RCPDesigns
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2014
- Location
- Atlanta GA.
I went to look at a Cincinnati Tool Grinder/Cutter this weekend along with a lot of other miscellaneous machine tools/tooling/etc. They had this Cataract Bench lathe advertised but said there was no cross slide. While I was there picking through things (and after decided not to get the tool grinder) the son mentioned that the father said the cross slide was "in the area". I spent another hour looking around and managed to find some sort of contraption that at least fit the bed. It has some aspects of a cross slide and some turret like aspects as well. I found two other pieces in the same box. I don't really need the lathe but it looked lonely and promised it wouldn't take up much room in my shop. The boxes near the lathe parts were full of shiny 1" and 1.25" bar stock in old cardboard sleeves that said "PRECISE" on them. I'm not sure what kinda of metal they are but I got them along with a lot of various hold downs, lathe dogs, etc.
I plan to restore the lathe at some point. It looks like the lathe was setup for a few specific operations and I hope that what I have can be modified such that it would return to more general purpose operation. I'd love to hear more about what has followed me home!!
I plan to restore the lathe at some point. It looks like the lathe was setup for a few specific operations and I hope that what I have can be modified such that it would return to more general purpose operation. I'd love to hear more about what has followed me home!!