Best lathe: Bushings and belt drive

I guess Ive been putting the wrong bearings in Hardinge, OmniTurn, Logan, Southbends, some LeBlonds, Supermax, Eisen, Weiler, some Moris, some Mazaks, and so forth.

Next time Ill ask for an equivelent roller bearing and not use those Grade 7-8 angular contact bearings or plain balls.

Works for me. They have to be cheaper.

Btw..you included a host of lathes above...that no one sees. Baroni? Celtic?..btw..the two TOS/Lion (Bulgarian) were ball bearings.

shug

Gunner

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ATLAS 6 inch has tapered roller bearings.

According to daniel peterman :

That depends on the vintage. Mine (6x18 Atlas/Craftsman) uses plain bearings.

But I agree that the later ones do use tapered roller bearings.

Enjoy, DoN.

Don.. A lot of the Clausings were actually UK made Colchesters with a differnt name plate. But you may have know that....

Wayne..

Yes -- those were the "Clausing Colchesters", and mine is not one of those. And I don't know what their spindle bearings are like.

Enjoy, DoN.