Another Help ID Small Lathe

Ed Hobbs · May 25, 2011

Anybody know who might have made the small lathe in the attached pictures? It is 24 inches long and as you can see has a unique tool holder. Also legs are fairly long.

Only thing I can find on it is the number 435 hand stamped on the front of the compound. It has a collet holder and face plate.

Will edit and post pictures next.

Came with some foot powered stuff and the previous owner did not have any background on it.

Ed Hobbs · May 25, 2011

Here are the pictures, I think.

Joe in NH · May 25, 2011

That guy has a little age on it. I first took the headstock pulley to be a v-belt. But now I see it was made for the round belting. That would put it at or before 1900 more or less.

Joe

rivett608 · May 25, 2011

The tool holder is of a type common on English lathes..... I'll have to look in my book on these little guys and see if it matches anything.

franco · May 26, 2011

Ed,

I suspect that the tool clamp is the wrong way round in the photos. As Rivet says this type of tool clamp is/was common on small English lathes, but the wider end should be on the tool, giving two contact points, and the screw is a levelling screw for the clamp to acommodate different tool dimensions. The photo shows the clamp on my old Brackenbury and Austin lathe. The tool or Armstrong toolholder is held under the two arms on the clamp. The screw is used to level the clamp on the tool or tool holder.

Frank

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