Doozer
Titanium
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2001
- Location
- Buffalo NY
At a recent auction I bought a facing head, hoping to fit it to my G&L 25T. It was an online auction, and the head was on a pallet with some lathe faceplates. I could not tell the size, but it looked like a smaller head, not those 36" ones you see on Ebay all the time. Well I was the successful bidder and I picked it up. Left the faceplates.
It turns out to be 20" in diameter, and about 5" thick. I need to weigh it, but it seems about 150+ pounds. The center hole is 4" and the bar holder takes a 2" bar. It mounts to the machine with 4 bolts on a 5.5" spacing, 16mm size bolts. It has a short taper, like a lathe chuck, maybe an A-8 or A-10 size. My rough tape measure reads it at 7".
There are 2 gears on the back where it attaches to the machine. I think that means the machine had a handwheel to adjust the offset and powerfeed the facing. The gear that moves the slide mechanism is about 12" dia and it seems to be 10 pitch and 14.5 pressure angle. The gear that is coupled to the housing is I believe 8 pitch, and 12.5" dia. There is a ruler scale on the front face to rough read the offset, and it is in inches.
There is no name on it, but there is some numbers and letters stamped. Need to post pics. It looks like they had a mixed bunch of number stamps, as the characters are of different size. My guess is this thing is Polish or Chech or some place like that. Looking to make an adapter to mount it to my G&L 25T. Is this a good idea??? Can anyone identify the maker of this head??
Thank you --
--Doozer