hercus 260 lathe

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hercus 260 lathe

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bought myself a new (to me) lathe
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will take some better pics when i can
made in the 80's in australia, i was super stoked to catch this at 1/2 the usual price!
is ex school so has been used "gently"but bears a few battle wounds, the worst being the bent toolpost stud!
lucky for me the place i work at carries whitwoth bolrs or i may never have found a temporary replacement
next up is a clean and adjustment and buying a bunch of tooling
as Maz once said "if you want to make parts buy an new lathe," well i must admit i love tinkering with old shit. my mig is 30+ and i've sunk hours in fixing it my drill press was 27 when i got it and busted!i'm an electrician by trade so motors and controlling them is no problem
looking forward to making metal rounder and smaller!
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Congrats, and I see it is movable too...
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mobile no longer! fixed my engine hoist, built a skid and lifted lathe off wheels onto skid! reason for skis is that i noticed that while on the wheels it was at a reasonable height for me (6ft 4) so i built a stand to list it up. could now be moved with a pallet jack!
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that's a nice piece of kit dude :obscene-drinkingcheers:

Now for lesson No 1...."How to make a large pile of swarf"........ :banana-dance: :laughing-rolling:

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Nice one!....did it come with any extras?? :popcorn:
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camr pretty much how the last student left it. 3jaw no key rh tool in the post amd a 13mm chuck in the tail
still a machine like this goes for AUD2000 so to get it as cheap as i did will pay for the missing tools
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righto the chuck
lathe chucs have the serial no stamped on the jaws. all three should be tha same. mine are not
also the toolpost stud is bent. made a new one on the lathe at work but i cocked the thread. oh well. next nightshift.............
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Bugger.....Just finished rebuilding my little myford, I have two chucks that came with, the self centering standard one is missing one of the sets of jaws....and its one of the things they dont supply as a part, oh well...keep an eye on the ebay lol....can you not heat the original thread and straighten it??
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easy enough to make another stud, i'll just not fuck it up this time :D
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actually found a used toopost stud on Ebay! never got around to making another one
also scored a set of jaws, so may well be back in full swing
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