Category Archives: Kitchen Machine Shop
Happy New Year
May 2012 be the best year so far for all my readers. About the only thing that has happened between the holidays, is I received the cutters that fit for the lathe. To check them out I faced off about … Continue reading
Merry Christmas, Yuletide, Return of the Sun, whatever…
The holiday is upon us this Christmas Eve Day. I want to wish all my readers the best of season’s greetings, and to all kids, from 1 to 101. Looks like there is not much possibility of a White Christmas … Continue reading
A New Saddle and Hand Wheel for Lathe
My, hopefully, last order of parts came, and I replaced the saddle and hand wheel. As you know from a previous post the old saddle was abnormally worn. The old hand wheel was cracked at the set screw hole and … Continue reading
It’s Working
The parts for the lathe arrived today, for the past couple of hours I have been working on it, with the result that everything seems to work. I ran it to and fro with the power feed (if I ever … Continue reading
Further Adventures of A Fool (more lathe woes)
While waiting on my parts, I pulled the saddle and did some checking. Not a happy camper here, because someone had, as I mentioned, ran the lathe without the middle screws in the way gibs; which, pulled down the ends … Continue reading
& Yet More About the Lathe
I got a reply from the seller. To paraphrase: “I didn’t know it was junk, so it isn’t my fault”. Or, in his own words: “As I said in the ad; The only thing I checked is if the machine … Continue reading
And Sometimes We Are Lucky
Started tearing the lathe down to see what was what inside the headstock. Stripped the lathe down piece by piece until I took off the motor cover. What’s this? They motor is not supposed to be mounted at an angle! … Continue reading
More on the new lathe
Interestingly, it is the current model 7×10 according to the model number, but how did it get so screwed up so damn fast? Below is my survey of it so far, not even counting the things I have fixed already, … Continue reading
Kitchen Machine Shop
For real, not metaphorically. The lathe I mentioned buying from eBay arrived today. Completely disassembled. I spent an hour cleaning it a bit and reassembling it. I did nothing about setting it up properly, so it is not yet ready … Continue reading