Category: Lathe

Repowering the lathe.

Removing the dodgy wiring from a 60-year-old wood lathe.

Last year a buddy asked me if I wanted his Grandad’s lathe. Without missing a beat, I said when can I pick it up?

When I got to his place the next weekend, I knew this was going to be another project.

Why is there 30 extra feet of wire here? And wire nuts in space!?!?
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Free Lathe

There’s tons of old tools sitting in people’s basements & garages. Tools that granddad or dad used to use, but that the current generation doesn’t have time or space for. Once people learn that you enjoy restoring and using old tools, they start being offered to you, as most people would rather see their tools being used than collecting dust & turning to rust.

Look what I dragged in.

A buddy of mine is retiring and moving into a condo. Last week at a party he asked me if I wanted his grandfather’s lathe.

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