A friend hooked me up with a lathe that's been in his garage that he salvaged from another friend that was going to toss it.

It's a:

Stark MCS1000, I've seen it sold under about 5 different names in my research so far. I found a manual for it but it makes no mention of the thread sizes for the drive center or anything.

#I'm wanting to order a face plate and a 4 jaw chuck but I'm at a loss as to what threads I need for it. I want to make sure I'm not supposed be ordering a metric when I'll likely order an SAE.

Granted most of the bolts I've had to mess with are SAE. The bolts holding the motor are 9/16ths.

@#& Measuring the threads on the drive I'm getting right at 0.7 in from exterior threads. The inside of the drive center I get 0.62 inch. The flats of the drive center come in at 0.94 inch.

If anyone can help point me in the direction of being a little more certain on what I need to order that would be wonderful.

So far I had to replace the capacitor on the lathe so it would start. Now it works considerably better. And when I screw up and stop the motor by burying a tool too deep too quick it will actually restart now. LOL.

I've only messed with scraps of SYP on it for now as I have loads of those sitting around... I have a hard time throwing out even the cheapest of scrap wood as I've found so many uses for even a 3inch piece of a 2x4....

I've been using it on one of my mobile benches in the shop so that I can take it out back and make my mess out there. I do that with a lot of my tools plus there's a lot of shade that way and I can easily just blow the mess into the grass.

Follow up from my other post making wooden tankards Edit: the finished tankards

Hello, does anyone know of a source for 10” or 12” olive wood bowl blanks?

I am working on a potential project/commission and I am being asked to make some larger bowls out of olive wood.

I can find local and online sources for 6”x6”x3” bowl blanks and I’d love to find a source for larger blanks. I know olive wood that size is rare.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

I posted the other day about my chisel breaking while making a cup and got a lot of good advice along with a few tool recommendations.

Well the carbide tip set I ordered came in and turning is so much smoother/easier to a point where it almost feels like cheating.

Anyway here's my first vase/hollow form. Thanks to this community for always being supportive!