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I'm waiting on a rotary control box for the spare 10 hp motor I have which should run the 7.5 hp motor in the lathe pretty good. It came with a 10 inch 3 jaw, 12 inch 4 jaw, 14 inch faceplate, jfk collet closer, 4 way tool post and a KDK tool post. Also it has the steady and follow rest.

I would like a frequency drive but I have a 10 hp 3 phase motor and I can buy a control box for about $180.

After a year of looking I finally have purchased a metal lathe. It is about 12 years old but still had cosmoline on many parts of the lathe and came with a taper attachment and collet closer. Waiting for the rotary phase converter to get it going.

I was finally able to get machining again. Here are a few pictures of the progress I have made on the cylinders. I was not able to get all of the tops of the cylinders done today but will finish them Monday. Then I will start on the cylinder heads and then to the master rod. All the material so...

Had time for two more sides today. I should be done with the other two sides in the next few days. Sent from my iPhone using Model Engines

I have recently been designing my own version of Cruebys radial. Many of the parts will be machined out on a Haas 3 axis mill at my school. Yesterday I started machining the deck for each cylinder. The screw size is 6-32. The pocket diameter is one inch and the deck is about 2.5x2.5. All the...

Hello, I have been looking for a metal lathe for quite some time now and I have recently come across a rockwell 10x36 lathe with quite a bit of tooling and was wondering what anybody might think about them or if they are any good. Thank you, Dylan