CoolWeldStudiosInc.
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2005
- Location
- Metro NY, USA
Season's Greetings!
Folks the images attached show what we consider the oldest Stark lathe in existence. It is serial number 5. The head stock, bed, tail stock, bed and pedestal are of cast brass (somewhat crudely - blow holes at the tail stock end of the bed). There are traces of soft solder on the concave cradle of the pedestal for the bed. That was from wiping solder onto that surface and scraping in a good contact to the underside of the bed. The tip over rest is something we added but the hold down screw assembly for it is original. John Stark built the first examples personally. This lathe shows those features. The Oct. 19th. 1858 patent alludes to the spring collet also made in Waltham. One collet came with this lathe - it is 4.7mm with a long taper. Probably one of the oldest collets in existence as well.
Folks the images attached show what we consider the oldest Stark lathe in existence. It is serial number 5. The head stock, bed, tail stock, bed and pedestal are of cast brass (somewhat crudely - blow holes at the tail stock end of the bed). There are traces of soft solder on the concave cradle of the pedestal for the bed. That was from wiping solder onto that surface and scraping in a good contact to the underside of the bed. The tip over rest is something we added but the hold down screw assembly for it is original. John Stark built the first examples personally. This lathe shows those features. The Oct. 19th. 1858 patent alludes to the spring collet also made in Waltham. One collet came with this lathe - it is 4.7mm with a long taper. Probably one of the oldest collets in existence as well.