Bret Rochotte
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2008
- Location
- New Bremen, Ohio
I've been cleaning up this lathe I bought from 47Nomad, a Charles A. Mann with rise and fall cross slide, made in Providence Rhode Island between 1885 and 1905. Overall the lathe is in pretty good shape but does have wear on the bed and scoring on the spindle journals. One tooth has been repaired very nicely on the back gear pinion, the cross slide screw is decent but the cast iron nut could stand replacement. The screw is 1/2" dia. 8 pitch left hand square thread. As Tony at lathes.co.uk says this lathe is "utterly conventional design" with a rise and fall cross slide. Everything came apart easily except the right hand pivot screw for the rise and fall. I think there is swarf jammed in the threads and I did not want to push it too hard as it was not necessary to remove it all the way. The lathe was originally black, I found black paint under the dealer's tag and under the grime on the headstock was no green paint. It looked pretty bad when I cleaned it up so I repainted the headstock black but decided to leave the rest of it green for now. I kind of like the shade, and the contrasting colors may grow on me also. All the change gears are black. I think the tapers are Jarno 5 but have not verified that yet.
An interesting item was included with the lathe, it looks like a craftsman made or previous owner (Chas. Y. Miller) made a compound slide that fits over the lantern tool post for advancing the cut when threading. Included are some pictures that show how it is constructed. The screw is 20 pitch left hand thread and the dial has 25 graduations, so each mark advances the tool .002. If anyone is interested I will post more pictures.
Bret
An interesting item was included with the lathe, it looks like a craftsman made or previous owner (Chas. Y. Miller) made a compound slide that fits over the lantern tool post for advancing the cut when threading. Included are some pictures that show how it is constructed. The screw is 20 pitch left hand thread and the dial has 25 graduations, so each mark advances the tool .002. If anyone is interested I will post more pictures.
Bret
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