Mega Adept

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

I don't think theres anything wrong with the adept, as a concept it was very modern, that being a really basic, simple, plain turning lathe that anyone could afford.

So long as what IS there is good, why is a basic machine bad for being basic?

It's kind of like a makers wish come true in the sense that there's so much you could modify it to be.

I could imagine someone buying up 6 or 7 of those and making a kind of wickman's revolving multispindle machine with it on the cheap!

Michael W

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

I'm sailing close to the wind, as my first lathe was a Portass "S" which has just as many fingers and close relatives as the Adept family. But it served me well in my teens, so I shouldn't knock them.

My most ridiculous creation was a full-sized baseball bat made from a fence post. As you can imagine, this required some ingenuity to pull off (on a 12" centres machine) but it seemed to me at the time that this was what model engineering was about.

[Saskatoon Model Engineering SocietyParticipant @saskatoonmodelengineeringsociety]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 11/10/2016 08:13:51:

Posted by Saskatoon Model Engineering Society on 11/10/2016 02:44:16:

Change gears look good, Neil. I gave up on doing a change gear set for mine and made a belt and worm wheel single speed leadscrew drive instead. It can be seen in the photo, the yellow thing is the plastic bearing block for the worm which can be swung in or out of engagement with the leadscrew gear.

A bit off topic, here's a pic of mine with a shop made milling spindle and vertical slide being used to mill lengths of home cast bronze into 5/32" hex bar stock for making #4-40 UNC hex head bolts.

Is here an Adept under all that?

Neil

Yes there is, Neil. Described in my post of 10/10/2014.

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