First Chips on the Emco Unimat SL and Full Reassembly

The Emco Unimat SL is a small hobby engineer's lathe first made available in the 1950s. It features bed rails made from parallel round bars, a simple flexible design, and a huge range of accessories and add-ons which make it astonishingly versatile.

I'm between workshops for a few months, and I picked this lathe up second hand as a project I can work on with minimal space and equipment. In this video I spend some time reassembling the lathe, mounting it on it's base, and trying it out with a new hand-ground tool.

The links below will financially support this channel if you use them to buy stuff:

Materials:
Shims for any mini lathe: https://ebay.us/dFtabH
Unimat SL Spindle Bearings: https://ebay.us/MDbnlr
4mm High Speed Steel Tool Blank: http://bit.ly/3YDyZnY
Mobil Vectra 1 Slideway Oil: https://ebay.us/kBy96G

Tools:
6inch Bench Grinder: http://bit.ly/3IavaB6

Hats off to Bills Workbench who did a much better job of rebuilding the Unimat SL spindle.

Bills Workbench:
https://www.youtube.com/@BillsWorkben...

Bill's video on overhauling the Unimat SL headstock:
   • Unimat SL Headstock Overhaul  

Many thanks to Paul at The Knackler's Workshop for his series on a similar lathe. He really helped me know what I was getting myself into, and where to start. If you're impatient to find out more, go and watch his series while you wait for more videos from me.

The Knackler's Workshop:
   / theknacklersworkshop  

Paul's Unimat SL Playlist:
   • Emco Unimat SL - Restoration - Page 1...  

00:00 Introduction
00:36 Spindle Rebuild
05:51 Tailstock Assembly
07:46 Carriage Assembly
11:42 Bed Assembly
19:46 Tailstock Fitting
20:37 Headstock Fitting
23:06 Lathe Base Mounting
24:55 Replacement Chuck
25:57 Grinding a Lathe Tool
29:21 Setting the Tool Height
31:27 Test Facing Brass
32:02 Test Turning Brass
33:50 Testing with Steel

Edited with:
Davinci Resolve 18.1.2
Audacity 3.1.3

Music:
Easy Lemon by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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