Restored Mulliner-Enlund lathe

This is a Mulliner -Enlund 14" x 6' engine lathe. We restored and completely tooled it (follow, steady rests, head tail carriage tooling). The first image shows it in as found condition before rescue in the woods of Pennsylvania under a shed overhang. We estimate it's outdoor "lawn furniture service" at between 20 and 30 years. The lathe has a "B" prefix before the serial number. The lathe has some interesting features resulting in a belief the this was a "B" grade machine produced buy this company. It is a late production machine dating to 1924. The castings are NOT cast iron but semi-steel. Heavier and harder with a tough skin. EVERY casting without exception has heavy porosity. As well the head stock spindle has a bore form the back end to the nose out of center line buy 1/8" (we found this out when tying to fit a draw bar for collets to it). Apparently this was a "clean up" to use up any left over castings and parts to manufacture the last lathes. Hence, not a tool room unit. The down fall of the super heavy head stock design was the bowl shape. That dedicated the lathe to over head drive works only. We use horizontal drive systems that we fabricate. Therefore we had to drill perforated a "window" in the rear bowl section to give access to the belt coming out horizontally to our drive unit. That took 2 weeks of labor with some sections of the window being close to 3" thick. This machine appears to be built under a Hendey license. The pattern is of a Hendey 12" but raised in the castings to 14". Some parts interchange some not. The apron uses cone clutches on straight gearing, not Hendey's double and triple start worm wheels. The carriage feed trip rod operates only towards the headstock. A solid very powerful lathe.

Nice restoration!