Joe Melton
05-24-2006, 1:27 PM
My bride accompanied me to the last woodworking show in Denver. She's pretty good about tolerating my hobbies. We happened to be at the Laguna exhibit when the demonstrator was slicing paper-thin pieces with their table saw. I shook my head and said it sure would be nice to have a piece of equipment like that, but they are real expensive. Now any of the wives with whom I was formerly acquainted would have said something like "You know you don't need that. Let's go, this is boring. I need to look for some new shoes." Not this wife. My esteem for her increases each day. She said "Well, why don't you stop buying old cars and get yourself some nice equipment? You know you enjoy woodworking so much."
I didn't say anything, but was definitely impressed with her cognitive skills.
Anyway, a few months later, the thought was still there in my mind, unlike 99.9% of the other thoughts I have had in the meantime, so I figured it must be a keeper. I put two old cars up for sale, and sold one of them. Within a week, a Oneway 2416 appeared in the classifieds. It was like a classic case of planets aligning and I jumped on it. The result is that I now have room in my yard for another car and a new lathe in the basement.
Now I said basement, not shop. One doesn't just casually carry a Oneway 2416 lathe into their basement.
I stripped it down as much as possible. Curious, I weighed each part with my bathroom scales:
Bed 265 pounds
HS leg 54
TS leg 39
motor 49
HS 75
TS 52
banjo 22
long tool rest 10
faceplate 5
Total basic lathe 571
I didn't weigh the electrical parts that I also removed. This is the box that mounts to the HS leg and the pendant. The Oneway site says the lathe weighs 650 pounds, but maybe pounds are different in Canada.
The lathe came with some accessories:
17" bed extension 65
outboard bed 115
outboard riser block 56
outboard banjo 55
more tool rests 25
wheels 38
I also scored a drilling attachment, two vicmarc chucks, an axminster chuck and some O'Donnell jaws. Oh, and a vacuum system with three chucks, too. There's a fancy live center with some funnel shaped parts and some spindle extenders and other stuff that I don't recognize, also.
The outboard bed will allow turning up to 44" diameter pieces, and I'm not ready for that, so I'm not going to mount that right now. I will mount the regular bed extension to the outboard side and do bowl turning on that side. The motor reverses, so the threads on both the inboard and outboard sides are right hand.
I was able to carry all of this stuff down the steps myself. I used a furniture dolly for the bed, and it wasn't too bad. Assembly was sort of fun. I did some of it twice, it was so much fun.
I'm very impressed with the quality of this machine. I guess since it costs as much as a nice old car, it should be high quality, though. That 55-pound banjo is pretty impressive in its own right.
Now all I need is talent. And 220 volts. I think I will give my wife the empty spot in the yard as payment for her accumen and advice.
Joe
I didn't say anything, but was definitely impressed with her cognitive skills.
Anyway, a few months later, the thought was still there in my mind, unlike 99.9% of the other thoughts I have had in the meantime, so I figured it must be a keeper. I put two old cars up for sale, and sold one of them. Within a week, a Oneway 2416 appeared in the classifieds. It was like a classic case of planets aligning and I jumped on it. The result is that I now have room in my yard for another car and a new lathe in the basement.
Now I said basement, not shop. One doesn't just casually carry a Oneway 2416 lathe into their basement.
I stripped it down as much as possible. Curious, I weighed each part with my bathroom scales:
Bed 265 pounds
HS leg 54
TS leg 39
motor 49
HS 75
TS 52
banjo 22
long tool rest 10
faceplate 5
Total basic lathe 571
I didn't weigh the electrical parts that I also removed. This is the box that mounts to the HS leg and the pendant. The Oneway site says the lathe weighs 650 pounds, but maybe pounds are different in Canada.
The lathe came with some accessories:
17" bed extension 65
outboard bed 115
outboard riser block 56
outboard banjo 55
more tool rests 25
wheels 38
I also scored a drilling attachment, two vicmarc chucks, an axminster chuck and some O'Donnell jaws. Oh, and a vacuum system with three chucks, too. There's a fancy live center with some funnel shaped parts and some spindle extenders and other stuff that I don't recognize, also.
The outboard bed will allow turning up to 44" diameter pieces, and I'm not ready for that, so I'm not going to mount that right now. I will mount the regular bed extension to the outboard side and do bowl turning on that side. The motor reverses, so the threads on both the inboard and outboard sides are right hand.
I was able to carry all of this stuff down the steps myself. I used a furniture dolly for the bed, and it wasn't too bad. Assembly was sort of fun. I did some of it twice, it was so much fun.
I'm very impressed with the quality of this machine. I guess since it costs as much as a nice old car, it should be high quality, though. That 55-pound banjo is pretty impressive in its own right.
Now all I need is talent. And 220 volts. I think I will give my wife the empty spot in the yard as payment for her accumen and advice.
Joe