Anyone Own A Grizzly G0602 Lathe?
I’m seriously thinking of ordering this lathe.
http://www.grizzly.com/products/10-x-22-Bench-Top-Metal-Lathe/G0602
I don’t really have a place to put it or a way to get it into my house quite yet. But they are in stock in a week or two after being out of stock for the last six months.
I have a tool budget I need to burn and I need a lathe to go with my mill for a project I am in the process of designing.
Hoss Machine recommends it highly and it’s a good price considering the capacity. I wish I could go larger but I don’t have the shop for it yet and the other one I want is five times the price… 😯
Anyone with lathe experience is welcome to comment on the positives and negatives of the capacity, drive gears, color, etc.
I’m also looking for similar sized lathe recommendations from different manufacturers… 😉
Oh and AWS welder, i’m getting further along on the end cap. I’ll try to get some photos up soon. I figured out a pretty crafty way of getting the steel into the butt of the grip. I need to start the shaping, it’s just a chunk screwed on the end of the grip right now. It certainly did balance out the pistol though!! Thanks again!!
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Yes on the gunsmith lathe I drullllllllll so badddddddd when I see that one it would be in my shop if I had to money to spend do doubt in my mind 😯 Yea I just don’t remember I ended up calling tech service at Grizzly because I seen it someplace online or in there big catalog and one or the other said something about it being able to turn left hand threads and I kicked that around for a while but it was last year when I was looking at the Grizzly mini lathes, like I told you I have a Grizzly band saw,table saw, shaper, jointer, and planner never have had one bit of trouble with any of them, alot of any of the machines you look at are built in another country but some shoot for better specs ISO factory specs and Grizzly is higher than most along with Shop Fox, they make a nice machine for the money is what it boils down to and I have had questions and they have always come through for me! You might be ahead to call them and tell them you would be getting into left hand threading, sometimes it is good to give them some time to get there ducks in a row and call you back that has worked good for me from time to time! I wish we lived closer I could teach you to thread in no time it is not hard just don’t have anyone around you talking when you are doing this be alone not trying to scare you but you need to pay attention when you are single pointing threads I was a machinist for 35 years I have done alot of everything on lathes and mills we had to keep printing presses running and Bindery machines by making parts for them when the broke down 😯 dome days could be very trying to say the least!!
Go to youtube and type in threading on a lathe there is an older guy in there that shows you how to do it one of the best I have seen if I get a chance I will see if I can find it this evening and post it here for you 😉
Ah, great point!!! I am working on ag stuff as well as bicycle stuff, so left hand threading may be needed. To be honest I am kind of freaked out about threading. 😆 I’ve used a lathe but never done any threads on one!
The smaller Grizzly lathes are pretty small and I know i’d be looking for something larger as soon as I opened it up.
The 1″ capacity of the tailstock? is as large as I can afford right now and the smallest opening i’d consider. I’d love to get one that is larger but I don’t have the budget. Their gunsmithing lathe is really sweet but it’s in the 3k range and is so heavy it would probably crush my floor.
Thanks Eddie, i’ll look into the threading thing.
I have the Grizzly g0704 mill and I love it. I have also used a Grizzly shaper, once we got everything setup it was a great tool. Had the power feeder as well. It was a little freaky when we were milling large profile moldings with custom made blades but the shaper handled it without any issues.
I don’t 0wn one but the one you are looking at I am going to guess is going to be a good choice from what the specs say! I have several Grizzly tools for wood working and they are the best for the money IMO I am not sure what you will be making, I am assuming air gun parts and such this would be a very good choice in my opinion, I didn’t have time to check all the features but if you get a chance when I was looking a while back I looked at all the smaller lathes from Grizzly, and I wasn’t aware that most of them do not cut left hand threads, but one did and I don’t remember which one it was! Now I was a machinist for 35 years and cut left hand threads only a few times, because it just doesn’t come up much at all for needing left hand threads! so I would not put much on that for something you need. most of the bigger lathes do left hand threads to cut them you have to start at the chuck and cut back towards the tail stock with your 29 1/2 degree compound set just the opposite as when you cut regular right hand threads! I am not trying to discourage you from getting the one you are looking at it is a great choice, just something you can look into, all I do remember is out of the mini lathes they sell only one of them does left hand threads why??? they all don’t I have not a clue 😯
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You need to watch this guy do threads on a manual lathe in fact I encourage all to watch it, he is a bit fast and should have explained what he was doing better but I will here! put your threading tool in and square it up to your work peice they make a small guage for this you don’t really need to spend a bunch of time doing this square it off and center it in you shaft! first off on your compound you want it to be set at 29 1/2 degrees to the right of you as you are facing the lathe there are degree marks on your compound where you tool is locked down onfor left hand threads the compound needs to be to the left of you same degree setting 29 1/2,ok next make sure that your dial is on that compound is set to zero, take and move your cairrage over to the peice you are threading turn your cross slide in until you just touch off on your peice set the cross feed dial to zero, now if you watch the video he turns in the compound handle in, you only want to take a couple thousands at a time at the most or less depending on what you are threading the smaller the diameter the less you want to take because of flex, anyway turn in the compound a couple thousands remember your cross feed dial stays on zero engage your threading dial when you get to your stopping point disengage your threading handle then quickly turn out your cross feed dial just like you see him do in the video! ok move your apron back to the start of your thread make sure the cross feed dial you spun out to clear you part is back on zero again sometimes a red or yellow mark on it makes it easier to see that is why when you bump the cross feed out of the way at the end of the thread on your peice you want to go just enough to clear you peice and then go back to the front of your peice and the first thing you want to do is zero out the cross feed! turn in your compoud dial a couple more thousands then engage your threading dial once again when it gets to the end bump in out towards you just a bit then move the carrage back to the front of you work peice zero out cross feed again move the compound another couple thousands and do it all again! if you watch the video and there are more than this one but this guy is old time school and does it the way it should be done! try and remember what I told you here and watch the video you will begin to understand better what he is doing, if I could make a video I would but I have no means to! Now there is a formula for figuring how deep to take you threads say you are doing a 1/4 28 like he is doing you take the thread pitch which is 28 and divide it by a constant which the constant is the same for all american threads it is 750 so you take and divide the 28 threads per inch by 750 and you get 26.785 rounded off close so you are dealing in thousands when you figure this so you compound starting at zero you will move it in aprox 26 thousands plus a little this gets you really close and what I do is take the peice your are threading and try either a nut on it or the peice you are trying to mate to the peice you are threading and just try in see how it fits if it needs a bit more off take very small cuts until your peices thread together well without any play! One other thing when you reach the 26 thousands on this paticular thread the last couple cuts leave the compound at 26 thousands plus then for the last couple cuts move your cross slide in a thousands at a time you only want to take off a couple thousands doing this it will clean up the thread very nice, also alot of guys take a nice sharp lathe file and just clean the top of the thread a bit to take off that sharp edge if you end up with sharp edges on the top of the thread! This sounds like alot to do and for the first time it probably is but once you do it and get used to doing it, it becomes much easier. take some scrap and pratice.
Here is the link he has a couple others to and there are other post on threading watch them over seveal times if you have a laptop watch it while you do your own that might help hope you understand what I explained it is something that would be better hands on but pratice it and you will get better in no time, this is something you have to do and practice and once you get the hang of it you will be good to go 😯 😯
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umf4dDzK7fI
Another example of thread cutting this guy is taking off to much 10 thousands you can get by with that with a heavier shaft but to cut nice threads 2 to 3 thousands at the most in my book, watch how the shaft he is threading flexes!