lathe shafts

[Reaper]

Hello all

I have purchased a lathe second hand about a month ago with the intention of turning pens and other small projects. nothing serious and I wanted to do it with only a small outlay

having only limited knowledge of lathes and woodturning when I made the purchase I foolishly got a lathe with a solid shaft (no MT) :doh: the lathe is some obscure brand made in Aus and not out of business.

question is. is it possible to replace the current shaft with one that has a MT? or can i get some sort of adaptor? apart from the lack of the MT it’s a great lathe (at least for what I have been doing wit it so far)

cheers
- Blake

[vk4]

Blake,

If you can post a couple of pictures of the lathe , and also it's brand&model.
These will help us to give an educated answer, .

I think that you will either have to have a shaft made of the existing shaft turned out by a fitter&turner, which means that you will have to disassemble the lathe and pull the shaft & bearings out.

There are no adaptors that I am aware of.

Jeff
vk4

[Sturdee]

There are ways around it. You can use a chuck and get a steb centre that fits into the chuck (http://www.cws.au.com/shop/item/robert-sorby-chuck-steb-centre) or get an adapter made by Vermec. They make a spindle extension (http://vermec.tripod.com/PDFs/spindle_extension.pdf) into which they can bore a MT of your choice.

Personally I would go for the chuck, which will be handy for the other little projects.


Peter.