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Nice work, Sebashtion!!!
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These some of the upgrades on my lathe.
My lathe didn't come with a splash shied. so I made one out of 1/2 in acrylic.
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0373.jpg
and i upgraded the Gib screws on the cross slide and the coumpound.
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0400.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0399.jpg
I also decided for certian cuts I wanted a gaurd so i made one of them also..
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0372.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0375.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0374.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0385.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0383.jpg
This is the polish I used to make the guard soooooo shiny..
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0376.jpg
next is the hand wheels I want to make larger......
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...e/IMG_0401.jpg
thank you all for the help in making this a great lathe
Sebashtion H.
Last edited by emh114; 12-30-2010 at 05:43 PM.
Nice work, Sebashtion!!!
Wen I was young, I spent most of my money on fast women, slow horses, and cheap booze. The rest of it I just wasted.
Thank you,Originally Posted by knudsen
I have really enjoyed learning on this lathe.... this is my first experence with working with metal. I am a woodworker with only woodworking skills, so this has been a learning process.....
I have come to realize that you can only do so much at a time...
and I also like the fact that you can use the tool to make parts to fix itself and make it better....
I still have a lot to learn for what I am trying to do but...... it is fun and that is all that matters
Sebashtion H.
Amen.it is fun and that is all that matters
Wen I was young, I spent most of my money on fast women, slow horses, and cheap booze. The rest of it I just wasted.
Very nice, I love that little Jet. Thae actually make fairly decent equipment, IMHO. Used to run a 13" ( I think) Jet at one of my previous job. It was an awesome little machine, until the boss dropped it while trying to move it with a fork truck.
Beer is always good. If you can't figure it out on beer, it's not worthwhile. - knudsen
Nice upgrades.
I noticed you are using a QC tool post. Are you using 3/8 or 1/2" tools? It seems to me that the tool height will not go low enough with 1/2" tools. Is that your experience?
Thanks
Robert
I am using 3/8 and smaller..... I am ordering a mill soon, and then I will mill down the top of the compound to have full use of the tool height....
Sebashtion H.
I forgot to mention in the list of things I did to my 9x20 is that I lapped the cross slide and compound. This helped out greatly........... but took forever
This is how I came across the metal polish, I followed the instructions here
Mike Taglieri's Lapping Procedure
but I also used a heaver grit lapping compound bought at the auto supply store
as the mothers was taking forever ( not that the process did not take 3 days anyway) but I feel this was time well spent to improve the lathe....
this led to me doing the same to the vice I bought......
which was another 2-3 days of work,
Sebashtion H.
Let us know how much you need to take off the compound and how it works out.
R
Good on you for doing the lapping. PITA, but I believe whatever you can do to improve the slides on most Chinese machines gives you the most bang for the buck. Brass gibs might help too, if you are not fully satisfied with ease of adjustment. Pretty easy project once you get your mill. They don't even have to be very parallel to outperform the original CI. This, assuming you don't have tapered gibs. Tapered gibs are a God-send. Once you go tapered, you'll never go back. Didn't that use to rhyme?
Wen I was young, I spent most of my money on fast women, slow horses, and cheap booze. The rest of it I just wasted.
My compound was not that bad..... still took off a lot of the high spots,the cross slide on the other hand....
I followed the instructions on the link I gave and in the Cross slide action improvment by john Pitkin.( I don't remember where I got that from)
I Took it down to almost all the metal being glossy. leaving some for the oil to sit in and not have the suction effect.....
night and day difference on operation now..... well worth the time and effort to do....
Sebashtion H.
Hi All,
I have an Axminster BV20M lathe (discontinued as from the new 2011 catalogue as is its big brother the BV30M) and was wondering if anyone knows whether a kit of parts is available to convert the tailstock to a cam-lock system in place of the fitted nut system.
Was hoping perhaps that getting a kit might save me the time on making all the parts myself.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Rob
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