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Dana Fish

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Hello all, I'm new to the forum and am looking forward to conversing with you all. I have only played around with the use oa lathe off and on in the past but came across a great deal on CL and couldn't pass it up.

My new lathe finally has made it home today. It doesn't appear to be in overall bad shape but is definitely in need of rust removal, maybe waxed of the slides, etc.

Here are a few pictures to share but I also have a few questions on how to clean her up and also where can I find a replace jaw for this type of lathe.
I'll leave the floor open for comments or suggestion as to what to do to her first to get thing up an running.

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Thanks for your time....
Cheers
 
Dana, I don't know what you mean by needing to "replace a jaw", could you try to expand the description?
 
Dana, most of the company's producing chucks have inserts to fit different spindles.
First thing you need to know is, what is the spindle size and thread.
PM 3520B has a 1 1/4" 8 threads per inch.
I don't know what Sears put on their old lathes.😕
 
OWM has a 4 page pdf of the "operating instructions and parts list" for that lathe. The manual is dated January 1947.

Click here for the manual
 
Also, doing a Google search for 103.21600 shows a few links with photos.
It does not appear that this lathe has a threaded spindle.

Click here to see a fair restoration
 
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Dana, welcome to the wonderful work of turning and coincidentally, the wonderful world of Old Woodworking Machine restoration (OWWM).

Al pointed you to the definitive source for machine manuals and pics; the companion site to the .com site is OWWM.org. There you will find a forum for posting your pics and questions about restoring your lathe.

Please post you pics and questions on the OWWM.org site and sit back and wait for the flood of info and encouragement.

Best regards, Tom, in Douglasville, knowing one suggestion will be get new bearings from Accurate!
 
Jake Debski said:
Dana, I don't know what you mean by needing to "replace a jaw", could you try to expand the description?
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I guess I what I am looking for is to replace the spindle with some sort of chuck to be able to turn wood which is set on a mandrel. I understand that I will have to replace both the head and tail in order to do this. I am thinking of turning pens and using a pen mandrel to do so. I also want to turn inserts and handle for my crafted fly rods.

Is this possible with this lathe?

Dana
 
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that you're lacking a motor. All the pen making mandrels I've seen start from a morse taper or screw on the spindle (though rod builders commonly use a straight rod in a drill chuck for the mandrel set up), so probably your other place to start is how to convert what you've got on the headstock spindle to either a morse or screw.
Dean
 
Dean Center said:
...so probably your other place to start is how to convert what you've got on the headstock spindle to either a morse or screw.
Dean
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This is exactly what I am looking to do. Anyone have any thoughts are ideas as to how to do this?


PS.... the motor is a 1125 rpm with a triple pulley.
 
If the spindle is 5/8, you can use the Shopsmith insert used with many chucks. Even if it is not, you might have an opportunity to thread it to fit an appropriate insert in 3/4 or 7/8 diameter. Though if the Dunlop was 5/8, I'd expect the craftsman to be the same. Collet or scroll chucks work for pens.

That's the way I'd go, but you'd still have to grab a mandrel, a live center for the tail and some other paraphernalia. Work up your list of lathe-unique parts and their price before you take too long a leap. Might find a mini of a modern sort is a cheaper acquisition.

Meantime, get out the WD40 or your flavor of rust breaker and have at it gently.
 
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I started the breakdown and clean process today.

Everything is complete broken down and neatly organized on the bench. I started with a soft wire wheel on my drill to work off some of the dirt rust and other debris.

So far so good, the results on the base are much better than I had expect with just the simple method.

I'm hoping that over the next few days I will have all parts rust free, cleaned and ready for priming this weekend. I'm considering stepping away from the original Battleship Gray and going with a Forest Green or Navy Blue paint. I know that this may effect the history of the restoration and any possible resale value but my goal is to simply recreate a safe and properly operating machine.

I'm still in search of a spindle adapter, chuck and a live center for the tail stock.
 
Dana Fish, welcome to this forum. I saw your post on another forum regarding your lathe. You will enjoy this forum and have a ton of information available, as you have already seen. What will you be turning on it?
 
John Torchick said:
Dana Fish, welcome to this forum. I saw your post on another forum regarding your lathe. You will enjoy this forum and have a ton of information available, as you have already seen. What will you be turning on it?
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I will be initially be turning fly rod inserts/handles out of various woods but mainly birch and pine bark (as these have been a personal favorite over the years.).

I would like to work into Bar taps handles, wine stoppers and accessories too since I'm an avid Homebrewer as well.
 
Dana are you any were close to a local chaper of the AAW if so you can join a locl chaper and get a lot of hands on help from club members.
I am asumeing that that lathe has bushing instead of bearings,check the wear of the bushings if you have play( between spindle and bushing) in the bushings it will transfer to your work.
Good luck
 
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