Bru
Plastic
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2010
- Location
- Illinois USA
On a recent visit to a nearby junkyard shopping for angle iron, I found a badly damaged Carroll Jamieson lathe. I made a couple of additional trips to pull off what parts I could, since the lathe was not salvageable as a whole, and it was headed for the pile to be chopped up and recycled in the lowest form. Odds of my ever needing or using mony of these parts are pretty low, but I hated to see them melted to make Pacific Rim disposable tools.
This lathe (and I will attempt to attach a pic or two) carried a nameplate reading:
A.V. CARROLL, U.S.PATENT
No. 975748, Nov.15, 1910
SERIAL NO. 486
The gearchange plate was so beaten up that all that remains legible is: "Carroll Jamieson"
The motor, motor mount, and upper drive pulley set were long gone. I have the chuck, and plan to keep that. The quick change gears (11 of them) are spoken for. I do still have, with mostly bent or broken or missing handles and some bolts missing, the following:
Cross-slide assembly
Apron assembly
Spindle with 3-pulley drive and some gears ( I am still struggling to remove the chuck backplate, which I intend to keep)
Lead screw, which is about 8' long
The tailstock body and whatever parts are frozen inside
There was enough greasy sludge on most of the machine to protect parts not directly exposed to snow and rain, or where water seepage was blocked. I did have to scrape a good bit of rust off the innards of the chuck before reassembling it.
If any one needs any of these parts, please PM me. They are all too heavy for me to try to crate and ship, but I can find some corner in which to hold for pickup for a while.
I am in southern Illinois, about 40 miles south of the intersection of I-57 and I-64, approx 100 miles East of St Louis, Mo, 80 miles North of Paducah, KY, or 90 miles West of Evansville, IN; 300+ miles south of Chicago.
This lathe (and I will attempt to attach a pic or two) carried a nameplate reading:
A.V. CARROLL, U.S.PATENT
No. 975748, Nov.15, 1910
SERIAL NO. 486
The gearchange plate was so beaten up that all that remains legible is: "Carroll Jamieson"
The motor, motor mount, and upper drive pulley set were long gone. I have the chuck, and plan to keep that. The quick change gears (11 of them) are spoken for. I do still have, with mostly bent or broken or missing handles and some bolts missing, the following:
Cross-slide assembly
Apron assembly
Spindle with 3-pulley drive and some gears ( I am still struggling to remove the chuck backplate, which I intend to keep)
Lead screw, which is about 8' long
The tailstock body and whatever parts are frozen inside
There was enough greasy sludge on most of the machine to protect parts not directly exposed to snow and rain, or where water seepage was blocked. I did have to scrape a good bit of rust off the innards of the chuck before reassembling it.
If any one needs any of these parts, please PM me. They are all too heavy for me to try to crate and ship, but I can find some corner in which to hold for pickup for a while.
I am in southern Illinois, about 40 miles south of the intersection of I-57 and I-64, approx 100 miles East of St Louis, Mo, 80 miles North of Paducah, KY, or 90 miles West of Evansville, IN; 300+ miles south of Chicago.
