Subject: Sheldon Lathe

From: [email-masked] (Bob Bickers)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 96 19:04:16 GMT

A friend of mine just bought a Sheldon 12X36 lathe Ser.#KRTQ2416. Can anyone 
point me in the right direction to obtain an owners/ operator manual. Also 
does Sheldon still exist, who bought them? Any good parts source, not that it 
needs anything as its seen little use. Thanks, Bob.

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From: Alan Reinhart <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:29:52 -0400

> needs anything as its seen little use. Thanks, Bob.

Here is an address and telno from a few years back.
Have a 10" Sheldon. BE READY FOR STICKER SHOCK if 
you call for prices!  :-(  They wanted $400 (!!!) for a new bull
gear, and $150 for a lousy lighthouse type tool holder. I did
cough up $100 for new half nuts, the rest I did myself.

National Acme Co
Sheldon Machine Div
PO Box 949
Fremont, Ohio, 43420
419-334-8971

Regards and best luck

=Alan R.

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From: [email-masked] (Jon Anderson)
Date: 30 Apr 1996 20:24:05 GMT

Alan,

You want sticker shock? Try $1800 for a new crossfeed screw and bronze nut
for my DoAll 6x12 surface grinder!  I found an outfit that will one-off the screw
to .001/foot accuracy for $165, and I'm going to cast new threads in the old nut
with Moglice, a castable bearing polymer.

Nothing like sticker shock to get the creative juices flowing!

 Jon

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From: [email-masked] (Jon Anderson)
Date: 2 May 1996 05:24:28 GMT

Alan requested via Email that I post some details on Moglice, so here it is.

Moglice is a low friction castable bearing material. It comes in a thin injectable 
form, or a paste that can be troweled on. One side of a way must be restored 
to perfect condition. For a lathe, this means grinding the bed. The carraige would
then have it's ways machined or ground back approx 1/16 inch. Small shims of 
Moglice are glued to the freshly prepped ways, and are scrapped until the carraige
is in proper alignment. The carraige is removed, the ways coated with release agent,
Moglice is applied to the carraige way surfaces, and the carraige is placed back on 
the ways. The putty will flow until the previously scraped pads come into contact with
the ways. There it sits until the Moglice cures, at which time the carraige is again removed,
and any excess is chiseled, filed, machined off, and any needed oil holes and grooves 
are done. You now have a low friction, wear resistant bearing surface, with much 
better contact that can be obtained by most scrapers. 
I'll be using the injectable version to cast new threads in the crossfeed nut of a 
surface grinder I'm restoring. (I'll post something on how that turns out after I get
some time on it)

Moglice, and some interesting related products are carried by:

Devitt Machinery Co.
4009-G Market Street
Aston, PA  19014
610-494-2900
610-494-7541 fax

An example of costs: 100 grams of Moglice (injectable) costs $34.75,
and will fill approx 3 cubic inches. The release agent costs $24.25, and
is enough to do several Bridgeport class mills. Devitt has a video available
for loan that shows some real impressive applications.

This could be a neat, low cost method of building some high precision home
machinery.

 Jon

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 1 May 1996 06:23:49 GMT

Bob,
  If you call me in my office (800-275-1240), I can look up Sheldon and see if they show a rep or a factory phone number for 
you.  I am a used machinery dealer and have a shelf full of those type of resource guides.
  -- Mark Rogo, Morton Machinery Co , Los Angeles, Ca