Member postings for Christian Sprogø

He he. Will do a full review with pictures soon, just need to run the damn thing :-]

I have 2 options for solving the electrical issue. 1 cut off crazy plug, and install regular one. Do think it will void any warranty though. 2 - Pick up a nice black thin adaptor tomorrow. Think i have to wait 24 hour more. Guess ill go to my workshop away from home, and do some milling in the meantime..

Spend a couple hours cleaning the machine, just to get to know things i allso took tailstock and top sled apart. Cleaned everything down, every single tooth on a thread or anything else,got a cotton pick? , and fresh oil. Adjusted all gibs, so now it runs smooth as silk.

Some rough edges on all surfaces, but i expected that from a cheaper machine, the finish is costly, so they dont seem to do it properly (to my standards). I gently "kissed" all the rough edges with a fine stone, so now im not cutting my hands handling the machine. But now im nearly ready to try the damn thing out

Note to self: English electrical plugs are NOT the same as here. Could have told myself that, they drive in the wrong side of the road, and have weird ways to measure things -mph, inch, gallon and so forth :-]

Hello there. After carefull consideration, and great help and guidance from this forum, i hit the buy now button, and bought myself a lathe.

Now all the tooling for such a machine, that i had lying around, seems to be either 25mm or 20mm shafts, with those little plates you insert with a screw.

The lathe is stated to take 10mm tools, so whats a starter to buy? Is one of those plated sets, that all looks the same, red blue or yellow. Or should i spend the money on a indexable set?

For start ill do some facing on round material, turning down alu and cutting off pieces, So i need a parting tool allso,

Allso, is 10mm and 3/8" the same size??

Hello gentlemen and ladies. Hello from Denmark. Totally new to lathes, but finding invaluable knowledge here. Ben messing around with metal and mills for 25 years, so not new in that part of engeneering, but as said, ive thrown myself upon learning the lathe :-]

Thank you again, for all your time and greatly appreciated help.

Im not doing anything "for a living" on the lathe, just learning the basics on, so when the need arises, i can go to the bigger lathes. It just seem silly to me, to have access to a whole new ballgame of a tool, and not being able to use it. Furthermore, im really keen on learning to operate the machine - just for the fun in it. Like a lot of you guys i guess, i like to work both with my hands and my head ;-]

Heres a couple of lately examples, of situations, where i really wanted a lathe near by.

While fitting one table from a drill-press, onto another, i really could have used a bushing, in either alu or brass - 14mm outside diameter, with a 8 mm hole through it, and maybe 4 or 5 mm thickness. Would been nice to have made one right up, instead i used a lot of time, figuring alternative ways.

WWhile making a tonearm, i needed the end of a carbon rod (10mm) to be dead square in the end, Would be easy (i imagine) to set it up in a lathe, and use a tool to kiss the end of the tube.

While fixing a turntable for a friend, discovered his brass center bearing, was cracked inside, thus the Scratch-- Scratch noise from the bearing. I had a new one, but with different axle diameter. Could maybe have been fixed, with either turning a new rod fitting my brass sleeve/bearing (my god i need to practice my English - i dont know a lot of the tech words in english - yet!) fitting my axle 8,35mm diameter, or a new brass sleeve/bearing fitting his axle 7,82mm.

So thats basacilly the work were talking about. Learning the basics, So my search continues, and im getting quite a lot of info on the net, and boy how is it conspicious (tough word to spell) that soo many lathes looks loke the same basic lathe, painted in different colours under differe brands - looks like the majority of the new lathes, i have access to are all going to be made in china.

Must look more into that c0 lathe. Positive thing if its ok precise, is that i can have it from a Danish dealer, cheap and all, so if anything is wrong, i can quickly return it. On the other hand, that cj18a lathe with metal gears, cost about the same as a c0. The specs says 450W motor, 20mm hole thru spindle, autofeed (meaning threading - wich im obsessed with learning). Arrrg ye trouble .

P.s: Now written on computer, without Danish spelling correction, so at least random danish words wont appear :-]

The search continues, and ill off course do a full review here, when i decide to get one (Wich would be within a week) and spin the tale, of a noobs quest into the world of lathes.....