I am posting this as the topic grew out of Raul's posting about a Hook Tool earlier this week. This is a modified description I had put together in 2004 when I was selling it. Turned into quite an adventure finding the originals of my photos. They were on a CD-ROM that would not read with my Notebook, but when I booted up our old XP Desktop in Safe Mode managed to get them as well as others I had lost track of from the first months of my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 995.
It was custom built in the early 90's. The fellow that made it was a friend of a Golden Horseshoe Guild member and apparently made a few of them. It is a pedestal of 10" tubular steel about 57" high. The Bed is 22" long and 37" from the floor. Spindle is 12" over the bed for 24" capacity. Spindle height is about 48" from the floor. The bed has a small 6" long right angled extension projecting out towards the operator, located 8" from the pedestal or about 5" from the face of the spindle. The spindle is 1 1/4" x 7 TPI RH thread which is a standard machinist size and mounted in two pulley blocks which are attached to the exterior pedestal wall with Cap Screws. It has a hollow spindle (just under 11/16") with 1 1/4" x 7 TPI LH thread on the outboard side. The banjo is a General with an extended height support for the tool rest. It has a general 12” tool rest and a Delta S-curved bowl tool rest.
The motor is a 2 HP, 220 Volts with a three position pulley and there is a Jackshaft arrangement in the Pedestal with both the drive belt and the output belt on the same pulley with a four position pulley on the spindle which provides a variety of speeds from about 145 RPM to 2600 RPM. It has a Magnetic Starter Switch. I have a spreadsheet I generated to know the speeds. Before being struck with the notion of buying the 2436, I was intending to put a 2 HP VFD on it, but never got to it with all the commotion of our move.
It is an extremely robust lathe and weighs easily in excess of 400 pounds. It is an excellent lathe to turn bowls on as you have full access to the face of the bowl without arching your back.
It was custom built in the early 90's. The fellow that made it was a friend of a Golden Horseshoe Guild member and apparently made a few of them. It is a pedestal of 10" tubular steel about 57" high. The Bed is 22" long and 37" from the floor. Spindle is 12" over the bed for 24" capacity. Spindle height is about 48" from the floor. The bed has a small 6" long right angled extension projecting out towards the operator, located 8" from the pedestal or about 5" from the face of the spindle. The spindle is 1 1/4" x 7 TPI RH thread which is a standard machinist size and mounted in two pulley blocks which are attached to the exterior pedestal wall with Cap Screws. It has a hollow spindle (just under 11/16") with 1 1/4" x 7 TPI LH thread on the outboard side. The banjo is a General with an extended height support for the tool rest. It has a general 12” tool rest and a Delta S-curved bowl tool rest.
The motor is a 2 HP, 220 Volts with a three position pulley and there is a Jackshaft arrangement in the Pedestal with both the drive belt and the output belt on the same pulley with a four position pulley on the spindle which provides a variety of speeds from about 145 RPM to 2600 RPM. It has a Magnetic Starter Switch. I have a spreadsheet I generated to know the speeds. Before being struck with the notion of buying the 2436, I was intending to put a 2 HP VFD on it, but never got to it with all the commotion of our move.
It is an extremely robust lathe and weighs easily in excess of 400 pounds. It is an excellent lathe to turn bowls on as you have full access to the face of the bowl without arching your back.
