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the Turret lathe is a Bardons & Oliver #3 Turret Lathe comes with tailstock, live center 3 & 4 jaw chucks and a fair amount of tooling.
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This is the engine lathe. It is a Clausing. Sorry for the delay. Any help is apreciated.
"Bardons & Oliver #3 Turret Lathe comes with tailstock, live center"........ and there ya' go.
What is it that causes some folks to think that when you have a choice of 6 or eight sockets, instead of a single socket in a tailstock, that a live center can't be mounted? See it time after time....
Your pix of the turret lathe don't show the bed length but that center pedestal leads me to believe that the bed isn't real short.
If that Bardons and Oliver turret lathe has threading capability and a decent bed length, there would be little question in my mind,
unless it doesn't have a compound. That
might be a deal breaker for me as an only lathe. But with that big spacer under the tool post, it's cross slide seems to have enough space below the spindle center line to mount a compound if available/comes with it? There are used compounds that could be fairly easily fitted if not and
I'd go that way to get all the other pluses of that nice lathe.
Got the electrical service to feed it? Working on heavy equipment tells me that you don't suffer trama at the prospect of moving a real machine.
"....only want to be able to make pins, bushings, might turn a cylinder ram, and other projects around my shop" sounds like having a turret would be a plus, and the learning curve good fun!
If the turret worries you, disengage and lock the turret rotation 'til you are comfortable and pretend that it doesn't have a turret. That will leave you with a really solid tailstock that's easy to move. After all, it
looks like a lathe with 3 and 4 jaw chucks
plus a turret, not a huge dedicated, multi spindle Acme that the uninitiated must be told that it's a lathe
Bob