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Good point. I looked all over that machine for a model/serial number and couldn’t find squat. It’s located a good distance from me so won’t have a chance to get #’s. It’s a belt drive with, what I believe to be, a 5 hp motor.
Went and picked it up today. Was able to bribe the neighboring business to borrow a forklift. A couple guys had to get on the back to add more counterweight though. Everything went well until I ran into a severe thunderstorm on the way home. Got it a little wet but not too concerned because it's covered in about 40 years of oil and grease. I'll throw up some photos when I get a chance to mess around with it. Also, wish there was some sort of a manual to help figure out all the levers. Thanks for all the help/advice! Very much appreciated.
Andy
Also, wish there was some sort of a manual to help figure out all the levers.
Jr. HS shop had SB's "HTRAL", tail-end of the 1950's. @las M6 6" X 18" had a parts catalog.
Next manual I laid eyeball one was for the 1942 10EE. Parts book, mostly. Then the 1970's Cazeneuve HBX-360-BC. Installation, repair, and parts, mostly. Good manual, actually.
"HTRAL" is the only one as told yah what you could DO with a lathe. Got more - in me old age. Got the money to buy books now. We didn't so much, back then.
In between? Well there's a parallel universe...We trained Lootenents to never, EVER tell a Sergeant HOW to do anything.... unless you planned to spend every MINUTE of yer SHORTENED life, thereafter telling ALL Sergeants how to do EVERYTHING. I did say "shortened?"
Our foremen took the same view of card-carrying Union Machinists.
Told us which machine was "our mount", that shift. Handed us a blueprint and a punch-card to draw job-specific tooling against over to the toolcrib.
If you were far-enough along to even get hired-on? And still couldn't sort the levers first-sight of an unfamilar machine-tool just by walking up to it, hand turning a few things experimentally - running power traverse and/or any "rapids" in empty air where data plates were gone? Getting the job DONE?
You failed "probation". Some other guy could soon be hired-on as could do.
Shop had over a dozen lathes alone. No two alike. Nuthin' special. Just the way it was.
You either understood machinery. Or weren't even safe to trust under-roof not to get other folks bad-hurt.
The lathe you have is dirt-simple.
USE of it without reducing your corpse's body-mass, can be studied-up-on as "general information" ... applicable to ALL lathes in particular, and machine-tools, in general.
The rest? Sits right there under your hot hands as a full-scale "3D" working model"!
How hard can that be?
The "use of" lore is not "maker specific", and was never.
The tasking, alloy, workholding, tooling, and power available set those parameters.
Your job is to set up and operate any available lathe to actually deliver what the job needs done.
Same as they tell a PILOT IN COMMAND - no accident, that title - about the airplane under his ass.
It makes a marvelous servant. And a damned poor master.
IOW.. you shall have to do ALL the "heavy thinking" for that lathe. It can do NONE!
Just indifferently try to maim of even kill you.. ever you forget that.
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