Believe it or not this is engraving related. Ya we'll get to it.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend my daughter Rachel and I started tearing down my Hardinge TL-10 lathe to repaint it. When I bought the lathe it had already had new spindle bearings, new lead screws and lead screw nuts in the cross slide and compound, had the bed reground and thurcite B installed on the carriage, a new Penta DC regenerative drive with a new 3HP DC motor, etc, etc. The lathe had been rebuilt to as like knew condition as you can get a 65 year old lathe. But when they were doing all this rebuilding they didn't paint it and it looked like crap.
Rachel and I just finished taking care of that. I even had to engrave a new thread chart for the gearbox. The original one was readable but looked really nappy. SO I guess I can officially say I have an engraved Lathe.
I also made a dust cover for it out of some rubber coated canvas curtain liner material. Unfortunately, my situation doesn't allow me to have a dirty room for the grinders and grit making equipment and a clean room for the precision stuff. So I have to have a way to keep the grinding dust off the precision machines. Machine covers were the best solution I could come up with.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend my daughter Rachel and I started tearing down my Hardinge TL-10 lathe to repaint it. When I bought the lathe it had already had new spindle bearings, new lead screws and lead screw nuts in the cross slide and compound, had the bed reground and thurcite B installed on the carriage, a new Penta DC regenerative drive with a new 3HP DC motor, etc, etc. The lathe had been rebuilt to as like knew condition as you can get a 65 year old lathe. But when they were doing all this rebuilding they didn't paint it and it looked like crap.
Rachel and I just finished taking care of that. I even had to engrave a new thread chart for the gearbox. The original one was readable but looked really nappy. SO I guess I can officially say I have an engraved Lathe.
I also made a dust cover for it out of some rubber coated canvas curtain liner material. Unfortunately, my situation doesn't allow me to have a dirty room for the grinders and grit making equipment and a clean room for the precision stuff. So I have to have a way to keep the grinding dust off the precision machines. Machine covers were the best solution I could come up with.