Recent content by roblarss

Thanks for all the replies and all of the info I now have to digest. Ill definitely oil harder and cover things up. Ill see about moving a few items around to give the lathe a fighting chance.

Thanks for the info on how to setup the follower. Im going to clean it up and get it setup. I agree the lathe is terribly dirty. I did give it very thorough cleaning when i brought it home as it was sitting in an open lean to. I am going to give it a good cleaning and oiling this week. I...

Apparantely its been im my small town since the beginning of time. With the lack of cleaning ive given it may combust. Ways are a little sloppy. Came with a pallet of tooling/multiple steadys/3 jaw/4 jaw chuck.

One dovetail will come off. With some cleanup it seems like it may just fit with zero clearance. Anyone know much about these lathes? Had it for a few months and don’t see much online about them. 15” swing 77” long.

Would I be correct in assuming it mounted over here? Seems to a to narrow and no way to lock it down

That was quick. Makes sense now that im looking at it. Now to clean it up and try it out one day. Ill have many more things to figure out on this lathe. Thanks

Any idea what this tool is for? I bought an old Willson lathe with alot of tooling. This may not even be for this lathe as I cant figure out where it can fit to slide over. Thanks