the same speed, otherwise it won't work
 
@JimSchroeder

Hi Jim I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this....both the HSM article and answering questions here.

I was able to order the mar/apr 2015 as a back-issue, but so far have been unable to find the jan/feb issue.
Actually, I do see one on ebay:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/The-Home-Sho...44298&clkid=131978159766641824&_qi=RTM2247625
but at US $11.97 Approximately C $16.00 and US $15.50 (approx. C $20.72) shipping that's one expensive magazine issue!

I do hope to eventually find a copy.

-brino
 
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