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Bookmark or Share- How Happy Are You With Your Sherline Lathe?? - The Hobby-MachinistThe Sherline does not like to part from the front but it will part from the rear at very high speeds without a hitch. A P1-N blade is all you need to part anything on this lathe. You will repeatedly hear guys tell you that you cannot make big parts on a small lathe but you can make small parts on a big lathe.
- Sherline vs Taig mill - The Hobby-MachinistThe Taig mill is substantially larger / heavier at 80lbs vs 30lbs for the base Sherline 5000 mill (Sherline has 3 distinct mill families 5000 series, 2000 series and the 5800 series). Sherline offers manual, and CNC ready machines up to complete turn key CNC packages including all the hardware, software and even the computer.
- Making Gears on Sherline mill - How? | NAWCC ForumsHello I would really like to get into making clock and watch wheels and pinions. I bought a Sherline mill for this purpose and also the CNC rotaty indexer. I wanted to use the fly cutting method. I read various bits on the web and watched the videos but somehow, I am just stuck, mentally...
- Sherline Lathe Power Feed - The Hobby-MachinistIt easily dials down to speeds as low as 6 rpm (about 0.3 inches per minute feed). The Sherline standard power feed (no longer sold) is 20rpm / 1" per minute for comparison. From the picture you can see I mounted the gearmotor some distance away from the headstock. The clearance allows the headstock to be turned for cutting tapers.
- Older Sherline 4000 for Beginners First Lathe? - The Hobby-MachinistToday a 1976 Sherline 4000 came up locally on Craigslist. It includes the Sherline 3050 Milling Column attachment for the lathe base, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, and a jacobs chuck for the tailstock. This is the original US made model with a brass lathe bed and milling column and a 1/5 HP AC/DC motor.
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