Harrison M250 lathe

RED equipment: Do not use without specific training.

harrison lathe

Harrison M250 lathe

Induction Required

See Alan Scrase

Ownership

Owned by the Hackspace

PPE

The lathe is fairly safe until it isn't. It has extreme power and does not care about you.

Clothing

1. Long hair tied back and covered (see lathe scalping on youtube)
2. No loose clothing (see lathe strangulation)
3. No gloves (see lathe skin degloving)
4. No Jewellery – necklaces, rings, bracelets
5. Safety glasses - One metal chip will mess up your eye
6. Consider Ear defenders
7. Stout footwear

Link to manual https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqoq5urmsyl0gsx/Harrison_m250.pdf?dl=0

Instructions

• Lathe Getting Started
• Basic Controls
• Change tool
• Cut thread
• [[Measuring movement]

= Tool holder

• Dickson (aka T2 Quick Change Tool Post) http://www.lathes.co.uk/latheparts/page13.html
• Max tool height : 28mm (confirm this)

Tail stock

• morse taper 3 (MT3)

= Tooling Available

• Various cutting tools - both HSS and Carbide tipped
• Parting off tool
• Jacobs chuck
• Dead centres

= Tooling wishlist

• Knurling tool - There should be one I will confirm - Alan 15/10/20