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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 962358" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>your preaching to the choir here!</p><p> </p><p>At work (that dreaded word) at one time I did a survey, and had about six lathes I could cut a metric thread pitch on! Four of them (Monarch) you had to change a gear set, and half the time the gear sets were miss placed or worse. The LeBlonds were easier, but also a pain to do without the operator's manual close by. The easiest was a little Hardingh Brothers bench lathe. All the CNC stuff would do metric threads as it was built into the software. It finally reached a point that if the work was too big for the Hardingh, I'd take it down to the model shop and do it on a Colechester they rarely ever used. I always felt the gear change system induced a little lead error in the threads, but never could seriously prove it. I finally called Monarch with the lathe serial numbers in hand, and ordered in the cear change sets for each lathe. That had a lock box made for each machine with a plexiglass top. The operators had the keys, and then you always had them. The Hardingh absolutely cut the best threads short of grinding them, but you were also limited to about a 1.06" diameter. Why they never did a 1.38" bore I'll never understand. </p><p> </p><p>The best lathe for barrel work is the Monarch EE in either an 8" or 10" chuck. Problem is that they are no longer in production, and users covet them dearly. If I were 15 years younger, and had the time; I think I could build a CNC lathe off that frame that would be a killer.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 962358, member: 25383"] your preaching to the choir here! At work (that dreaded word) at one time I did a survey, and had about six lathes I could cut a metric thread pitch on! Four of them (Monarch) you had to change a gear set, and half the time the gear sets were miss placed or worse. The LeBlonds were easier, but also a pain to do without the operator's manual close by. The easiest was a little Hardingh Brothers bench lathe. All the CNC stuff would do metric threads as it was built into the software. It finally reached a point that if the work was too big for the Hardingh, I'd take it down to the model shop and do it on a Colechester they rarely ever used. I always felt the gear change system induced a little lead error in the threads, but never could seriously prove it. I finally called Monarch with the lathe serial numbers in hand, and ordered in the cear change sets for each lathe. That had a lock box made for each machine with a plexiglass top. The operators had the keys, and then you always had them. The Hardingh absolutely cut the best threads short of grinding them, but you were also limited to about a 1.06" diameter. Why they never did a 1.38" bore I'll never understand. The best lathe for barrel work is the Monarch EE in either an 8" or 10" chuck. Problem is that they are no longer in production, and users covet them dearly. If I were 15 years younger, and had the time; I think I could build a CNC lathe off that frame that would be a killer. gary [/QUOTE]
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