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Tailstock Mods for Sieg C6B Steve 05-18-2008
Posted by Steve on May 18, 2008, 5:27 pm
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 Once I'd completed my Nemett 4 stroke, modifications to the lathe became
evident.

www.btinternet.com/~steve.withnell/lathe/tailstock.JPG


a) Moving the tailstock not only required a spanner, but the nut needed
unscrewing a couple of turns, then by applying thumb pressure in the right
place, the tailstock would then deign to slide up and down. Real PiA.
Quite a few articles on adding camlocks, one using bits of bike and another
by David Rulezman
(http://www.rulezman.com/rulezman_workshop_2/tailstock_camlock.html ) which
has a really nice camlock mod. Reading David's article the problem with the
tailstock (and no doubt a number of other chinese lathes) is that the
drawbar appears to be a chinese version of a coachbolt and the clamp a old
clog iron. By making a bespoke drawbar, converting the clog iron to a
respectable clamping plate, the tailstock will slide freely and lock down
tight in less than half a turn of the nut, which makes a lever possible and
the spanner ( and thumb) redundant.

b) Trying to focus on drilling the workpiece whilst counting turns on the
handwheel finally came to a head when I was trying to drill a 0.7mm hole
17.5mm deep in a brass rod. I got it right first time, so tailstock DRO
was added, now I can focus on the cutting not the counting.

Both mods should be directly applicable to most chinese tailstocks they all
look remarkably similar.

PS: Where can I get Sieg Red and Warco Green? I should really paint the
add ons.

Steve


Posted by David Littlewood on May 18, 2008, 7:23 pm
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>
>PS: Where can I get Sieg Red and Warco Green? I should really paint
>the add ons.
>
>Steve

Per their catalogue, Warco sell green paint for touching up their
machines.

David
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Posted by ggreenie on May 19, 2008, 2:12 am
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That tailstock mod by Rulezman is a bit over the top, compared to this
one.

http://www.bedair.org/9x20camlock/9x20camlock.html

I've just changed the stupid nut system that was on my EMCO Maximat
Mentor V 10, only took me a couple of hours to do it. Used this mod
from Steve Bedairs site and I should have done it years ago, boy is it
easy to use now.

greenie :D


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Posted by Peter Neill on May 19, 2008, 4:42 am
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On Sun, 18 May 2008 22:27:28 +0100, "Steve"

>Once I'd completed my Nemett 4 stroke, modifications to the lathe became
>evident.
>
>www.btinternet.com/~steve.withnell/lathe/tailstock.JPG
>
<snip>
>Steve

Steve, I notice that you've posted that on your BT Internet web space.
I haven't been able to access my BT web space for 6 months via FTP,
and my pages use the same URL format - www.btinternet.com/~ then name
etc.
Can I ask what FTP address you're using to access yours please?
The original ftp.btinternet.com then e-mail address and password just
gets me to a server location without my files in it and to which I'm
denied any upload/download access.
Thanks

Peter

Posted by Steve on May 19, 2008, 3:57 pm
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> On Sun, 18 May 2008 22:27:28 +0100, "Steve"
>
>>Once I'd completed my Nemett 4 stroke, modifications to the lathe became
>>evident.
>>
>>www.btinternet.com/~steve.withnell/lathe/tailstock.JPG
>>
> <snip>
>>Steve
>
> Steve, I notice that you've posted that on your BT Internet web space.
> I haven't been able to access my BT web space for 6 months via FTP,
> and my pages use the same URL format - www.btinternet.com/~ then name
> etc.
> Can I ask what FTP address you're using to access yours please?
> The original ftp.btinternet.com then e-mail address and password just
> gets me to a server location without my files in it and to which I'm
> denied any upload/download access.
> Thanks
>
> Peter

I'm using ftp.btopenworld.com which has worked consistently for me. I just
deleted some of my sons stuff which has been dormant at least five years
from the server.




Steve


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