Does anyone own a delta 46-255 or one of it's many clones?

[Sawdust=manglitter]

I recently acquired a Delta 46-255 lathe (very cheap) which gives me more versatility and capacity than my Record DML 24.

Anyways, I would like to make a hand wheel for it, therefore I would like to know if anyone could tell me what the thread size is (it doesn't appear to be metric)?

 

[lurker]

Without looking I think thats the same as mine

what hand wheel do you mean?

 

[Sawdust=manglitter]

The hand wheel is on the headstock the opposite end of the chuck, like...


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[Sawdust=manglitter]

The hand wheel is on the headstock the opposite end of the chuck, like...

 

[lurker]

Ok. Am with you.
Do you have all the gubbins to the tail stock except for the wheel itself?

 

[Sawdust=manglitter]

Sorry Lurker i probably didnt explain very well, i'm talking about the headstock handwheel as labelled below...

My lathe has none and probably never did as standard, but it is threaded as if it will take one, hence why i'd like to find out what bolt size will fit so i can make one for it.


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[lurker]

Fault is all mine. My lathe looks nothing like that

 

[lurker]

http://www.mikestools.com/download/Delt ... 46-250.pdf


Found this whilst looking to see what you have

 

[Sawdust=manglitter]

Soz again mate, that's isn't my lathe either, it's just a diagram that shows what a headstock handwheel is. This is my lathe...

And that red plastic thing can come off and there's a threaded bit at the end of the spindle that I could bolt in a lathe made wooden headstock handwheel.

 

[lurker]

Now that's exactly my lathe!

There isn't a bit goes on there normally
Can't remember ever removing the red plastic bit.
Have had the lathe 12 years!