Michael Moore
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2004
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Yesterday I helped a friend get the wiring (3 phase from a convertor) sorted out and his new to him lathe running. Allegedly the lathe has always been used to cut wood to make judicial gavels, and he got a box of soft jaws and form tools with it. My guess it is a 1960s vintage but we don't know.
It came with a nice condition factory owner's manual and I scanned that, ran OCR and then dumped text into Google Translate and the PDF of the manual and the text file from Google are on my website if anyone is interested:
Index of /graphics/metalwork/HES_ACC_300
It has a variety of belts on it, all of which need to be replaced. The manual doesn't give any specifications on them. Are there ISO belts that would be needed on a French lathe or is he likely to be able to substitute an SAE belt that seems "close enough"?
The cross slide has a spot for a rear tool post but it only came with the front turret.
It has a Ladner 3 jaw that seems to have had better days. I found the manufacturer's site (ladner.fr) and he'll be checking to see if he can get some replacement jaws. I suspect he might save money by buying a modern replacement, though A1-4 mounting plates/chucks seem to not be very common. I'm going to encourage him to get a 4 jaw chuck.
It is an interesting and sturdy-looking smaller lathe, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of information on them, so he's lucky the manual came with it.
He plans to paint the lathe so I'll try and get a photo after that happens.
cheers,
Michael
It came with a nice condition factory owner's manual and I scanned that, ran OCR and then dumped text into Google Translate and the PDF of the manual and the text file from Google are on my website if anyone is interested:
Index of /graphics/metalwork/HES_ACC_300
It has a variety of belts on it, all of which need to be replaced. The manual doesn't give any specifications on them. Are there ISO belts that would be needed on a French lathe or is he likely to be able to substitute an SAE belt that seems "close enough"?
The cross slide has a spot for a rear tool post but it only came with the front turret.
It has a Ladner 3 jaw that seems to have had better days. I found the manufacturer's site (ladner.fr) and he'll be checking to see if he can get some replacement jaws. I suspect he might save money by buying a modern replacement, though A1-4 mounting plates/chucks seem to not be very common. I'm going to encourage him to get a 4 jaw chuck.
It is an interesting and sturdy-looking smaller lathe, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of information on them, so he's lucky the manual came with it.
He plans to paint the lathe so I'll try and get a photo after that happens.
cheers,
Michael