metal rod measure

[Donnyboat]

Hi every one, hope you catching fish, & leaving some for me, I have just gained the possession of a metal lathe, I came across a thead measuring device & or intrament, it has on it,-the LS Starret & Co-Athol.Mass. USA.- No 40, thats about all I can reed on it, now Lathe work is totally new to me, so expect some stupid questions, come to think of it, thats me with everything I do, as you possibly already Know, cheers Don.

[Gfish]

Cool! Might be fun. Guy's from Oz seem to be into the "do it yerself" thing. Only the questions people DON"T ask, are the stupid ones to me.

[oldmanjoe]

     Is it the Swiss Army knife looking thing with all the different size saw blades in it .
 Thread pitch Gage 

[Donnyboat]

Okay thanks Joe, It has sizes on it, for example, 27-.064, I presume the 27 is metric & the other is thousands of an inch, is that correct, cheers Don.

[Donnyboat]

So how is this for service, this forum, one of the moderators, sends me an email, telling me that Wayne has posted in here, that if I need pics posted, he is keen to help, so I come back here to tell Wayne, that Mike currie, ( MHC) is keen to help  with pictures as well, & as Mike is in the trade, he will talk turning language, and there Waynes reply has`nt even been posted yet, so I will try n get some new pics of the lathe, for Mike to post, cheers Don

[mhc]

Don has sent a few photos of his 'new to him' lathe and I can tell you there is a bit of lathe envy happening here - for a 38 year old machine it looks to be in near perfect condition and about 10 times more capable than my little mini lathe.

Don's message:
"Hi Mike, this is pics of the receipt, just in case your having trouble seeing it, He, My cousin, Joe Mann, past away last year, age 95, he was a electrician by trade, although he had a very good sense of humour, he kept to him self a lot, as if he went anywhere, people were always putting it on him to do a love job on there power, anyway, he brought it from Ron Mach machinery sales, they must have been the WA agents for them, the importer were in Queensland , & paid $2590.00 for it new on the 30th of August  1985, as you maybe able to see, it was made in Taiwan, I would like to get a copy of the manual for it if possible, cheers Don."

and the photos;

















From memory the original motor was/is a 3 phase 1/2 HP and Don has installed a single phase 240V 1 HP motor to suit his power supply.

Nice lathe Don.
Mike

[oldmanjoe]

    That is a lot of lathe , That will keep you busy for awhile ....

[Donnyboat]

Yes Joe, its not a bad size, should keep me entertained,My plan is to make brass bushes for reels & so on, Thanks Mike for posting the picture, as I said at the start of this post, how stupid I am, well I started the post, looking for info, on a gauge, & I did`nt even send mike a pic of it to post, as I said to Mike, it would be handy if some one could find me, or point me towards, finding a copy of the operating manual for this lathe, cheers Don. by the way I paid AU$1000, for it & two 300 km trips return to get it home, his wife wanted it out of the way so she can sell the house they were living in.

[oldmanjoe]

  Well i assume that there was no instruction manual with your cousin, the next try would be the importer.
     I did not see a name on the lathe , do you see one .   All i saw was model no.

  https://vanhack.ca/doku.php?id=tool:manual_lathe
 
I think this is your lathe , looks like you have to click on the blue typings
Another site .    https://www.sunmaster-cnc.com/e-catalog/index.html

[Donnyboat]

Yes Joe maybe there is a lathe forum, that may be able to help me, the lathe has BROMAC on it, in large letters, keep well cheers Don.

[Shellbelly]

You are about to have loads of fun making huge messes!   And collecting measuring tools.  Screw pitch gages.

[Donnyboat]

Yes Mr shell, I need some gauges for it including dia glass face guages & so on.

Joe I had over look that side you gave me, when I replied last time, vanhack.ca/dekuplp?id=manual that lathe posted there is the same lathe, including the stand it is on, the only differance I can see, ours has model TY-1122BH, & that one on that sight is, TY-1125BH so I would say the manual for it would be fine for me, its now 2:48 am here so sleep time, I will have another look, in the morning, thanks so much  Joe, cheers  Don.

[Robert Janssen]

That will be a great machine for you to learn things on for many years to come.

Lathes.co.uk is the go-to site for machine information. In your case specifically, it is

http://www.lathes.co.uk/taiwan/

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[oldmanjoe]

https://www.americanmachinetools.com/how_to_use_a_lathe.htm         Pretty much black and white on how to use a  lathe .

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=metal+lathe     Blondihacks   is pretty good at explaining Technique on the lathe.

[Donnyboat]

Thanks Rob & Joe again, yes I have been on the youtube, with blondihack, very handy for a dense prick like me, Mike Currie now has pics of the gauge I was on about, keep well, cheers Don.