Hey Folks:
Here are some pics showing the restoration of my Atlas HL-54 10". Warning these pics are BIG. The first two pics showing the lathe as a pile of rust are being defered because they are too big.
Nice job Andrrew. But as you said the pictures are quite large. In your camera software or scanner software there has to be a place were you can resize the picture for web site size pictures, which would be
640 X 480 pixels. They would then load faster and not be so big.Regards, Bernd
Nice machine! I see it has the same oiler cups on the headstock bearings that my old Atlas had - does this one have timken bearings or babbit?
And why do you need another lathe, if you have that nice SB in the background??
:)
Jim
Andrew I am in the early stages of restoring a QC54. Thanks for posting, looking forward to the website.
||Hey Folks: || || Here are some pics showing the restoration of my Atlas HL-54 10". ||Warning these pics are BIG. The first two pics showing the lathe as a pile ||of rust are being defered because they are too big. || ||
Texas Parts Guy
The babbit bearing lathes are not bad. My original one:
likewise had babbit bearings, and once I figured out how to adjust them correctly it seemed to work just fine. Yours could probably be converted to timken bearings if you felt a strong need. But for what those lathes do, the babbit is just as good if they are in good condition.
Jim
Nice looking lathe. I'm in the middling of cleaning and reassembling a mint QC Atlas. Should be back together once I bite the bullet and spring for new Timkens.
Just a note on you photos. You _really_ need to resize those things to about half that size. I'd also take them in full color, since the 256 or whatever setting you're using isn't to realistic.
GTO(John)
Hi All:
For those with the bandwidth, the 'before' pics got cleared. Again, they are big. I'll shrink them down and post smaller ones this weekend.
Nice photos...I've got highspeed broad band, over 2.5mega bit/sec. Pics no problem for me.
Would be nice if you could include some history about the lathe...sitting in a junk yard, farmers place, ...etc...
xman
Now these two with the others show the really impressive job. Job well done!!
This should be used to show new people what can be done if care and time applied. Often older equipment is junked or left to the junk pile.
When I get to our new home and the shop built, I will begin to clean up my lathe, but it is in fine running order at this time. Just needs paint.
Martin
As a matter of fact, I will. I managed to trace it to this man via an old property tag on the lathe.
While *I* found myself wishing that they were larger, so I could get more detail by zooming in. As it was, they were less than 1/4 screen on my system -- and it *can't* be set for lesser pixel counts, at least not *that* small.
Of course, the ideal would be thumbnails giving a rough idea, and links to click on to see larger images, but that would require a private web page, and not the DropBox.
Enjoy, DoN.
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