Unimat Problem

[Paul Jones]

Melkal,

If you can find the book "The Shop Wisdom" by Rudy Kouhoupt for Volume I (edited by Joe D. Rice), you will find many tips and inspirations to using the small 3" swing Unimat and all sorts of unique homemade tool adaptations for this lathe. The book also proves the capability of the small Unimat. In this book Volume I, Rudy also had a Perris lathe (Page Title) and with both lathes he created some very nice small steam engines.

One word of advice with the original Unimat SL 1000 or DB200 are the motors. The original motors are are NOT continuous duty and require approximately eight minutes running on and then about two minutes off cooling period or risk destroying the expense motors. When the Unimat motor temperature exceeds 130 F or 140 F (60 C) shut it down. You can just feel the temperature by hand and know it is way too hot. Years ago, I converted my Unimat lathe motors to the continuous duty Unimat U-100 motors.

Good luck with your Unimat and please check the books by Rudy Kouhoupt,

Regards,

Paul Jones