New to me Enco 9 X 20 lathe
by
Ronald E. Thompson
3-31-2011
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This is the lathe and stand as bought. It came from an estate sale with a little tooling. I must say, it is a sweet to use machine. Much easier than my monster Monarch!



I don't know what you might be looking for, so a lot of the photos may seem redundant.



This lathe didn't come with a manual, and I wasn't able to find one on the Internet. I called Enco and they sent me a photo copy. I scanned it to PDF. It turns out it is a re-branded CT-918A.
CT-918 Manual.


















As you can see below, the spring is missing from the belt tensioner. I was able to order this from Grizzly. Their G4000 is almost identical.
http://www.grizzly.com/products/9-x-19-Bench-Lathe/G4000







Pretty small footprint.




 

 



























These are the gears I got with it. They look unused. Unfortunately, after studying the threading charts, I am missing a couple. It's a good thing I am planning on making this CNC!
Those keyless chucks are sweet!


As received, this was wired for 220 VAC. Since I didn't know exactly where it was going to live, yet, I decided to make it 110.

 
These photos show it wired for 220.

 





 It was.

 









I really need to remove those wheels. Lathes are top heavy and I sure don't want it to turn over. The stand is kind of short, though.

Now, how to mount those steppers...