New toy: Setting up Colchester Student lathe

[Web Goblin]

Jonathan,
if you are after some morse taper sleeves I have some if you are interested.

Ian

[fidia]

I found the cheapest BD68 slideways oil on Radionics

http://radionics.rs-online.com/web/s...=bd+68&x=0&y=0

[Jonathan]

Jonathan,
if you are after some morse taper sleeves I have some if you are interested.

Thanks for the offer. I'm sorted now though - went to the ex-company that sold me the lathe to see what tools I could get. He had an amazing amount of stuff. I spent two hours rummaging, could easily have spent more. I got 7 quick change tool holders, 4 Morse taper sleeves, lots of new and a few used milling cutters (maybe 25), coolant hose, 20L bottle of coolant, knurling tool, mitoyo digital calliper, 3 V-blocks, pair of parallels, some carbide inserts, couple of standard carbide lathe cutters and probably some more I've forgotten. All for £200.

He had lots of different oils but I've already got the stuff for the lathe and didn't want to have barrels of the stuff.

[Jonathan]

I've now set up the coolant on the lathe and replaced the old hose thing with the modern flexible hose, so no leaks now, had to make an adapter for it:



Also in that photo is the new 4 jaw self centring chuck I got for a good price via eBay. The run-out 100mm from the chuck is 0.04mm approx. That's generally negligible.

[Web Goblin]

Phil,
thanks for the info. I have tested the lathe again boring a 16mm hole with a boring bar again. I set up the boring bar in the holder by eye and the tool holder by eye at right angles to the bed, the tool holder does not index.
Tried boring some brass bar and it came out good. Vernier was a good fit in both ends of the hole.

Ian