Member postings for Roy James 3

Hi all, can anyone help me please after many hours of searching I found an online PDF of the manual for my MX-600A mini lathe and I saved it into ‘notes’ but, somehow I deleted it. I have spent hours and hours searching for it online with no success, does anyone have an online copy and can send it to me or a link where I must have found it originally. Many thanks in anticipation. Roy

Hello again guys, I have now modified things so I now have the QC post from my original lathe and all works well I have 10mm bits that I use in it but when I have to replace them I will upgrade to 12mm, my old QC will allow this. I can also easily change back to the larger QC if I want to very easily.

I only bought the 16mm tools because I was (and still am) ignorant of what I needed, and as the new toolholder that is original to the new lathe and as it was a 10mm toolpost I thought it dictated using the larger tools.

On my old lathe I bought 8mm then 10mm tool bits but of course I kept having to shim up with both sizes and was pleased when I found out about QC and why I thought it would be good to do the same on this new lathe because I still have to shim up the 16mm tools only a thin amount but still annoying. I do agree I like the bigger tools because as Vic says the small sizes are not very strong and with the 8mm I was ever knocking the cutting edge off, I know it’s because of too fast feed but as I said at the beginning this is all very knew to all this and had no-one to turn to for help, I am learning slowly.

thanks everyone. Roy

Thanks JohnC, much appreciated for your reply, and the pointer to Arc EuroI know where I am going now.

regards Roy

Good morning Thor, good morning JasonB thank you both for your replies it is appreciated.

its not so much the size of the tool as much as wether I can use the QC 250-200, the current fixed toolpost which came with the lathe is a 16mm holder and a 5” chuck so I bought 16mm tools for it and since they were not cheap I do not want to discard them.

However having revisited the situation and reading your comment about why do I need 16mm tools on a hobby lathe, I think I will modify the toolpost site and use my original 250-000 which I have a full set of QC for, thank you, your comments did definitely help.h

What I save on the new toolpost will buy new tools, and I can use the 16mm if needed in the old holder

It’s good to have friends. Warmest regards. Roy

Hi guys, I am an old newbie in need of some help.

I don’t have a history in turning but a year ago I bought a small secondhand metal turning lathe, I found it very interesting to use and I have started to understand what I could do on it. But I soon outgrew it and bought a new bigger one, I bought a “Crenex 220 x 600mm” (yes I know) I already knew that it would come with problems, probably more than I expected but I have spent quite a bit of time resolving most of them.

What I need advise about is buying a QC toolpost, I equipped my old lathe with one and found it excellent, now I want one on the new one I want one which takes 16mm (5/8&rdquo tools. I keep looking at the 250-200 with 200 series holders but according to the description it is for a 10 to 15” spin, my lathe is just over 9”. Can anyone advise me whether I can get away with this, Longbow sell it but will not respond when I asked for help.

Any help please would be appreciated, Roy