> Gunner Asch <
gunne...@gmail.com> on Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:32:13 -0800
> typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
>>On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:46:19 -0600, Ignoramus10472
>><ignoram...@NOSPAM.10472.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2014-01-14, Gunner Asch <
gunne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Got this request a few moments ago
>>>>
>>>> "I found your name and email on a CNC forum about repairing Monarch
>>>> lathes. I have a 1944 Monarch 12?ck (I think) and am in need of the a
>>>> Headstock Spindle Speed Change Lever. Would you have one of these or
>>>> know where I could find one?"
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas of where to find one for the gentleman?
>>>
>>>As most of these lathes, still found, are good for scrap only, I
>>>would keep watching ebay. I scrapped a lathe like that once and sold a
>>>lot of parts that typically break when these lathes are mishandled.
>>>
>>>i
>>
>>If you run across one...or that part...let me know. Its from a guy at
>>a college machine shop trying to keep a machine going.
>
> Might have to turn it into a "Multi Discipline Project" - design a
> mold, cast it, machine to fit.
Hmmm... I was just thinking before I read your reply, that making a new
handle might be a good class/shop project.