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The most common is the 56 mm, originally fitted with a Polish-made 3-jaw chuck identifiable by a single key hole. Held in place by a rather inconvenient 3-stud bolt-on arrangement, chucks are found with three different recess diameters: 55 mm and 56 mm each with M6 bolts, and 63 mm with M5 bolts. These are available from time to time - please see this page for details. There were four spindle speeds from 250 to 2000 rpm and, although provided with changewheels and a leadscrew, the high bottom speed rather mitigated against attempting to use the lathe for screwcutting - unless you employed the inexpensive third-party supplied "low-speed" pulley assembly. #HOBBYMAT UNIVERSAL MD65 LATHE MANUAL FULL#While the bed was steel - and formed in the manner of a Geneva-pattern watchmaker's lathe being round with a flat section along its full length at the top - the supporting base-plate was in aluminium. If you have a ZMM Hobby 120, the writer would like to hear from you.Ī neat, well-designed little lathe of 65 mm (2.6") centre height by 300 mm (12") between centres, the original Hobbymat found great favour amongst the makers of smaller models, jewellers and watch repairers - and has long proved a very-popular second-hand buy. One notable improvement was the use of a very much more robust lever assembly to engage and disengage the leadscrew dog clutch. The supporting baseplate and headstock were in cast iron and, in place of the MD65's standard 8 mm V-belts (the correct type can be ordered here), narrow 5 mm Gates type were employed - this change necessitating alterations to the changewheel drive. The Bulgarians also got in on the act with the ZMM Company offering the green-finished " Hobby 120 Sliven " - a machine based on the MD65 but with a number of significant differences including a round main bed with no flat, the carriage being stabilised by small diameter, bed-length bar to the rear. ![]() During the early 1980s the Chinese made an exact copy of the MD65, (even to painting it the same shade of yellow) - however, it can easily be distinguished from the real thing by its use of a very heavy cast-iron base-plate, poor detail finishing and a lack of standard accessories. The lathe was also made in a wood-turning version as the MD120 ( described here) - this too being branded with a variety of names including "Farner" and Al-Ko Kober. Made originally in what used to be "East Germany", by VEB Prazisionsdrehmaschinen (now, Unitech) the Hobbymat MD65 Universal (as it was known in the UK) and BFE vertical milling attachment and stand-alone miller were also marketed in the USA as part of the Prazimat range - and in parts of Europe as the Saupe & Sohn, Proxxon, Kober and Alko. #HOBBYMAT UNIVERSAL MD65 LATHE MANUAL MANUALS#Hobbymat Lathe and milling machine manuals can be ordered on-line here.Īlso available: belts, changewheels and the slow-speed attachment Hobbymat BFE Milling Machine Hobbymat Wood Lathe Prazimat Lathes Prazimat SD300 Lathes & BFE Milling MachineĪlso branded as Al-Ko Kober, Farmer, Proxxon, This web site is part of the .uk web site Machine Tool Manuals Catalogues Belts Books Accessories #HOBBYMAT UNIVERSAL MD65 LATHE MANUAL ARCHIVE#Hobbymat, Kober, Alko, Prazimat, Proxxon, Saupe & Sohn and VariantĮmail: t Machine Tool Archive Machine-tools Sal e & Wanted ![]()
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