Thanks for the video. I also have a 12x30 18 speed that I have restored and I love it. It's a great machine and seems quite tight for a 1938 build. The only missing accessory I needed was a steady rest, and luckily I found an original on ebay.
Nice pair of lathes! I was looking for a Hendey for its threading capability but could not find one in reasonable shape. I ended up with a small Axelson of the same era of these machines and dirt cheap. Wear on most old machines can be worked around and good parts made like your compound screw. I have seen many buy new machines and never or barely use them likely afraid to scratch them. It nice to have a clutch too on a lathe. It had taken me more than a hundred hours to get everything fixed on my old machine, the oil passages are very important to clean, the old oils of the time period were not as refined and wax up felts and clog up lines. The parts on these machines were made on even older machines and they were designed to be repaired in the field. Thanks for the video!
Gorgeous lathes! Remind me greatly of my own big girl lathe, the Schaerer UN450... A colossus dedicated to pure perfection... The headstock design and ``BB`` dont really guarantee the rotary bearings... The oil ports on both ends of the spindle indicate a bronze bearing to me, and it also can be denoted with a BB... Very hard to say in a way, as there have been anti-friction bearings with oil baths before, but my experience kinda associates oil ports on both spindle bearing ends with journal bearings... Especially with that kinds of low speeds, tho the TRB is undeniably a tapered roller bearing, and it has the double oil glasses, so these lathes bemuse me a lot, which is a pleasure, as i love contemplating machine design... BB could be ball bearing, but this is quite out of the ordinary compared to all the designs i have observed through the last 15 years of obsessive-compulsive studying of machinery... The tapered bearings actually are conducive to oil baths, as the rollers draw the oil upwards with ease, wetting the whole bearing, but balls are kinda shit at that job, at least when compared to rollers and just a shaft in a grooved journal bearing...A most interesting conundrum... I definitely hope that the motor is OEM, as the double speed while not overly high, could be a shit mod if done by a moron who owned a machine in her past... My Sch450 has 1120rpm max speed, and i know of quite a few journal bearing lathes that reach easily even higher speeds, so its not 100% a bad thing, but if poorly implemented, or if the bearing lubrication is strictly designed for certain rpm limit, it could be, even in anti-friction bearing systems... I cant say for sure, but i can appreciate the general similarities between our lathes, and i can only gently smile as I hear how you came to own the white one... Good on you man, doing the Lord`s will... Praise you brother! They are beautiful and deserve a loving operator and a caretaker... Kindest regards and all the best! Steuss
Thanks for the video, it was nice to see an 18 speed side by side with the 12 speed. I bought a 12x30 18 speed off eBay years ago and after driving about 500 miles to pick it up it turned out to be a 16x30 12 speed. I wasn't set up for that much weight so it took another trip with a bigger trailer. A pain but it's been a great lathe.
Clemwyo! I’m happy to have you comment and add to Hendey knowledge. I’ve learned a lot from your videos and really appreciate what you have out there content wise on Hendey Lathes. A great lathe that deserves more recognition and public knowledge. Sorry to hear about your long trip but it appears it worked out.
Thanks for making a vid to show us what you did to the project lathe. Man, do I want a hendy gearhead lathe, either of those two are awesome. that tool retraction lever really solves an annoying problem. I don't like running the carraige back over the part when turning. If you have that cam lever you wont have to make an ugly spiral around the part by running the tool over it.
I think it was designed only to cam back for threading but I guess you could use it for general turning as well. Watch marketplace, I see Hendeys for sale every once in a while. I also have a Facebook group called Hendey Lathe Owners. Thanks for the comment.
I just bought a 16" x 54" 18 speed Hendey. I think its from 1941, with L1 taper. I am currently rebuilding the headstock and the spindle has angular contact ball bearings. Most of the bearings in the headstock are thrashed, including the spindle bearings. I hadn't considered pulling the entire headstock off to check the reversing leadscrew mechanism. Did you run into any problems putting the headstock back on your lathe with alignment or anything like that?
Hello Blocktype, No I did not run into any problems as the headstock sits on the V ways so it is self aligning. I am the moderator on the Facebook group and I think I may have seen you in there. I find it odd the bearings are all bad unless it was ran dry or something.
I've had the 18 speed model for 30 years. I lengthened the lead screw with a stub shaft at the tail end. Installed a variable speed DC motor connected to the screw via timing belt/pulleys for variable feed speeds. I tapped the face plate with 2 8-32 holes behind the feed engagement lever (the one that near the rear headstock oil sight window. Place the lever vertical, install both screws on either side, they hold it in a neutral position, feed gearbox does not run. I did this because of the noise from the gearbox. Never threaded with the machine. Don't have a manual. Do these Hendy lathes not have threading dials? ( Mine does not have one) How does that work?
Some were equipped with a thread dial as an add on accessory but it’s not needed at all. When you engage the half nuts on the lead screw and cut one pass you can reverse the lead screw to move the carriage back. You never have to disengage the half nuts and therefore don’t need the thread dial. My 18 speed makes less noise than the 12 but still is noisy at the high RPMs. Your modification is interesting but I don’t feel mine is so loud I would need to do that. Thanks for the comment.
@@funone8716 No you don’t need to stop the spindle. There is a lead screw reversing mechanism built under the headstock. There is a lever by the carriage that changes from forward to reverse. There are some RU-vid videos on how Hendey does it that will help you understand. I have one video showing the clutch under the machine in how it works.
@@MikefromMissouri Yes I just now got the manual from Vintage Machinery and I see the mechanism shown. I learned something new! Now I want to thread with the Lathe. Thanks!
