Yes it was. I typically don't like to boast about prices. but $50 was a steal.

When I firsat became a machinist I learned on a PW and it was a nice machine for sure. When we lost our shop as they started to farm everything out I tried to buy the machine and the company I worked for would not sell it so I am not sure what happened to it. But they were always great machines. Great topic.

Cory

I have a 16x54 C and copies of the manuals. I believe these machines didn't hit production until the 50's.

Replaced Model B in late thirties. Actually, first Model C serials on the 16" are from 1935.

John Oder

It's a Star Turn 8-15 NC universal turning center. 8 tool postions, 15hp. !0" hyd. chuck, 54" c-c, 10.5" over crosslide, 20" over (replacable hard) ways. Cost new (in '75)~ $74,000, with the options. 2 spd. motor,and 4 automatic gear changes. I am currently retrofitting the AB7100 controller to an EMC2 PC based system.I got this from George Washington Machinery 3 yrs. ago & it has turned out to be a great deal. It came with enough new chuck jaws to pay for the machine! I had another P&W lathe 30 yrs. ago,it was a Potter & Johnston
(built by P&W) automatic chucker. That was what sold me on the brand, an excellent machine. Eric in AZ

You didn't specify age....does this P&W qualify??

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Hep, that baby won the war....................of 1812!! Nice photo!!

I've got a 12X30 Model C (no pics sorry). It's the best small shop lathe I've seen.

What's with the 12" model number and a lathe that swings 14-15"? You'd think they would have over stated the rating, not under. Oh well, I really like mine and wouldn't sell it for a lot of the tea in China!

Ray

Lodge & Shipley was on this bandwagon of catalog sizing less swing than actual starting in the teens.

The others had to follow suit or look wimpy.

John Oder

Hi and I'm new to this forum and find it very informative. My question stems from the recent purchase of a Pratt & Whitney Model B (13" M-1395) engine lathe with production date of July 1925. It came with some extra chucks (plain back), steady/follower rests, spindle turret, and taper attachment - the head stock spindle dimensions are vexing me. The spindle has and O.D. of 2.90 and about 3.5 threads per inch. It is also tapered at the leading end.

Does it have a standard designation (LOO or the like)?

Are mounting plates still available for it?

Any insight would be of great help - Thanks, Jeff

My Father-in-Law had a lathe that did not have a name on it, but he thought was an old P&W or Rockwell.

Distinguishing features were as follows:

- lead screw went up the center of the lathe, under the bed
- drive to the headstock spindle was by means of a worm gear, on a shaft that went out the back of the head stock
- change gears on front of headstock
- did not have a compound rest: its lantern tool holder was on a second slide on top of the main slide ... there was no provision for a feed screw
- the Tailstock traveled on a slide on the *back face* of the bead
- Tail stock spindle taper was about the size of an MT2, but longer
- alignment of headstock to tail stock by means of locking screws on headstock



Thoughts on its origin suggested the odd saddle arrangement was that the tool post slide would be controlled by another mechanism, say for copying to a pattern.

A very unusual lathe indeed. Does anyone have any ideas on what it really is?

If its not a P&W, I will move this to a thread of its own.

.. Gregg