Welcome to the group! Aside from my Craftsman 12x18 lathe, I picked up a Unimat SL a couple of years back. Now you'll be able to say "...with a really, really small lathe"

If you need any help leave me a message. I've been working on Unimats for about 10 years and know them inside out. 🙂 Btw, tapers are cut by setting the headstock to an angle.

Oh yes!!! I have a Unimat SL also! I can't wait for more videos!

Happy to see you posting again.

Great to see you posting again. Hope you home sells quickly and you fund another one. Looking forward to seeing what you learn about this lathe.

Thanks for this update on your progress. It’ll be fun to see what you can do with the little Unimat.

New series: adventures with an _extremely small_ lathe

Happy to see you posting again. 👍😊

One of my favorite channels. Will be waiting for more. Best of luck.

I have one of these, they are fun but simple. Tapers can be done but are setup from the spindle. Remove the little pin under the label on the spindle, this indexes roughly parallel. To unlock, there's an allen bolt under the large pulley. Loosen to rotate the spindle or if you want you can back out the bolt more and pull off the spindle to fit the riser or use it as a drill press with that extra bar that was included. The spindle is currently locked by the two bolts either side of the handle with the pinion , loosen them and the pinion will allow for the spindle to move. Not sure if it's in the box, but yours appears to be missing the spring that would support the spindle when vertical, it should be between the spindle housing and the pulley.

I look forward to this series.

Good to see you mate! looks like a great little project, keen to see what you come up with!

Great to see you again mate:) The lathe looks very interesting and I am looking for your next video about that.

Nice to see your back working on small lathes please as you have given me great ideas and insights into upgrading my own lathe

Will learn with you, Thanks.

Good to see you're back! Looks like an interesting project so can't wait for the series. Good luck with the house sale. ...wish I could convert my kitchen into a machine shop........

That is great you are taking on the unimat. I have one, it was my great uncle’s. He made clocks. I have one of his clocks also, it needs to be cleaned and oiled. It is a grandmother clock it is beautiful. I hope to learn more about the unimat. The guide rails flex a lot. Thanks for sharing!

Looking forward to it

Great. A nice new toy to play with. That's a high quality lathe you've got there.

As soon as I saw the package I guessed it was a unimat! I have one along with a Colchester Triumph. Rather a difference. Love them both.

Thanks for sharing!

Looking forward to seeing the inerts of this lathe!

I like how you've done a "backstory" narration over the unboxing... Some people like unboxings but I find them pretty dull... but this way, we get the best of both worlds.

Good acquisition, we look forward to a new video, as always, with a complete restoration and improvements!

Oh boy have you got a project there! Hold on while I go order some popcorn, I don't want to miss a minute of this. Congratulations.

That tailstock is really adorable. I like this small lathe (well, it certainly deserves a "smol"). Looks nice and small but rigid and with that motor, very powerful.

looks like a good small lathe....looking forward to seeing it up and running.

Looking forward to your Unimat SL rebuild. I did a light restoration on mine a couple of years ago, since then have been adding accessories, including some great contemporary new components available on eBay, including a nifty kit to convert the SL to basic CNC using an Arduino running GRBL. Will be watching eagerly for your spindle rebuild, something I need to do soon. Thanks !

Gday, great to see you back mate, I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with this lathe, this is going to be a great series, hope your keeping well, take care, Cheers

Hi Moving is not fun but sure can be rewarding it was for us here in the USA, we wish it will be equally for you. What a fun approach to machine tools. Lance & Patrick.

Good to see you back! I can’t imagine what an awful life those poor Lego men are living during this move! Ha! I’ve been fascinated by these machines since the 70’s, but never have owned one. Looking forward to this! Stay well!

A unimat! Welcome!!! This is great... :)

Welcome back man. We've all missed you.

2:09 You said my favorite word for projects: "bootstrap." I am always interested in new ways to start things (from scratch is even better!). I'm looking forward to your following videos with this lathe.

Great to see you back again. This looks like an interesting project, looking forward to seeing your restoration. Don't take any paint mixing tips from Paul lol! (I know he won't mind me saying) Cheers, Jon.

Way to go buddy 👍

That's a very nice machine. Pity there was nothing similar to buy where I live, I had to improvise a lathe. Your video on granite base helped me a lot.

Got one of those beautys. Awesome Machines. I am using a 12v escooter Motor quiet and strong enough with adjustable rpm

Hello, I have one of these machines too. Only with the newer motor which has a plastic carcass and is not so prone to overheating "they" say. It is a very versatile machine, but it is not very rigid. One has to take very light cuts when turning. And when milling one notes this lack rigidity even more. But in the end ts all about knowing your machine, any machine, and respect its limitations. There is one thing I would really recommend you to do, when all is clean and ready for putting together again (if your machine is of the zamak alloy type too like mine): It is an absolute must to fit a brass or delrin washer to every one of the three hand wheels in order to separate the aluminium hand wheel from the zamak body. These two material have a nasty tendency to gall and bind, and I remember the first times this happened to me, and the cross slide was "frozen" in place, I was looking for the fault in the cross slide thread and the lead screw (imagine my terror). But I eventually found out, that it was the hand wheel and the body of the lathe with some lone chip in-between causing the problem. Once I fitted some brass washers the problem never produced itself again. Giving the hand wheels more slack to overcome the problem would only give you more back lash as the design already has... better go for the washers. Greetings from the north of Spain.

That is a nifty looking lathe. Will be interesting to see what you do with it. I do know of a person who owned one of these lathes. He is capable of machining to such high tolerances it makes the mind boggle. He attributes it to working with this lathe and it's rubbery tendency. He stated that at higher precision heavy industrial equipment reacts the same way as this lathe does. Interesting to think.

Why you took so long to post videos ! Welcome back man we've missed u

A few thoughts: The motor is way to big but it will allow you to part wood/brass/aluminum while the original lathe motor is too week to do that. The unimat angle turning is done by releaseing the positioning pin and the spindle/motor-mount locking screw. Then you just tilt it to the desired angle and turn. Of course this means you have lost concentricity and you will have to re-adjust it. The milling tool post (the heavy steel bar) is used to turn the lathe into a mill. As a mill the unimat is far less rigid than as alathe. As a mill its round bar will easily cause you to loose your concentricity and position - but the extra mounting block for the bar is brilliant. I'm guessing you could mount a second unimat motor/spindle setup and turn the unimat into a compound lathe/mill machine. Enjoy...

I would like to see how you can improve the precision, and reduce inaccuracies like backlash and slop, in old machine tools such as this. In terms of projects, something clockwork would be lovely.

Hi, good to see you back. I hope you find a good house soon. There's a video by "smallathe" about a compound for this lathe (I think). Would be a fun project. If you need any bits machining, I'm happy to help.

looks nice! ive got a similar sized lathe, the Taig - i think they’re sold as ‘Peatol’ in the UK. Thanks for all the videos!

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i had a unimat 3 , it was my first lathe.. pretty robust little machines, not much to go wrong.looks like you got the milling attachment , always wanted one when i had the unimat .. Sold it to a school in canada at some point.

Not sure if this is what people wanted to see, or what I personally was hoping for.

Heyyy cool dude😛👍

I must confess I got a bit excited after seeing the poppies in the background and then seeing you struggle to cut open a bale.

Something this size might be perfect for my little work shop area.ill be very interested in your findings and any improvements. 🤞heres hoping. Cheers ta

There are such lathe for sale here in Switzerland from time o time. There a nice little machines. Waiting to watch how you will restaure yours :-)

These lathes were very popular once, and I wanted a Unimat SL badly back in the late seventies! But at age 16, I had to settle for a Taig/Peatol micro-lathe, which I still use to this day.

One of the ying/yang of the lathe are the round rods for axis. Yea you can get SS replacements from the metal supplier if needed. Just a thought.

I still have my Unimat 3 that I bought new so many years ago when it first came out. Great piece of equipment, but also well underpowered with that 1.1 amp motor.

Oh wild! We have one of those in our jewellery workshop. I stopped it down to clean it and unfortunately it seems it was dropped at some point as the main parallel bars and even the lead screw are bent slightly. It would have been used to add lines to wedding rings and/or trim their width

I bought one a few days ago, got it for £100, thanks to DHL smashing the parcel around they broke the motor bracket and the bottom pulley, the parts for these little gems are not cheap, My battle with DHL continues!

I have a Sherline lathe of about the same size - tapers are done by rotating the entire headstock. You can see the graduated scale on the bed, in front of the headstock. Not sure if that will work for you with the motor upgrade mounted on the base.

I’ll bear with you, I have Unimat 4, so maybe some insight will spin off for me. Good luck with the house move

A long time ago I had the successor Unimat 3 :-)

I'm guessing tappers would be done in a similar manner to the Sherline lathe, by turning the headstock.

To gain more height/swing (3/4") and to clear your motor housing Emco provided a head stock raising block (part #1311). This would also create space for a compound slide (#171190 for the unimat 3/4/PC that probably could be adapted). To raise the tailstock a 3/4" thick block (thicker to start with to accommodate for the 4 holes to drill/ream, then cut halfway those holes) would compensate for the higher headstock. Look here for an example: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/tail-stock-riser-for-unimat-lathe-db200-sl1000-6 Anyway, great project you've got there! I own and use it's bigger brother; the Emco Compact 5 and love it to bits!

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endlich wieder neues material! sehr geil. mittlerweile lad ich auch kram hoch :) wäre ne uni 3 nicht besser gewesen? :)

Dear have you moved to a new house and have you been able to setup a new wksp

Please provide information on the address of the Emco Unimat distributor in *Indonesia* .

I got a PDF of the manual of the SL, which I could send you - it is in German though.

Where approx are you located?

Is that a Emco?

Can you also talk about the price of the lathe?

So this is a used machine correct didn't catch it if you said it. I was hoping it was because it looked like it had a lot of surface rust.k😮

Hello. I like them have one it’s mint. Dr. Estate sale. Doesn’t look used. Has wooden box and some accessories with it. 500$ us. I think got good deal as I see them in this shape for 700$-1200$. That’s kinda high but where else will get one. U gonna like. That’s a nice plate and motor set up. Stay safe from ur ole hillbilly buddy.

What maney $

Looks like it will need a lot of spit and polishing. Well maybe not with spit though.🤣 New TGP round bar would probably be more than you paid for the lathe.

Seems like you've got some Room for Operations at least?

Hi, I just finished rebuilding a Unimat DB, I sent you an email with images, no reply ?

Lathe Tut.

Needs evaporust

That motor addition looks like an abomination to me!

C'est long... 😴

Very cool! This is going to be a great little project. I'm looking forward to seeing the bootstrapping :)