I just cleaned up a 3 inch craftsman metal lathe - it's missing parts needed for metal working (like the whole gear assembly) but it has a nice cross slide and the worm gear is good so it would make a decent pen lathe if you wanted uniform straight barrels - you will need to either find, make or jury rig a quill for the tailstock, but other than that it's OK to use as is - I can get around $150 to $200 if I take my time parting it out, but I'd rather it find a home quickly - so if someone is interested, drop me a note via the email address on my web page - I figure $75 is fair. Oh, the spindle thread is 1/2-20, and it's a 0 morse taper, bronze bearings, so it's light duty - never to be a bowl lathe - could also be useful for making any other round parts that need to fit, and of course you can do metal working (but not threading - you need the gears for that).
anyone want a small lathe for pen turning
Dec 24, 2009
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How did you measure the '3 inch'.
Mart> I just cleaned up a 3 inch craftsman metal lathe - it's missing parts
from center of the spindle to the ways
- Call it "Swing over bed" = 6"
- Radius = 3"
- Distance between Centers - how long a rod can be placed to be worked upon.
- Length of bed (biggest gripe with me ) the length of physical ways (not usable or machinable region) = under the bed to farthest end under the tailstock. Martin
Bill Noble wrote:
right - swing over bed is 6 inches, radius is 3, distance between centers is
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