Thread: CQ6230A 12x36 lathe

Originally Posted by Dave J

Theres one of these lathes in the for sale section at the moment with a AXA quick change tool post, and it looks like it comes with a heap of tooling.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f223/l...ls-kit-134561/

Sorry to see a member have to sell his lathe. Pity it wasn't getting sold a bit earlier for you Darren, still a bargain for someone though.

Dave

Wrong state for me, dammit!

Its NOT in a state.

Originally Posted by pipeclay

Its NOT in a state.

Oh for **** sake. I'm terribly sorry, it is in a territory which is too far geographically removed from my location.

Incidentally, you are missing an apostrophe from your statement. Yes, I can be a pedantic pain in the ass too.

Sorry for any confusion,but I have not attempted to be a pain in the ass.

It's a shame because they are a good lathe and it seems like it comes well tooled up.
I don't think freight would be that expensive, but it would have to be off the stand and on a pallet so it wouldn't get damaged, even then some of these truck drivers have no idea and don't really care.

Dave

Originally Posted by Dave J

It's a shame because they are a good lathe and it seems like it comes well tooled up.
I don't think freight would be that expensive, but it would have to be off the stand and on a pallet so it wouldn't get damaged, even then some of these truck drivers have no idea and don't really care.

Dave

A shade under $400 is the best I can come up with so far (using only the 450kg weight of the lathe, I'm guessing the stand is another 100kg?), which really puts the overall cost outside my current resources (already spending the tax return!). Unless someone wanted to pay me a bit of money to drag something they wanted from Melbourne to Canberra on a trailer

The stands would only weigh around 20-30 kg as their only sheet metal.
I brought mine home in a standard box trailer no problems. You could always take the wife on a holiday for the weekend up that way. That always wins them over.LOL

Dave

Originally Posted by pipeclay

Its NOT in a state.

well what condition is it in?..good is a state...bad is a state

Hopefully someone can get a good deal on the Canberra lathe. $400 shipping will kill it for most people I think.

My lathe has done its first job OK in spite of my lack of experience. I’m happy with the results even though there’s a lot of room for improvement.
It’s a pivot for my simple telescope mount with a hole in the end for a digital rotary encoder. I didn’t have a piece of steel to make the thing out of in one piece, so I welded a piece of plate (the flange) onto a separate shaft. The chamfered section is the turned down weld. If you look closely you can see some pits where the weld wasn’t quite big enough… I need some welding practice, the weld originally looked like someone threw dog turds at a wall. The thread is M12 and the flange is 50mm diameter to set the scale.

Ray: I’ll PM you re the other conversation.

That came out good and the thread looks good as well.
I often weld things up as well rather than turn down a big piece. Good to see your putting the lathe to work.

Dave

Good going Darren, looks great, but does it fit?
Stuart

Hi Darren,

For the first project to come off the lathe, that's looking good, nice finish. Well done.

Regards
Ray

Originally Posted by Stustoys

Good going Darren, looks great, but does it fit?
Stuart

;-) Yeah, I installed it and it fits well... phew. Indoor testing looks very promising. I'll be properly testing its performance on the next clear night.

Thanks to all for the kind words!