FunnyLumpkins
Plastic
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2019
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
Hey! Long time lurker, first time poster.
University was upgrading machines, so in turn I got a bit of an upgrade! It's always a mixed feeling when the university gets rid of great old iron, but new managers feel they have to have new stuff to stay on the cutting edge. It's painful to have to get rid of this stuff but luckily people like me pick it up and give it a good home.
It's a Cincinnati No 2LR, Serial Number 5J2U1W-26.
I've slightly gone cross eyed looking at manuals of ML and MI, and various other resources, but I have yet to see another listed LR. Mostly by lining up the shapes, it mostly looks similar to the late 50s style Universal, maybe an 2 ML.
It came with some wheel style cutters, but no arbor, no arbor support, etc. Everything that I could find (going through cabinets) seems to work in the brief amount of time I had it plugged in and tested.
There is a few weird things though. First, it seems to have a #40 taper, and the drawbar has two diameters on the tooling end, both threaded for both #30 and #40. I thought that was a neat trick actually, but I don't see how the #30 fits without a sleeve.
I have a feeling that someone used this and it was some sort of special accessory to make university instruments. I have this weird feeling too that it might be an oddball machine given that most of the other ML and MI have a 50 taper. If anyone has any info that would be very helpful. I'd love to dig around in the old lab more and look for additional parts, because I have a feeling they are somewhere it's just a matter of *finding* them.
Here's the link to the high res pictures: Cincinnati No 2LR - Album on Imgur
University was upgrading machines, so in turn I got a bit of an upgrade! It's always a mixed feeling when the university gets rid of great old iron, but new managers feel they have to have new stuff to stay on the cutting edge. It's painful to have to get rid of this stuff but luckily people like me pick it up and give it a good home.
It's a Cincinnati No 2LR, Serial Number 5J2U1W-26.
I've slightly gone cross eyed looking at manuals of ML and MI, and various other resources, but I have yet to see another listed LR. Mostly by lining up the shapes, it mostly looks similar to the late 50s style Universal, maybe an 2 ML.
It came with some wheel style cutters, but no arbor, no arbor support, etc. Everything that I could find (going through cabinets) seems to work in the brief amount of time I had it plugged in and tested.
There is a few weird things though. First, it seems to have a #40 taper, and the drawbar has two diameters on the tooling end, both threaded for both #30 and #40. I thought that was a neat trick actually, but I don't see how the #30 fits without a sleeve.
I have a feeling that someone used this and it was some sort of special accessory to make university instruments. I have this weird feeling too that it might be an oddball machine given that most of the other ML and MI have a 50 taper. If anyone has any info that would be very helpful. I'd love to dig around in the old lab more and look for additional parts, because I have a feeling they are somewhere it's just a matter of *finding* them.
Here's the link to the high res pictures: Cincinnati No 2LR - Album on Imgur