engineerd3d
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2017
First I would like to introduce myself. I work in IT as my day job. I have found your forum invaluble in my hobbies in the last few years and I figured I would join. I never had the room for any real machinery in the past and as such I have been mostly lurking and trying to learn from other peoples experiences here. I like to build all manner of gadgets and love working with my hands, it is my only therapy in life when everything else does not matter and only the task at hand has my full attention. Time with my tools is precious to me.
Enough yapping about me. What I really want to talk about is my Logan 825. It is I suppose a tool room lathe, or at least was at some point. From the limited knowledge I have about this lathe is that it was used by an older job shop for the US military during the Korean war. The second owner bought it from the original owner when he bought the building, it is now a furniture shop that restores antique furniture. Unfortunately the lathe was involved in a rather unfortunate roof leak that left it looking like it had been used as a boat anchor. It was posted on craigslist as for scrap/free metal. I contacted the owner and he removed the listing when I told him I would like to restore it and give it new life instead of scrapping it. Attached are some pictures of when I finally got it into my basement and started work cleaning it up. Pardon the bad pictures but neither lighting nor my excitement was cooperating in taking proper pictures. Mind you I am not restoring this lathe to be a show room queen that looks like it just came off the assembly line, I want to start using it and want to learn with it.
If interested I started doing blog entries on youtube concerning this lathe. Here is a link to that. Vlog 1 Lathe Project Logan 825 Lathe! - YouTube
Enough yapping about me. What I really want to talk about is my Logan 825. It is I suppose a tool room lathe, or at least was at some point. From the limited knowledge I have about this lathe is that it was used by an older job shop for the US military during the Korean war. The second owner bought it from the original owner when he bought the building, it is now a furniture shop that restores antique furniture. Unfortunately the lathe was involved in a rather unfortunate roof leak that left it looking like it had been used as a boat anchor. It was posted on craigslist as for scrap/free metal. I contacted the owner and he removed the listing when I told him I would like to restore it and give it new life instead of scrapping it. Attached are some pictures of when I finally got it into my basement and started work cleaning it up. Pardon the bad pictures but neither lighting nor my excitement was cooperating in taking proper pictures. Mind you I am not restoring this lathe to be a show room queen that looks like it just came off the assembly line, I want to start using it and want to learn with it.
If interested I started doing blog entries on youtube concerning this lathe. Here is a link to that. Vlog 1 Lathe Project Logan 825 Lathe! - YouTube