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Herman
 Post subject: Today's project. Columbia reproducer conversion
PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:33 pm 
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This is my project for today having digging my Mini Lathe out of storage.

Columbia Business Machine reproducer converted with a scrap Edison reproducer top. Now a nice Lyric Reproducer ( Patents applied for ) :D


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 Post subject: Re: Today's project. Columbia reproducer conversion
PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:55 pm 
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I envy your mechanical abilities! What a nice result!
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Chuck
 Post subject: Re: Today's project. Columbia reproducer conversion
PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:17 pm 
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Nice! BTW, what brand and size is your mini-lathe?
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for, and gaining, fundamental understanding"

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Herman
 Post subject: Re: Today's project. Columbia reproducer conversion
PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:30 pm 
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Chuck wrote:
Nice! BTW, what brand and size is your mini-lathe?


Speedway (Homier) 7X10 Bought about 15 years ago on Ebay for $199.00.
Just ordered a 5" Chuck to replace the lame 3" that it came with.


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Chuck
 Post subject: Re: Today's project. Columbia reproducer conversion
PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:31 am 
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Thanks for posting the photo of your mini-lathe.
Just got a nice paper catalog in the mail yesterday
from http://www.littlemachineshop.com

They sell mini-lathes in several sizes, mini-mills,
lots of parts and tools. They have many chucks for
these, including a few nice 4 jaw ones.

Your 7 x 12 lathe looks a lot like the Chinese
lathes made by Seig. $200 was a very good price!

Right now Harbor Freight stocks and sells the Seig C2,
which is advertised as 7 x 10, but it's actually more
like 7 x 8.5 Selling new for just under $600.

Anyway, not to hijack your thread here and back on
topic, nice work on the scrap Edison reproducer top
making it useful to fix the Columbia.

Chuck
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