Lodge12345
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- Sep 18, 2018
Try to date a Lodge and Shipley 14" lathe, also trying to figure out what kind of oil it takes
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Lodge and Shipley 14" Lathe
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enginebill
Stainless
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- Feb 17, 2005
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- Plymouth Meeting PA
It was built between 1892 and 1987. I use 10W oil in mine.
johnoder
Diamond
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- Jul 16, 2004
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- Houston, TX USA
Its a Model A, Manual says the equivalent of ISO 46 circulating oil. If it were mine I would have Mobil DTE Medium in it
Serial (five digits) will be right end in between two REAR vee ways stamped into machined cast iron - with that it can be dated
Here is manual from VM - you can tell by the Monarch name and safety "boiler plate" pages that it is fairly recent, so maybe not exact
http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/2104/15228.pdf
Lodge12345
Plastic
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- Sep 18, 2018
Found serial number. It is 31237, what year would this be?
johnoder
Diamond
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- Jul 16, 2004
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- Houston, TX USA
1938 there.
You could still get plain spindle bearings at that time - L&S had sworn by them since 1892
Thumbnails are scans from a few years before that
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Lodge12345
Plastic
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Thanks for everything. I found a oiling diagram in the manual. Do you use the same oil throughout the lathe, for the headstock, for pulleys, bearings, gears, etc.
johnoder
Diamond
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- Jul 16, 2004
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- Houston, TX USA
If it were mine:
DTE Medium in head stock
DTE Heavy Medium all other bearings or places to oil
Vactra #3 on ways and slides and in apron
Apron at one time could oil ways and cross slide - maybe by you pumping or maybe automatic.
Such systems are almost always plugged by now
If you do not want to disassemble entire carriage and apron and FIX the various issues YOU will have to MANUALLY oil ways and slides - and this includes FREQUENT attention to cross slide ways on the back-of-lathe area - often out-of-sight under a cover.
Its 80 years old, probably needs some help
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