Unimat Lathe Faceplate and Faceplate Clamps

[alainbiggun]

interesting!!!
please,i don't knows your motor..is it a new model.?. i seen other model,too small..and same color as the lathe-grey ou green.

[WmRMeyers]

interesting!!!
please,i don't knows your motor..is it a new model.?. i seen other model,too small..and same color as the lathe-grey ou green.

Alain, If I'm not mistaken about what you asking about, that is a 100watt motor that was available for the Unimat SL & DB models. They're rare, and expensive if you can find one. Just one of their advantages is that they can be run for hours! The U90 model motors are more common, but rated 80%, so you are supposed to run the the lathe for 8 minutes, and let it cool for 2 minutes. I, and several other folks, are working at converting our Unimats to use a 150watt 24VDC motor that is relatively cheap, and readily available.

I had started making a faceplate myself, but the piece of mystery metal I used turned out to be very hard, and even on a larger lathe and with carbide tooling, was very difficult to cut. Gave up on that piece, and made a couple milling tables instead. Paul does some nice work, doesn't he? There are other folks here: https://groups.io/g/Unimat who also do nice work.