William m. Black machine shop - odd old lathe

jlegge · Jul 7, 2019

Visited Dubuque, IA yesterday and found the old Corps of Engineer's sucking dredge the William M. Black, which was in service from 1934 to 1973.

This machine shop had an interesting Rahn Larmon Lathe, Steptoe shaper and Western radial drill.

Milland · Jul 7, 2019

Maybe the extended cross slide is to allow more utility if using the lathe as a mill?

johnoder · Jul 7, 2019

RL is sliding bed extension gap. I think NEBEL bought these folks out

Thumbnails are one waiting to go to scrap near Pensacola years ago

johnoder · Jul 7, 2019

And some old catalog scans. Get a load of the FINEST FEED of .026" in the second thumbnail

ncjeeper · Jul 7, 2019

Thats cool.

northernsinger · Jul 7, 2019

I've owned a Rahn-Larmon lathe since 1985, bought it from my family's iron works, for $100, they'd owned it for quite awhile before that, it is listed in a 1952 appraisal.

johnoder · Jul 8, 2019

I'll try scanning the motor drive page and edit it in here later today. I would imagine the lathe in WMB is a bit "newer" than my catalog

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