My new to me lathe

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Butch Lambert

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Uncle Bill unloading and setting my Monarch 10EE.

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My Uncle Bill is a great guy and he is 5 years younger than I.

Picking it up from the light end to place it like I want in the shop.

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I wanted it facing my 14X48 Clausing 6913.

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This is a photo of my 2 Bridgeports.

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The electrician will be out in the next couple days. I will need to adjust any twist out of the ways if they're any.
Let's start another argument. I say leveling is not necessary. If the twist is adjusted out, level is not important. If it were important, none would have been on ships at sea. The transformer tubes will be reinstalled and the covers for various access places in the lathe. It is a 1956 WIAD.
 
Butch,

I am jealous! My dad ran 10EE's back in the day and said they were phenomenal machines. One day I hope to make some round things rounder on one of those. I think Sharrett said the BEARINGS ALONE for a 10EE cost more than your average sized Taiwanese lathe.

No arguement from me on the leveling question...you definitely don't want twist...nothing good about that. BUT...I think your longitudinal ("Y"? I always forget) axis should be consistent, i.e., if you're a quarter bubble off on the ways under the headstock, you should be that same quarter bubble off in the middle of your bed, and down by the tailstock. If not, turning longer work will result in varying diameters. Picture a bow in the center of your bed, either up or down, and the relationship of the cutting tool to the centerline of your workpiece as it travels down the length of your bowed lathe bed. The resulting error may not be much, but us precision types pay pretty close attention to the details.

Speaking of bows in lathe beds, my dad taught me that when the lathe is not in use, and space permitting, to slide the carriage and tailstock as far down to the tailstock side of the bed as you can. There is always substantial, direct support to the lathe bed there. If you leave it out it the middle of the bed where there is not as much support, it could cause bowing over time. I err on the side of caution...

And Butch, one of the 1,486,245 reasons you should be thankful that you live in Texas as opposed to California, is that keeping a lathe level, whilst living about 40 minutes from the San Andreas Fault, is a colossal pain in the arse.

Nice lathe, nice shop!

Justin
 
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Butch Lambert said:
Uncle Bill unloading and setting my Monarch 10EE.
The electrician will be out in the next couple days. I will need to adjust any twist out of the ways if they're any.
Let's start another argument. I say leveling is not necessary. If the twist is adjusted out, level is not important. If it were important, none would have been on ships at sea. The transformer tubes will be reinstalled and the covers for various access places in the lathe. It is a 1956 WIAD.
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You would get no argument from me. My lathe is setup a bit down towards the tailstock end in terms of level (twist painstakingly adjusted out), any oil/cutting fluids flow down towards the drain in the chip tray, away from pooling under the headstock where it's hard to clean.
 
I have that problem with the Clausing. I usually pour the coolant from a squeeze bottle. The Monarch has a deep sump and that won't be a problem.
 
Butch

Looks like a nice EE. It looks to be a fancy model. It has a taper attachment , ELSR and a large dial on the cross feed.
Whats the button and the dial on the square plate on the tail stock end?

Hal
 
Hey Butch,

In the photo of the Bridgeports, specifically the one with the rotary table on it, what is the doo-hicky on the front of the table? I'm talking about that long rectangular piece that is mounted in the front-facing t-slot and has the clamp mounted on the table (about where the table locks used to be). Never seen that before...another way to lock down the table perhaps?

Justin
 
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Butch,

I believe we are.

What's the thought behind it, as opposed to using the factory lock levers? Less wear and tear on the gibs?

Justin
 
Justin,
I've had it so long. If I remember correctly, it had some antique glass scales on it. I guess a much earlier than a DRO setup that didn't work.
 
Butch

If you get a chance post a picture of the tailstock end of the lathe bed and I'll look in a couple of my Monarch EE pamplets and see if I can find it.

Nice score on the EE.

Hal
 
Hal, this is the response from my Buddy.

You’ll remember that I demonstrated part of that when I went over the controls with you sometime back. That knob is an uncommon (I think) option that sets the reverse speed independently of the main speed dial. The mechanical tachometer on the headstock can only display when the spindle is running forward, so pushing and holding the button while the spindle is in reverse causes the spindle to come to a stop and then run forward at the speed set by the knob, so you can read the speed you’ve set on the knob. When you release the button the spindle comes to a stop and then starts back up in the reverse direction at the speed set by the knob.
I showed you how that knob set the reverse speed, but I didn’t demonstrate how to read the reverse speed on the tach using the button.

Being an option that feature may not be described in the manual.
 
Thanks Mr. Louis. The electrician will be here next week to run the conduit and hook up the electrical. My Buddy that I purchased it from will bring my tooling over and install the tubes and sockets. Should be fully functional by Sat. week.
 
Butch,

I think, with the exception of barreling and longer work, that Clausing is about to get real lonely...

Justin
 
You could be right Justin. I had planned to set it up as a collet only machine and it has a Jacobs chuck set up also. It also has a TruAdjust 3 jaw chuck. I need to find a 4 jaw forit. I do have an extra D1-3 backing plate. It appears to have everything for a lever type collet closer, but not the draw bar that fits in the machine that the colletsthread into.
 
I had a chance at buying a Monarch 10EE several years ago. I didn't have any idea it was a good buy at $2500.00 till Butch told me about the Monarchs perfection. They had a Cadillac there too. I was thinking about buying the pair and putting them in storage till some day I had the wants to build a bigger shop when the new partners in the business decided to put the halts to the sale.
That reminds me... are Cadillac lathes worth any thing more than scrap iron price?
 
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