Hi All
Looking for a bit of help on a lorch lathe I recently acquired.
The spindle head that came with the lathe had a lot of runout 2.5 thou, and a tight spot when turning by hand.
I got another spindle head for the lathe that has a runout of about .0003 inches, but now the chucks I have for it won't fit the new spindle. The one that came with the lathe and fits the chucks seems to be a metric thread 2.5mm and the new one I got seems to be imperial 11 TPI.
Was this common to have different spindles in both metric and imperial for lorch lathes.
Can I get chucks to fit the new spindle 11 TPI. Both spindles have a diameter of 20mm
Could I retread the chucks to imperial 11 TPI from metric 2.5mm
I have attaché some pics of the lathe and spindles
Thanks
Austin
Looking for a bit of help on a lorch lathe I recently acquired.
The spindle head that came with the lathe had a lot of runout 2.5 thou, and a tight spot when turning by hand.
I got another spindle head for the lathe that has a runout of about .0003 inches, but now the chucks I have for it won't fit the new spindle. The one that came with the lathe and fits the chucks seems to be a metric thread 2.5mm and the new one I got seems to be imperial 11 TPI.
Was this common to have different spindles in both metric and imperial for lorch lathes.
Can I get chucks to fit the new spindle 11 TPI. Both spindles have a diameter of 20mm
Could I retread the chucks to imperial 11 TPI from metric 2.5mm
I have attaché some pics of the lathe and spindles
Thanks
Austin