Some riddles and maybe a gloat

[AndyBarnhart]

Not long ago, I posted a pretty cheesy drill press lathe substitiute. Someone called it a Rube Goldberg job and then someone else pointed out I didn't use enough parts from other stuff to justify that comparison.

Sounds like a challenge!

Besides, while it was okay for roughing out, I need something better for general purose peg turning. So I cobbled this together:



So where did all the pieces come from?

Here is a clue:



Top left of the pictre - that is my foot controlled speed adjustment, scavenged the same place as the motor:



A little blurry, but where have you seen something like the headstock before?

Here is a tougher one. Where did I get that clamp?



Finally, this was actually an action pciture ( I should have posed for more):

[Bas]

Hmmm, good riddles. I like riddles.

The motor and foot switch - from a sewing machine?
The clamp looks like something I may have seen in the plumbing department. It looks so familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
The head stock - are those from bicycle pedals?

[ptt49er]

the "bearings" appear to be the center of bicycle wheels, the hub part.

I'm with Bas on the sewing machine motor/speed control.

The tailstock clamp almost looks like something off of a high chair or something similar.....

more pics?

[Mike Davis]

Phillip got everything but the clamp. It's off either a desk lamp or a crib toy. You know like a mobile that hangs over a crib?

And the piece of angle iron for the lathe bed.

[rywilson]

Originally Posted by Mike Davis

Phillip got everything but the clamp. It's off either a desk lamp or a crib toy. You know like a mobile that hangs over a crib?

And the piece of angle iron for the lathe bed.

I also think the clamp is from a lamp.... I'm pretty sure I have the same lamp somewhere.

[AndyBarnhart]

Yep, between the three of you the riddles are pretty much solved. The clamp is from a desk lamp, the headstock and tailstock are bicycle hubs and it is powered by a motor, belt and foot control salvaged from a sewing machine I bought at a flea market on the way home from camp on Sunday for a whopping $20.

[Bas]

Very creative Andy. This deserves a hearty YOU ROCK! Home made tools made for cheap. It just doesn't get any better than that!

[AndyBarnhart]

Thanks. I am not really done yet. I need to make a spur center. BTW, the angle iron is left over from my utility trailer. I built the trailer from a kit that had the option of making the trailer fold for storage and I chose not to do that (not as sturdy). The angle iron has a couple of purposes - a nice sturdy bed and full length tool rest. It also polices those dark side desires by limiting the size of stock to what is reasonable for such a small motor and adapted parts.

I have another project coming out of my weekend purchase. The rest of the sewing machine will get all the thread handling stuff stripped away for spare parts for my wife's machines, leaving me with a wheel to turn by hand that moves a rod suspended straight up and down over a flat cast iron surface. I just have to attach my rotary hand piece (already have the $2 worth of parts from Lowes ) and I will have a micro pin router for doing inlays and removing waste areas from relief carvings. It will be sort of like a scroll saw that only goes part way through.

[AndyBarnhart]

Some updates...

I got the awesome new camera now.



That's a small Forstner bit in the tail stock.

A spur for the headstock was more of a challenge until I found this



Man, I love playing with macro mode with my new camera. See the threads in the 3/8" - 24 nut?

But I still manage to screw up some photos:



Still not that bad.

Here's the whole thing:



So, how is it? Well, not really that great. It's hard to keep enough pressure on the tail stock and when I did get turnng fairly well I started to burn a little rubber. So I need to get a real pulley and I may rework the tail stock completely. I am thinking just a block of wood with a bolt as a dead center.