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Originally Posted by Rbertalotto
Those Monarch lathes are fantastic machines. I almost bought a near perfect example a couple years ago. But I do gunsmithing ( www.rvbprecision.com) and the headstock was too long to work on barrels through the headstock with a spider on the outboard side.
So I stayed with my 1985 JET BD1236.....I converted it to DC drive, added a schollbus windshield wiper motor to turn the lead screw and built a tachometer for it. The bearings were replaced with Tinkam bearings. It is just about a PERFECT gunsmith lathe now..... http://rvbprecision.com/machine-tool...x36-lathe.html |
That's cool there Roy. Looks like you have some fun projects.
