I've had an SL200 since 1970. It's been a very useful tool over the years for small stuff. I paid about $160 new but have paid several times that in tooling & accessories for it. I once was able to buy Unimat parts from the Sears Tool Catalog. These lathes haven't been made for years & many of the parts & accessories are no longer available. You may have already experienced this since the video is a couple years old.
Its an awesome little machine. Love all the random crazy uses I get out of it. Wish someone would snag the patent info since I am pretty sure its public domain now - and start building them and parts/accessories again. These things would make great little desktop mills and lathes for highschool shop classes. perfect scale to learn the core basics of mills and lathes.
at 5:40 what you are looking at is a faceplate, and a driving 'dog', the dog slides onto a round workpiece, and the part is put between dead centers, in the tailstock, and the faceplate goes onto the headstock, gripping the spindle, and the dog goes into a slot in the faceplate, to drive the part to cut it.
I have both the chinese mini lathe and the emco. They are not comparable. The chinese lathe does not need all the upgrades people tell you and it can do much more. The unimat is fine for very small things and is fine on brass and aluminium but cutting stainless and other steel alloys is a nightmare. Upgrading your chinese lathe is optional and becomes a hobby in itself. Anyway they are both enjoyable and great have fun
brother, dont know what you paid for it, but its a germ! its in very good condition! WOW. I have a unimat 3, used but very good and I have the vertical attachment with the metal table, hunt for it and get it! its metal, last you forever. These are sweet accurate machines, always have to for small stuff. you will love using it for smaller things even if you get a bigger lathe. Just getting all the 3 chucks and live center is more than worth it!
I got it for a steal, less than half of what I’ve seen some well used ones missing half of the accessories go for. I did pick up the metal table a while back.
@@dustinwalruff Well in that case, you will forever be grateful and keep it! Its a fun little quality lathe for sure, its a hobby lathe but with the quality and precision of a watchmaker lathe for the given size. So overall its very good at what its capabilities are.
WAIT: at 4:16 you need to LOSTEN the allen screw behind the compond rest (on the cross slide facing downwards) this is the 'carrage' lock, for shipping purposes, as well as when doing a facing, parting or other cut where you want to restrict this axis of the machint, like drilling ( to stop the slide vibrating into the spinning chuck, or things like the tablesaw, fret saw or other attachments coming out of alignment between the cutters and the table [fixed to the saddle])- as the lead screw is loose, UNTIL you add the power feed (screwcutting) attachment- this adds a gear on the handwheel, and a pulley on a tailshaft to reach the headstock pulleys.
I just got one a couple weeks ago. Dude I love it. Now I know it’s small but it will be great for making bushes. Btw what was the part number on that Albrecht Chuck? I didn’t know they had a keyless one for the 12x1 thread size.
@@dustinwalruff man that stinks because those Albrechts are super high precision. Almost zero runout when compared to a conventional 3 jaw Jacob’s style Chuck. No adapter found in the bunch of parts?
Nice quality tool! Start messing around with it on aluminum, brass, and maybe some soft steel. Have fun. By the way I saw your helmet in the background- were you/are you a pilot?
@@dustinwalruff Ha! I just found this lathe also a four hour drive soon! Oh well. At least I found it in great shape. It is missing the 4 jaw chuck. Has the 3 though.
I sent you a couple helpful links but they've disappeared. why is that? anyway, good luck and enjoy. love mine. those bars you speak of are called tommy bars. and those centers are dead centers. a good substitute for tommy bars are two 5/32" pin punches.
15 minutos de video para colocar la columna y usarlo como fresadora y lo mas interesante era ver su funcion como fresadora, y............nada solo palabras y gestito con la mano ,.....que tristeza ,
