I have a Warner & Swasey m-1420 I'm trying to get back running again. Several years ago, someone "repaired" the keyway on the driveshaft of this lathe, as a temporary fix. I think he modified the woodruff key and the keyway in the driveshaft, and over the last few years its started to "flop around" and wore out the keyways. We've had a couple of people who deal with old machines come and look at it, and both have given us a pretty wild estimate of repair cost and pretty much said people don't fix them anymore just scrap it and find another. When we had this machine repaired years back, we ended up finding a 2nd m-1420 that had initially been bought for parts, but was so nice it's now up and running as well.
I'm on the hunt for the driveshaft and possibly the pulley that attaches to it. Does anyone make/keep parts for these things? I tried to reach out to Gahr a few months back when I was rebuilding the tool post but I never heard back from them.
I'm on the hunt for the driveshaft and possibly the pulley that attaches to it. Does anyone make/keep parts for these things? I tried to reach out to Gahr a few months back when I was rebuilding the tool post but I never heard back from them.