AtlasCraftsman 6. Adding a feedscrew to the 6. Any of you kind folk make a recommendation on this machine. I am looking for a med to sm lathe to support my rr hobby 187 to 18 scale. History and machine overview. The 6. 18 was made by the Atlas Lathe company, and rebadged and sold by Sears as the Craftsman 1. Details about the history can be found at Tonys UK Lathe web page. An enormous trove of material focussing on the 6. I am going to attempt to summarize some of this in a short form, on this page. There is also a wealth of information on the YahooCraftsman 6. Users Group, which is active with maybe an average of a message a day and all the old messages saved in an archive, which serves as the basis for the sorted by topic janellestudio collection. The 6. 18 was built with plain bronze bearings in earlier versions, or Timkin roller bearings from the 1. The bronze version was known as 1. Timkin version as 1. Sears numbers but those are the ones most commonly seen and referred to. The bronze bearing version seems to have a better finish cut, while the Timkin version can run at higher speeds. Both bearings are still commercially available. The Timkin bearing numbers are two 0. Resist the urge to replace the bearings its a difficult job and spending the time to try and salvage your current bearing set is probably a better idea. Very early versions of the lathe had a 1 x 8 tpi spindle nose, while most later versions had a 1 x 1. There are a lot of woodworking chucks available in the 8tpi size, few of which seem to be hefty enough for metalworking. There are very few commercially available chucks with the 1x. The best supplier Ive found is Little Machine Shop, who provide parts specifically for the 6. Some new old stock parts for the lathe are still available from both the Sears parts department and Clausing Lathe. The Beach Life Game here. Some are quite reasonably priced. Ebay always has lots of parts. The buy it now parts are often comparable in price with the parts bought directly from Clausing. Some aftermarket mods are available from, including quick change toolposts. Find great deals on eBay for Metal Lathe in Lathe Equipment Specific Tooling. Shop with confidence. Wood Fence Building 101 Garden Sheds Galway Wood Fence Building 101 Storage Shed For Sale Des Moines Iowa Can. You. Live. In. Storage. Shed. In. Florida Metal Storage Sheds. Identical to the newfor1957 12inch Atlas, the final form of the Craftsman 12inch was a considerably modified and improved model. Abandoning the longlived, bed. TIAS carries a wide variety of Vintage and Antique Woodworking tools. Check out our selection of over 500 productsMore aftermarket mods are available from Bower Machine including a replacement cross slide with t slots. Ebay seller Metal Magic apparently makes custom parts for the 6. The gearing that originally came with the lathe are 12 wide Zamak gears, 1. These are identical to the Sears 1. None of the other AtlasClausing lathes use these gears. The original gearset that came with the lathe included 2. Boston Gear makes gears that will work with the lathe, but they have to be faced to the right hub thickness about 0. The leadscrew is a 12 x 1. Acme Stub Thread. A suitable Acme Stub thread cutting tool is available from Wholesale Tool, among other places, although used leadscrews are commonly available on ebay. The half nuts are Zamak. It is fairly easy to remove the halfnut carrier assembly from the carriage remove tailstock and rear leadscrew bearing, slide carriage off bed, remove bolts on either side of the halfnut lever. Craftsman 101 Metal Lathe Parts' title='Craftsman 101 Metal Lathe Parts' />Search titles only has image posted today bundle duplicates include nearby areas akron canton cak ann arbor, MI aaa. Home Depot Metal Storage Sheds lt Build Sheds On Site In Alabama How To Install Shed Plans For Portable Shed. While I wish I could work on each and every readers house thats not always feasible so Ive put together this directory of local companies that provide. History and machine overview The 618 was made by the Atlas Lathe company, and rebadged and sold by Sears as the Craftsman 101series lathe from roughly 1930 to the. Search titles only has image posted today bundle duplicates include nearby areas boise, ID boi east idaho eid. The halfnut lever is just pressed lightly onto the shaft pull it off. Then you can remove the halfnut clamping assembly from the carriage and work on it. The halfnuts are still available from Clausing, and sell on ebay inexpensively. Its worth it to remove this and clean out the halfnut threads with a brass brush every now and again. If you do buy halfnuts, try to get ones that come with the bracket in which they slide, since there are different versions of this assembly. Ive read that there are also two different specifications for the Acme thread on the leadscrew, but have never managed to confirm this. The bed is flat with the carriage running on the outer portion of the ways, and the tailstock running on the inner portion. Like most lathes, the 6. The carriage will move much more easily in this area. A flat bed is easily and cheaply reground by a machine shop, but there are problems with this the carriage traverse will no longer mesh correctly with the rack on the underside of the bed, requiring the rack to be removed and shimmed downwards, the leadscrew will require slight vertical adjustment, and the carriage gibs will require shims. This is more work than it sounds. A conventional setup has the motor sitting behind the headstock and a cammed layshaft with pulleys between the motor and the headstock, with a two speed pulley on the motor and one end of the layshaft, and a four speed pulley on the other end of the layshaft and the headstock between the headstock bearings. The pulleys are designed for 3. L v belts. Because of the location of the headstock pulley, removal of the headstock shaft is required to replace the v belt, and this is not a task for the nervous it requires driving the spindle out of pressed bearings. I strongly recommend buying Fenner twist lok v belts, because they can be broken and threaded through the headstock without removal. They seem to work very well. Some newer 6. 18s used plastic gibs on the cross and compound slides. Many users think these are objectionably flexible and replace them with steel or brass gibs, which are available on ebay and arent too difficult to fabricate. Model limitations, eccentricities, and issues. The MT1 tailstock is barely adequate. Heavy or intermittent cuts with a live center will result in visible deflection of the live center. If you can use a dead center with minimal tailstock extension this helps. The compound slide is considered weak by some people, particularly if at full extension under heavy loading. Easy Worship Programs'>Easy Worship Programs. If youre making your own t bolt to fit in the compound t slot make it with very generous flanges. People have been known to shatter the cast iron t slot flanges by using a hex bolt as a t bolt and tightening it heavily. The compound slide use standard 6. The cross slide uses a 14 x 1. They have very small thimbles, and the thimbles transfer force from the handle to the body of the slide, which means it is very difficult to reset them during use. The headstock is somewhat complicated. There are many setscrews in components on the headstock but not all should be tightened. The outboard most component is a collar that sets the headstock bearing tightness. With the lathe warm having run for like an hour this collar should be tightened until there is no perceptible play in the headstock measured by putting a piece of stock in the chuck and wiggling on that, feeling for a clunk and then tightened another half a turn. This collar has a setscrew that bears against the threads of the spindle. Ideally, you should have a piece of lead shot in the hole between the spindle and the setscrew end. A small bit of copper clipped from the end of a 1. I found it much easier to adjust the headstock bearing tightness by making a wrench that clamps onto this collar. Adjacent to the bearing tightness collar is the spindle gear, and then a collar and the dust cover for the outer bearing. The spindle between the headstock bearings has three components a bushing, the pulley, and the bullgear. The pulley is basically free floating. It is held in place by the outboard bushing and the bullgear. The bushing has a setscrew that bears against the spindle, which should be tight. The pulley has a setscrew that does notbear against the bushing it serves merely to fill the hole for the pulley lubrication. It anbe tightened down against the spindle, but this is neither necessary nor desirable since it makes the backgearing not work. The bullgear has two setscrews, one on each side. One bears down on the spindle and holds the bullgear against the inboard side of the pulley. This should be tight.