I have an Easy Core for my lathe with a 24" swing. Can the same base be used on a lathe with a 16" swing? Is it just a matter of using shorter metal posts inside the base unit? Thanks.
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Oneway Easy Core 24" vs 16"
- Thread starter Ed Weingarden
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The knife sets do have adjustable height. According to Oneway it works from 14" to 26".
Thanks Steve
The knife sets do have adjustable height on them, but you need a separate base for use on a 16 inch lathe. I have one base for my Robust, and one for my Liberty, a 16 inch Robust that they no longer make. The blades for the 24 inch will still work, but the posts on the blades will be too long. Do contact Oneway, they will help you out.
robo hippy
robo hippy
Thanks Robo...I'll give Oneway a call.
YES!, My friend Gary and I shared the cost of a Easy Core system. We bought the set to fit his Robust Am Beauty 25" swing and then bought the extra set of posts from Oneway to fit my 20" PM3520. Each set of posts have a steel plug in the bottom (locked in with a set screw) that the knives spin on. the plug is removable. The plugs in the posts for the Robust are longer than the plugs in the posts for the PM3520.
As mentioned above, the knives have an adjustment for height. We set the knives to be at proper cutting height for his Robust. Put the knives in the post for my PM3520 and they were about an 1/8" below center for me. I just took the plugs out and dropped a fender washer into the post, reinserted the plugs and was dead on center.
Another guy in our club has to different lathes with different swings. He set the knives for cutting on center for the lathe with the highest swing. Then for the other lathe to cut at center height he cut some new plugs out of steel rod he had on hand the proper length.
@Ricc Havens - great info; thanks.