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Shop Fox Lathe

I have run across old posts on several turning sites that stated the Shop Fox lathes are the same
as the Grizzly lathes. The only difference is they are painted a different color.
Has anyone ordered lathe parts for a Shop Fox from Grizzly?
 
I had the same lathe and needed parts. I got them from a place called Third Devil that is linked from the shop fox website. Ordered a spindle, had to be machined in china and then shipped, took a couple months. Cheap though.

I had lots of fun learning with that lathe over the last year, I just upgraded recently and am moving it on to another to learn. The belts will wear on the reeves drive. The replacement you want is the Gates Truflex 1240. Luckily they are only like $4. I got bearings at a local bearing place, they are nothing special.
 
Looking at rhe illustrated parts breakdown for the Shop Fox, the design is very similar to the Delta 46-715 in many respects, especially the Reeves drive. Parts are no longer available for the Delta, but there is a possibility that the Shop Fox Reeves pulleys would fit the Delta. I have the type 1 version of the Delta which has a 25 mm spindle. The type 2 version has a 23 mm spindle. The motor shaft on the Delta is 5/8" diameter
 
Shop Fox and Grizzly are identical. They used a different color of paint and changed the name so independent sellers could purchase from Grizzly and resell a line of import machinery without using the Grizzly name.
 
Richard, actually not always (per the owner of both Grizzly and Shop Fox).
Some models of Grizzly and Shop Fox only differ by paint color
Some models may appear the same, but they are made in different factories and are not identical
 
If you look at the owners manual and parts break-down you can usually discern if they
are different or the same in design. My main concern is finding a reliable parts supplier
that can provide parts and service. Too many industries are manufacturing a product and
then "obsoleting" the product after a decade or two and not providing spare parts to maintain
the existing equipment in the market. With many of the products produced overseas the problem
is exacerbated with having a reliable source of parts and service as years pass. The race towards
the bottom of the price point takes it's toll on quality and service on the other end.
 
Mike Johnson said:
If you look at the owners manual and parts break-down you can usually discern if they
are different or the same in design. My main concern is finding a reliable parts supplier
that can provide parts and service. Too many industries are manufacturing a product and
then "obsoleting" the product after a decade or two and not providing spare parts to maintain
the existing equipment in the market. With many of the products produced overseas the problem
is exacerbated with having a reliable source of parts and service as years pass. The race towards
the bottom of the price point takes it's toll on quality and service on the other end.
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The latest un-word is EOL (meaning end of life of a product) and permutations such as EOLed and EOLing are used with reference to the date that support ceases for a product. Frequently that is the same date that production ceases or, at best, when inventory runs out.
 
EOL is not supposed to be the same as the expiration date on a gallon of milk.
For decades you could purchase a product from Sears or (Fill in the Blank) and expect to
purchase spare parts for the "life" of the product. With so many products being made overseas
the trend has been to obsolete the item and parts are no longer available.

I purchased a large quantity of explosion proof LED fixtures for one of the facilities I maintain and the factory said they did not sell repair parts for the fixtures after we purchased them. On our next expansion project I got a quote on another large quantity of LED fixtures for the next project. I asked the factory if they had spare parts for the fixtures, they said no and I told them the order was going to a manufacturer that could supply parts. Magically I was provided spare part numbers and pricing for the spare parts. Too many companies are trying to turn the marketplace into a throw away society, while milking the consumer.
 
Even when hardware support isn't involved such as would be the case with software, as soon as a new major release comes out, support ends for the previous version. It's understandable to a certain degree except that many software companies have planned obsolescence on a far too frequent schedule. It's even evolved to paying a monthly lease now with some software. Well, enough whining. I don't know the answer to your original question. but my experience with Reeves drive lathes (not the old ones with cast iron pulleys, but the new ones with die cast zinc pulleys) is that they're not worth the time and trouble it takes to keep them running. Converting the drive to a different type, however, would be an option worth considering.
 
Any opinion of Microsoft free upgrade 10 operating system....Was that just to get u to buy new computer.....Luckily I have nephew to "adjust the thingy"
 
It was a bona fide no strings attached free upgrade ... Well, maybe a couple little strings. I wasn't interested even though I qualified.There were some things that the Windows 10 upgrade did not include such as Windows Media Player which has been a part of Windows for a very long time. They said that they planned to release a Windows 10 media player sometime in the future, but not for free. In general, I don't like to be on the leading edge of any new OS release because that would also put me on the leading edge of any problems that inherently come with any new software release.

The offer didn't have anything to do with selling more computers, but it did have something to do with having fewer versions of software to support. I don't think that nearly as many people took them up on their offer as they had hoped.
 
Just when I was starting to relax this weekend, Bill has to mention Microsoft...........I was trying
to get a large spreadsheet completed for a project I was working on this week and the latest network
release of excel has a bunch of bugs in it. Every week I have to reboot my computer to facilitate
software updates, each week I open Microsoft excel and the same old bugs are still there. A year
goes by with rebooting the computer each week and they never fix any of the bugs. What pray tell
do the Microsoft programmers do each day, week, month and year? God knows they never debug
a software package before it hits the street. I thought we had laws against Monopolies in this country,
they could start with this one and break it into dozen companies to create a little competition and maybe
one of them would design and debug the product before they release it.
 
There are worse companies. Adobe is the one that I love to hate because I feel compelled to send them large sums of money to upgrade to the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, etc.

I was very happy with my older version of Excel on my XP machines and then I installed Office 2010 when I built my Windows 7 computer. What possessed them to come up with this stupid ribbon menu idea? I've had it for three years and still hate it. I qualified for a free upgrade to Office 2013, but decided that I couldn't stand any more silly "bright" ideas.
 
Half of the people at work that use a lot of the Microsoft Office applications have forced the IT support
personnel to uninstall the latest network version and reinstall the 2010 version on their network computers.
That involves contacting "Peggy" in Mumbai and initiating a service change request and spending hours
on the phone and multiple emails to accomplish that one request. Microsoft was supposed to be a time saving
application, anymore it just sucks the productivity out of the day. Every time they release a new version it seems like the programmers never used the prior releases and they just want to release a new product that requires people to attend classes on utilizing all of the latest tools and revisions. Ringling Brothers is no longer in business maybe they will hire some of their employees to run Microsoft and write programs.
Send in the clowns!
 
Bill,

I have several sources archived, I was hoping someone on the site might have run across
a reliable source. I have four lathes I use in my shop and the Shop Fox is an addition to the
lathes I have right now. I might set one of the lathes up in my wood storage building and
use it to rough out blanks before moving them into the wood shop. This would save me steps
in disposing of the wood chips, I have a garden outside my wood storage building and could
shovel my wood chips into the garden or compost pile. I also have a spalting bed where I store
freshly cut blanks that i want spalted, I throw spalted wood chips into this bed of soil to maintain
an active colony of molds in the ground to begin the spalting process on freshly cut logs and blanks.
 
I vote for composing them first. Years ago when I did flat woodworking I used to dump a lot of sawdust and shavings into the garden until I learned that it was the cause of chlorosis because too much decaying wood tied up the available nitrogen in the soil. I use some of my woodturning shavings for mulch in flower beds, but only the types of wood the termites don't like.
 
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