Chris not the ideal lathe to learn on make sure you have some tuition or something from someone else.
For two reasons, if it breaks its gonna cost but parts are available unlike chinese things. Secondly that M300 will drag you in.
Looks like a newer M300 so more than likely it will have a dual voltage motor and pump.
Thought about how your going to power it?
Chris not the ideal lathe to learn on
At some point when i have raised my skill level to an acceptable point i want to set the squish band on two stroke motorcycle heads , how do you accuratly remove material from the bowl shape to alter the volume .
Ill be making some polly bushes for my car , ss bushes for my bike , skimming discs to name but a few so mainly round things for now , the mrs is going to love me when this thing turns up
Anyway here is a pic , looks like its had an easyish life so far , it will have standard jaws in when it arrives too
pm your email and ill see if i can send it , its a few pages short of what they are selling on the lathes site thoughI don't need a lathe. I'm not buying a lathe.
But I would appreciate those PDFs to look over while I'm not thinking about getting a lathe.
Thanks for that , much apreciatedYou can do it manually by following a pattern. Make a pattern of the shape you want and fix it to the headstock behind the chuck, or by a bracket off the bed. Use an old cylinder head if you like but whatever you do make it RIGIDLY secured. Now mount a block with a stylus with a similar tip profile to the tool you will be using to the cross-slide and line it up with the pattern and the tool with the same place on the job - you have to be on centre-line so to help, make a couple of pointed plugs that screw in the plug holes (if they are central in the head). Make sure the compound slide is at 90-degrees to the cross slide, now you can follow the pattern with the stylus and the tool should follow the same shape on the workpiece. Use the compound to in-feed the tool and the compound dial to tell you how much you are removing.
Poly bushes easy - best idea for practice. Mind you don't pull them out of the chuck though coz you can't clamp it so hard. SS bushes easy if you find some 303 stainless. Keep the tool sharp and always cutting. Skimming discs not for the novice. Hard to do without them ringing and getting an awful finish.
Looks like a nice, lightly-used machine. If you are getting the standard jaws make sure you get both inside and outside sets, and see if you can keep those soft jaws in the pic coz they are really handy to have.
I agree with MattF, LHSparey book is mint. There are Model Engineer magazines available via download, (PM for link) and there are a million other things you will get the hang of, just by trying.
There is a good chance that with changewheels you can cut imperial threads with the metric lathe too.
http://www.lathes.co.uk/harrison-m/page2.html
Useful for info, but in my experience not for purchase.
holder accepts up to 16 x 20 tools , is the tool size dependent on the job size tool you are doing or the holder
It may be bigger , thats the size it says in the m300 manual , so im presuming this would be the same , it will be here next week so ill know for sure or ill askBoth, if too large a tool you may not get relief on the tool itself.
Likewise if small it stands more chance of flexing, more so boring bars.
For cylinder heads you may be better dependant upon shape required, make or grind your own carbide tooling. Many state carbide no good for aluminiums but use all the time day in day out for 20 odd years, just get a feel for whats happening.
Tool holder looked bigger than that.
I have a Dickson QC that will use the indexing on top slide doing nowt.