Monarch 10EE lathe refurb part 28

Well, ran into a little issue that I want to address before chips start flying. Quick chat about it and what will be the fix

[@giannirocco7492]

Just watched your first video concerning the 10EE and look forward to seeing the rest.Bought mine a little less than a year ago and although it's working it's going to want some attention sometime soon so your videos will come in real handy!You probably haven't heard the last from me and thanks for posting!

[@fourpondsshop7940]

Hi and thanks for watching! Feel free to reach out anytime... I'll offer any advice or suggestions, even if they're not correct!

[@bid6413]

Kevin, I bought the set of nuts on eBay. I think the crossfeed nut will need to be machined, but haven’t got there yet. Huge improvement. The before and after pics are great. Still don’t know why you didn’t choose to redo the 30”? I will go up to my shop tomorrow and take a look at the eBay nuts and let you know what I find out. Cheers, Will

[@fourpondsshop7940]

Hi Will, so I went ahead and ordered the set from the guy on EBay. We'll see how they work! I'll do a video on it. So...why not do the 30"? Well, I gave the topic quite a bit of consideration. What it boiled down to was I rarely if ever use my current 20" to its capacity. I also have a 40" Chinese lathe that I will set up with the metric threading gear set and leave it that way so I'll use the Monarch for most work and SAE threading and the Chinese lathe for the work needing longer bed length and metric threading. I felt there will certainly be someone in the world that would love to have a 30" 10EE and would put it to better use than me.

[@mikepelelo5657]

Those Monarch folks are really proud of their stuff. Hope you can find something out there that is a bit more bearable.

[@fourpondsshop7940]

I did find someone on EBay selling them.

[@diondecker9895]

If we want to keep being able to use the Monarch resources, we will occasionally have to support them financially. When we need critical documentation, where are we going to turn?

[@warbirdwf]

Wow.. those nut prices are crazy expensive. No wonder companies no longer make lathes in the USA. I was speaking to a company that sells Taiwanese lathes that are good quality. The 12x40 lathes are in the $6 to $8k range but they are backordered for months. I said to him that it's a shame that no one makes lathes in the USA anymore. He said this $6-8K lathe would cost $40-50K if it was made in the USA! Scary.

[@fourpondsshop7940]

I think this is a pretty complicated topic actually. I have a manufacturing company that I started in my 2 car garage and have battled cheap Asian competition for years. From what I see, there's significant government subsidies in most of those countries in order to "dominate" whatever sector they target. I've seen a situation where a machining company received basically a non restricted government grant to completely outfit a modern CNC machine shop. No strings like we see in the US. Of course there's a risk of fraud but with a reasonable amount of oversight, most companies like mine would put that money to good use. The other thing is regulatory issues. We tried to put in a powder coating line and after a couple of years of the local and state government moving the goal posts on the permitting process we gave up. We have two trucks per day shuttling parts back and forth to the powder coater! The other thing regarding the pricing from Monarch is probably economies of scale. They most likely have very small lot sizes for these sorts of parts and the short run pricing is very high no matter where it's done.

[@warbirdwf]

@@fourpondsshop7940 Agree, it's a long conversation. There's a kid from Malaysia that has a machinist channel on KZbin. He's very talented on a lathe he works on at work. Poor working conditions at his job but he does amazing work with what he has. He makes $10 dollars a day at his job. First, manufacturing went to Mexico for it's much cheaper labor. Then onto Asia/China for it's very inexpensive labor. I think we're going to continue to see manufacturing jobs dry up in the USA with our expensive labor costs. Sad, but it's reality.

[@darrenblattner2508]

That hurts. I would make my own for that price. Ebay may be the answer also

[@fourpondsshop7940]

I thought about that but I would want to do it with an ACME tap and they're pretty expensive. Ebay option is the way I'll go

[@JSokil]

Not sure if you check these comments regularly, I'm up in Albany. Clearing out a machine shop in Schenectady. I'd like to pick your brain on a couple things. Not sure how to private message on here.

[@fourpondsshop7940]

email at [e-mail]. Thanks

[@russkepler]

Miller Manufacturing will make nuts and screws

[@fourpondsshop7940]

I think those are the folks I found on Ebay

[@russkepler]

@@fourpondsshop7940 Miller is in Illinois, the ones I see on ebay ship from Kansas. At $200 you're in range of buying the taps and materials to make them yourself. If you have a good press you might make do by pressing the nut lengthwise. You can often get another couple of months of use from one that way. Once.

[@mikescott4007]

Ouch

[@fourpondsshop7940]

They throw a few Band-Aids in the box just for that!

[@mikescott4007]

Lol