Thanks in advance for any info you can provide. Would it be feasible to adapt plates from other brands to fit (17mm bore?) I would think that others would work if they're also from a table with a 40:1 ratio. However, I could not find the indexing plates.

This indexing table has never been used! It includes the adapter plate to mount the 3 jaw chuck. How do I lube the gear train in the apron? What is this hole for, and should there be a plug in it?ĥ. In the green circle is a tapped hole that goes all the way through and I can feel the feed screw on the other side. One of the socket head cap screws is painted red. There are 4 screws on the carraige (blue circles) that don't seem to do anything or go anywhere. Now I have a few questions, and I'm sure that someone out there has experience with these lathes and can answer.ġ. Perhaps it's a fountain of youth type thing.40 years from now I'll be the neighborhood nonagenarian chipmaster.Īlong with the lathe, I got a 3 jaw chuck, 4 jaw chuck, face plate, rotary table, extra set of change gears, milling vise, and a wide assortment of end mills, turning tools, reamers, 2 dial indicators, and a DC motor that he had rigged up as a slow speed drive, probably for coil winding. It's definitely a step up from the Craftsman 101 that I bought earlier this year. Now it's set up in my shop, and I've already put it to work. The gentleman who previously owned it was a machinist by trade who also had a wide range of other interests, including electronics ( he had used this lathe to wind coils.) He had taken good care of this machine, and used it right up until about 6 weeks before he died, at age 99. This unit was built in 1975 and has always been in a home shop. And we bought it.after I ran it through it's different speeds, listened to it, cleaned off the ways and looked at and felt everything I could think to examine. Being an underhanded, manipulative old fart, I managed to get us straight to the one that advertised an Emco Mentor 10 lathe. A week ago last Friday my wife & I set out to hit a few estate sales and the like.

Emco maximat mentor 10 drive belt