The Sheldon Lathe Part 2: Walk Through and Things to Consider If Your Looking at Lathes
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Before we get into tearing into this lathe, lets walk around it and talk about some different things that we should be aware of. This is by no means an end all be all guide to buying a used lathe, but I do feel this is some pretty solid insight into definite things that we should be looking at.
There is one test that I forgot to go over in this video and that is a rough test for spindle bearing wear. This can be accomplished by chucking up a good 1-1 1/2 diameter cold rolled steel maybe 18" or so long (2ft would be better) and lifting up on the bar. You should feel no movement of the spindle. If there is movement, you would then use a dial indicator to see how much movement there is. Depending on the lathe, that can be a pretty simple fix, or, in the example of lets say, my jet gearhead, a full teardown. On these older belt driven lathes, its a pretty simple fix...providing the bearings are good. We will definitely get into that in a later video.
That's a cool machine. Love the looks of it. Gonna watch the teardown video now. Hope you have time to post more videos
Great explanation of how to inspect a lathe. I bought a 10" Sheldon 2 days ago. Looking forward to the strip down and restoration of your lathe. It will help me restore mine.
How do you lock the choke on a Sheldon Lake from the 40s
That's a 1.375 threw spindle dia, also is able to be modified easy by boring out the short spindle. Also if your electric ever want out, it's a easy modification to turn that back into a foot power lathe. That lathe is a fantastic gunsmith lathe, easy spindle bearing fix's, cuts great threads, looks like a 12" swing and 56" between centers, locking cabinet drowers, takes up small space.. Collects works great on that lathe also. If you got it free you gotten a great deal, I paid $750 for mine many years ago, it's been working fantastic for me. Just saying !
Mine has two knobs for thread speed
I have the same lathe and have made myself the metric change gear ser and banjo 3d printed if u are interested
My machine is 110
Too much talking in circles and not enough happening