Hi Guys(and gals, I just recently purchased a Dalton lathe at a estate sale and in doing research found the site Oldarn, and Andy from there sent me here to...
Welcome aboard! I have a Southbend countershaft for my Dalton... Works just fine. There's a picture of it before I got it up and running in the photo's ...
Thanks Tim, you just opened another door for me. I guess I have to keep searching places like Englishtown for the countershaft....there is a guy in ...
This has been in my garage probably since my great-grandpa lived there. I don't know anything about old lathes, and thought one of you Dalton enthusiasts could...
Cari, Just a few suggestions. 1. There may be information about your lathe on this website http://www.lathes.co.uk/. 2. If you want to sell it, eBay is one...
Hello all, I have a Mitutoyo dial caliper that I just took apart to clean. Seems there was a spring hiding in there. It looks like it goes in between the two...
There is a B-6 currently listed on Ebay. It has the cast iron stand and possibly a Dalton overhead drive. Not sure the drive is listed as part of the...
Can aluminum be used for headstock bushings if there is enough oil ? My bronze bushings were way too far gone and now there is a delrin bushing in their place...
Hi All Well now we have number six or seven lot six 8 1/2 inch swing Daltons now known of. This size Dalton was built between 1915 and 1929. In the small...
I have a Dalton Lot B4 #3092 c. 1920-1923 for sale in San Diego. I posted a photo album under the name of "John Brody's Dalton". I inherited the lathe and the...
I need a picture of the milling arbor used on the Dalton Combination Machine. Mine did not come with one and I'm not sure what type it takes, or how it looks....
PK, You have a combo machine? I thought that I had the only one. I'll try to get a picture of the arbor tomorrow and send it too you. Where are you? Where did...
Hi PK Turk here If you go to Tony's site in England you will find some pictures I took of a combo machine that was here in Oregon a few years ago. Tony's site...
... have much more tooling than I do. I live up here in Noxon, Montana. I found this machine at a local auction. An old machinest sold out and he had two...
I need to build a motor mount but beyond that it looks good to go. I'm still looking for an arbor for the horizontal mill and a operators manual. PK...
Greetings to all, I've only just joined this group having bought a lot 2 lathe through eBay UK about 18 months ago. Messages 122 and 123 refer to it. I've...
Although the photo files are extensive, can anyone refer me to a file, photo or sketch of the collet closer/holder parts? Whose machine should I look closer at...
Mike, I added some pics of my collet closer for my B-6. The album is Lot 6 s/n 167. If you have a Lot 4, I believe it only uses 3c collets. The dimensions...
Hi Mike and Jim Yes the Lot 2 3 4 and 5 only use 3C collets. The Lot 6 and the we think Lot 7 or 8 (unfound models) used the 3C and the 4C. Ya know Jim I am...
....perhaps my lathe was used differenly. I have in my box of goodies, a bunch of collets and an adapter like a morse 1-2 that fits in the spindle. There are...
Without seeing the collets, it's difficult to say what you have. There are collet chucks that don't use a draw bar. I'm thinking of spring collets and flex...
Hi guys Well we have finally found a 9 inch Dalton. Its sitting 15 miles from Pittsburgh and was on eBay very briefly yesterday but a quick email and a phone...
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