[TheForge] Fay & Egan Lathe manual

[Michael Horgan]

Coming into this discussion  late, Kevin. But you might want to check out 
Marv Klotz's page. 
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/4425/#shop.  It's a wonderful 
resource. Among (many) other things, a program called 
<http://www.geocities.com/mklotz.geo/change.zip>CHANGE.ZIP  lets you 
calculate change gears for threading. Can be  set up for the particulars of 
your machine.

At 10:56 AM 5/19/2004, you wrote:
>All,
>
>A little help please ;)  I bought a 1930's vintage 17x54 Fay & Egan Lathe
>last month at an auction.  I'm a ways from getting it setup, due to total
>shop reorganization.  But in perusing the 'net for a manual that would
>explain how all the change gears work, I found  machinerymanuals.com.  I
>placed an inquiry with them and they kindly responded that they did, in
>fact, have what I'm looking for... $200 + $7.50 s/h and they will send a
>photocopy with the original for a paltry additional $35, if I order it at
>the same time.
>
>The only other Fay & Egan lathe info I've been able to find are wood lathes,
>shapers, planers, etc.  Anybody have any brilliant insights into getting by
>for less jack?  It might be a nice cold winter nights project to calculate
>the gear ratios/thread feeds, hahaha, arrgh!  A client of mine mentioned the
>Smithsonian might have such...?
>
>Regards,
>
>Kevin Donahoe
>Flying Pig Forge
>Morrow, OH 45152
>flyinpig at go-concepts.com

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