Subject: Sherline Mods

From: [email-masked] (Chuck Sherwood)
Date: 12 Dec 1996 19:07:05 GMT

Hi everyone.

A while back someone posted a referece to some Sherline lathe mods.
These mods rigidly attached the headstock to the bed and made the
tailstock adjustable.  (I hope they retained the ability to disable it
so that I can rotate the headstock to turn a taper)

I thought I saved this information but I cant seem to find it. 
Does anyone else know where I can find it? 

I did find an article about some mods someone made to a mill using
a headstock spacer, which may be helpful.

Thanks
chuck sherwood
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Chuck Sherwood
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From: Reginald barron <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Dec 1996 15:44:06 GMT

>a headstock spacer, which may be helpful.

This "might" be what you are looking for:
The September 1975 issue of Model Railroader had an
article by Robert Higgins in which he described 
"improvements" to the Sherline.  For example, he
trued up the three jaw chuck, adjusted the tailstock
alignment, adjusted the headstock "dead on" and drilled,
reamed for taper pins to get it repeatable.
Also described were nylon way gibs, a rocker toolpost,
fitting a boring head, and micrometer stops.  Kalmbach publishes
MR and they have a web page, they also have a photo copy
service for back articles.  Their home page is:

http://www.kalmbach.com/mr/modelrailroader.html

Their E-mail is: [email-masked]

There have been numerous articles by Rudy Kouhoupt in 
HSM that describe valuable attachements that will work
on Sherlines, Unimats, and other small machines.  See
his Shop Wisdom books (Vol 1 and 2) published by Village 
Press.  Their address/phone number should be is the FAQ.

Reg Barron (still waiting for my copy ov Vol 2)