so john hart.....

[John Hart]

....BTW....that used straw won't have the same effect as the exotic wood shavings! but it'll make curl your nose!

Nuthin' a little lacquer won't fix! (hic)

[Jim Becker]

7K will get you set up in Canadian White quite nicely.

Yes, but for just over $5K he can get Stubbified, have 30" swing inboard and paint it white like Jack Vessery did...but the name "OnlyWay" was taken at the same time...

[Andy Hoyt]

Okay, I'll admit it, Jim. Getting Stubbified is a great alternative backup last ditch hell freezes over option.

[John Hart]

I was thinkin'....just a little bit...There is a pulley system under the floor, shown here. It runs right under the Table Saw, The Jointer, and the Planer
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The pulley system is driven by a diesel engine in the engine room.
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The compressor is also in the engine room
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So...Is there a high quality lathe out there that I could run on that pulley system?

[Andy Hoyt]

Now that's a cool idea.

I'm no mechanic, but - if you could rig it up - would a lathe driven by a hydraulic pump get better torque than one powered by pnueumatics?

[Fred Voorhees]

.....and a pond full of bass and bluegill

Now you talkin!!!

[Loy Hawes]

Yes, but for just over $5K he can get Stubbified, have 30" swing inboard and paint it white like Jack Vessery did...but the name "OnlyWay" was taken at the same time...

I always get jealous when Jim pulls out his stubby.

[Vaughn McMillan]

I always get jealous when Jim pulls out his stubby.

Must...resist......cannot.........type............

- Vaughn

[tod evans]

just in case your daughter is reading here`s my son last spring.

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[John Hart]

just in case your daughter is reading here`s my son last spring.

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Tod...you are the spawn of hell.

[John Hart]

....I'm no mechanic, but - if you could rig it up - would a lathe driven by a hydraulic pump get better torque than one powered by pnueumatics?

Sure..if you were to run things with hydraulics, there's no compression/elasticity in liquids but there is in air. But this is not a hydraulic, it's engine-driven.

[tod evans]

So...Is there a high quality lathe out there that I could run on that pulley system?

john, all of the old patternmakers lathes i`ve seen where run off jack shafts. there are still quite a few around ripe for the picking, some with very long beds and up to 15" over the ways. most are babbit bearing machines but i haven`t ever had trouble out of babbits that are kept under 5k so don`t let that scare you off. my dust collector pump runs babbits and purrs like a kitten. a few years ago i saw an old metal lathe with a 10ft bed and 32" swing sell for 1200$ with chucks and tooling so if you wait and look around there`s deals out there.......now about this equine thing .02 tod

[John Hart]

That's what I was hoping for Tod. I have a lathe that serves me well, so I'm going to take my time and look for something along those lines. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. Oh...and here's an old Roman phrase: Nos operor non postulo a foetidus equus

Roughly translated: "We don't need no stinking horses!!"

[tod evans]

That's what I was hoping for Tod. I have a lathe that serves me well, so I'm going to take my time and look for something along those lines. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. Oh...and here's an old Roman phrase: Nos operor non postulo a foetidus equus

Roughly translated: "We don't need no stinking horses!!"

glad you translated! at best i have a halting command of the english language. that foreign stuff is only giberish to me. whoa-nelly

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

Geez John, are you going off the grid out there...?

I'd vote for the flat belt and Jack shaft, just to be different, why would you want to buy into the "New Is Better" thing all the time

I'll second the babbit bearing thing, new a guy in Canada that had a babbit bearing bandsaw, never had a problem with it.

Cheers!

.........horses......got....to....get....horses... ..