Cazeneuve HB575 at a UK dealer

Seeing as there's so much Cazeneuve chat here just now, thought I'd flag this UK HB575 currently for sale at a Birmingham (UK) dealer - with the starwheel tailstock.

Have no connection with the seller - it just popped up on a saved search. And I'm not in the market for a new lathe right now... So anyway, it's here:

Lathes - Used Manual Lathes - Cazeneuve - TB 808

Advert photo and screengrab of ad attached for posterity.

bikepete said:

Seeing as there's so much Cazeneuve chat here just now, thought I'd flag this UK HB575 currently for sale at a Birmingham (UK) dealer - with the starwheel tailstock.

Have no connection with the seller - it just popped up on a saved search. And I'm not in the market for a new lathe right now... So anyway, it's here:

Lathes - Used Manual Lathes - Cazeneuve - TB 808

Advert photo and screengrab of ad attached for posterity.

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Advert linked sez "swing over bed 10.5" diameter"

AFAIK, for the HB-575 that isn't swing...it is "centre height". "Swing over bed" is a tad over 20 inches. Even the smaller HBX-360 is a 14-plus incher. Just a RCH under 16" clear on my one.

See also Tony's lathes.co.uk website page on it:

Cazeneuve Lathes - Part 1

Yup I have a 22"faceplate for mine
Starwheel is nice
Nice addition of sliding chuck shield
Looks like an e stop on left end of headstock something I've considered
Foot brake or main power only way to shut down if things go bad
Red handles late 80's. ( Bill?)

mjk said:

Yup I have a 22"faceplate for mine
Starwheel is nice
Nice addition of sliding chuck shield
Looks like an e stop on left end of headstock something I've considered
Foot brake or main power only way to shut down if things go bad
Red handles late 80's. ( Bill?)

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My "CRACKED red handles" HBX-360-BC seems to be 1970's, and maybe "early" even so. Cast, not weldment base. Made in France, S/N on the bed "350 / V4".

NEW spinners will be Nickel-Aluminium Bronze. Already laid-in. Looks like Gold. Won't crack.

It's even a "biocide", so lessens risk of infections from sharpish chip splinters and shagnasty coolant.

"Round Tuit" thing as to "when".

Higher-priority at the moment is trying to get EITHER of Cazeneuve, emailed directly, and/or/ELSE ladner.fr to quote me some backplates so I have more for it actually MOUNTED than a Rubberflex.

so when were the chrome spinners used?
Now I'm curious what year mine was made and how to interpret stamped number

mjk said:

so when were the chrome spinners used?
Now I'm curious what year mine was made and how to interpret stamped number

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Aluminium, not chrome. AFAIK, anyway.

Doesn't crack, but also shouts "cheap ASS!" almost as loudly as plastic!



Cazeneuve can probably tell you when they made a given S/N.

Many of the parts are still common, HBX-360 to "Optica" and HB-5XX to "Optimax".

Neat factory-made video on the "Optica" on you tube.

Make your tongue hard what that hybrid manual/CNC "teach in" lathe family (Siemens controls..) can do without need of a separate CAD/CAM computer to feed it.