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I’ll be watching the progress on this one for sure be interesting to see how you build everything

That’s what I was afraid of. That I would need a new 3 jaw. Wold like a 4 jaw and since I’m buying a chuck any way, might as well be a 4 jaw and then see if I really need a 3 jaw down the road since this 3 jaw will do some of the things I want to do. Thanks for your help

Have another question on my lathe is this Chuck original to the lathe when you bought it way back when? From the looks of it the jaws are not reversible, correct?? Turning small pieces next to this chick scares me a bit because you can’t get right up to the point of contact with the piece you’re working on and the chuck (hope that sounds right). On my taig lathe even though the jaws are big you can turn pretty close to them, unlike the atlas. Any ideas (other than buy a new chuck. 4 jaws would be nice but want a small one for the turning I do is really small turning. Thank you everyone for your comments on this Chuck

I’ve read they are made out of cast zamac. What ever that is. There are light in weight and I read they break pretty easy or chip teeth pretty easy if you don’t take care of them.

Good morning!! i was just cleaning out the drawers of my atlas lathe and I found these gears. Looks like never been used. The top one (picture with just gears) looks to me to be metric? It says 40 M6 ?? The others have numbers like 3251 56 I’m assuming these are gears for threading. Let me know please. Also have a face plate (nothing else -dog etc). Course have the Chuck key for three jaw Chuck. Anyway thought I would share my finds today.

Here's a video about the cross sled I built for my Proxxon table saw. Table saw sled.mov

One of the things I do for repetitive cuts is I use a scrap piece of wood and clamp it to the “fence” of the sled. Yes for longer cuts I just measure and cut still use the sled to keep cut square.

See my post on table saw accessories that I posted awhile back. All my jigs and things were made by me. Copy them all and build yourself whatever you like, don’t matter to me. Lots of info on the web for full size table saws just scale it down to fit your needs. When I get home I’ll post some pictures here but all my jigs and such are under my post table saw accessories that I’ve come up with.

Well I thought I would turn something tonight. So I decided to turn a new handle for my lathe on the cross slide broke long time ago. Anyway I know the knob or handle I need is on my atlas craftsman lathe but I thought I would give the taig lathe a shot at turning some metal. Yeah it’s crude but for first time it’s good enough and it fits the hole and it will do the job. In my mind it’s a win win. Play with the taig lathe and actually made something that I can use.

It does have oil caps so it must be (sintered bronze press in sleeve bushings.) thank you everyone for the info, and no I'm going to be doing a utube restoration video of it. I'll be lucky to just clean it up and paint it so it looks nice. Like I said before it runs, no slop in the headstock, and I just got done lubricating everything today. So, it's ready to use.

Holy cow that looks great !!! You do great modeling my friend. I only hope to be half as good as what I've seen with my modeling. Well done indeed !!

That’s cool thanks for sharing!!

The only thing I wish it had was bearings for the headstock. Has bronze bushings ?? Not sure if Bronze or not but no bearings. Seems tight (no slop) so that's good. Just have to take the time and really clean it up and maybe give it a new paint job (same color). I have to make sure I still have it but I also have a faceplate, tooling (bits) takes 1/4" I believe maybe 3/8" cutters, dead center for tailstock (wish I had a live center) course they can be bought MT 1 tailstock. Head is a MT 2 I believe. I know I messed up one of the pins in the head, didn't know what I was doing at the time, know better now. It doesn't have a thread knob?? on it that broke long time ago. I probably won't be cutting threads that way anyway. Don't know if others vibrant or make allot of noise but my does. It's probably the way I have to belt to the motor rigged up. Dad and I built the cabinet many many moons ago and hung the motor on a hinge for belt tension (probably not the right way to do it). I have many "irons in the fire" before I get to really dig into the lathe project, it does run now just needs a good cleaning and lube. Works great, I've turned hubs (see picture) for a 1/8 scale stagecoach I was building and have turned other wood projects on it. Never have tried to turn metal on it yet. Just messed with it with wood. Yeah, I know some say don't turn wood on a metal lathe some say it's fine. It's the only lathe I had at the time so......... yup. Thanks to everyone that commented and gave suggestions on the lathe. Appreciate each and every one of you and look forward to getting back to modeling soon. First day of work (new job) so that'll be interesting. Again thank you !!

Well we’re moved and I’m setting up the shop and I believe it was here that we were talking about atlas craftsman steel lathes. Anyway I dug out my craftsman lathe and yes I need a new base and deep cleaning but this is what I have.

True but what the machine is designed for, the site has many designs, cards, etc to pick from and make your own. Technically it wasn’t designed for the modeler. A stand alone machine would be great but for the money, you have to give up something. All I can say is that I tried it other modelers have tried it and it works. A cheaper way to get something cut out other than buying a laser cutter which is out of my range. Oh and it really works well for making signs for your models as well. i don’t know if micro mark version of this is stand alone either…. Be interesting to see if it is or another machine similar to the cricut. I know my wife would like stand alone machine. I’ve looked at 3D printers, looks neat and what they can do is cool, but too technical for me and the price is way out of my range. Plus I’m a wood guy rather build with wood than plastic. Figures and details I can see a 3D printer coming in handy but for me I’ll stick with my model tools, be it hand or power tools. Have fun building!!!

It’ll cut curves the machine will follow what ever the drawing you have programmed it to cut. Don’t see any problems with cutting a curve. The blade is designed to swivel. this is the deep cut blade that I have for the cricut for cutting basswood up to 1/16”. Newer models might be able to cut deeper don’t know.

Yeah what he said 😇

It is not a stand alone, Internet access needed. I do know that much🤪 and I have windows. Other than that 🤷🤷. Just worked for what I tried. Oh and usb or WiFi it’ll work both

All these questions about the computers and interfaces and such. I’m sorry guys but I’m a simple man have absolutely no idea what it is. I’m sure if I dig into it I could tell you but right off hand I’m sorry have no idea. All I know is I’ve use sketch up and that works (sometimes) and I’ve used freecad and that works if you bring it in to the cricut program and then resize the whole project to the correct size (which is just a few clicks). Again sorry guys I don’t have all the answers you’re looking for……. Wish I did. 🤷🤷

The model my wife has is an older one it’s a Explore Air i know there’s newer ones out there that can do thicker material (don’t think 1/8-1/4) but maybe 🤷🤷🤷

Video of the cricut cutting out the two roof pieces. I tried to upload the one where it's cutting the windows out of the side walls but video to long 🙃. Might be longer than a laser to cut parts, but you don't have to clean up any burnt edges !! MVI_0798.MP4

Oh to answer another question about the blade. It’s a swivel blade. When the machine changes direction the blade free rotates and follows. For 1/16” basswood you have to set it up to do multiple passes. When I get to my computer I’ll post a video of it cutting the sides for the above structure.

A cricut is not a machine that could or even should replace a laser cutter. It’s just a less expensive way to cut your own parts. cricut is a few hundred dollars a laser in a few thousand dollars. Definitely a big difference in price and also quality of cut and what you can do with a laser you can’t do with a cricut. Cricut too limited. But if you don’t have the money for a laser and you, your wife, or partner, has a cricut, try it see what it can do. It surprised me.

You can use cad but some of the drawing programs I’ve found that the only thing I had to do was resize the whole wall to the correct size and then cut it. when I resized everything the windows and floors were then the correct size as well. You can also just draw with the cricut program and no resizing is needed then.