super adept lathe

Hmmm...may be a good engineer but he can't count...that definitely looks like a 2-speed (not 3-speed) pulley set to me!

Regards, Tony

Isn't the pedestal the '3-speed pulley' bit? Peter

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Its a countershaft. The big pulley takes the drive from the motor, and the double pulley gives the drive to the headstock (which also has a double pulley). So it is only 2 speed, not 3.

Regards, Tony

Unless you cross the belt over different pulleys and then it's 4 .................................

Of course if you do that on the motor side as well, you can get

Regards, Tony

Looks as though it may have started life as a 3-speed flatbelt pulley, & smallest size was too small to be veed out?

Tim

It's big money for a Super Adept - getting well on towards a new chinese lathe by the time you have it motored up and got the thing installed. I've got one n a biscuit tin somewhere, at that money I'd better get it on flea-bay!

Steve

No - was a 2-speed Vee as standard - at least, according to

Regards, Tony

Yep - probably better value to buy a Seig C0.

Regards, Tony

No a C0 is no good according to the C0 Yahoo group., flat earth chapter. These twonk's expect a Monarch 10EE for £100, they have no idea that history has pushed the cheapest, most basic lathe for the lowest price all thought time.

The fact that you are now getting a complete machine instead of a set of castings less motor and chucks for the same equivalent price floats over most of the bald heads

Pity the C0 doesn't do as good an impression of a clog iron that the Super Adept does - obviously losing marks in that area.

Mine has a the original 2- speed V pulley.

Quite happy to swap it for a Sieg C0 BTW :-))

Steve

I let (a nice) one by me at auction locally; went for fifty quid, and it included all parts, the 4 way chuck etc.

A mistake.

Add it to a HEAVY sewing machine table (I've seen non-singers with double flywheels...) and I'd have had an ideal, non electric lathe for my purposes - mainly small fabrications and repair on hand woodworking tools.

That's why I've got a search set up on eBay.

As you may have gathered, I like old, small, non electric stuff :-)

BugBear