the tool post is missing.. Just the stud remains in the compound.
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Anyone know of a parts supplier or used market for this?
Cazeneuve. France. The OEM, still in business:
http://www.cazeneuve.fr/service-en
As with the HBX-360, it is a proprietary mount, and "most often" seen with a compact 4-Way on old, old HB / HBX, a Multifix QCTP on not QUITE so old to the present-day Optica models.
http://www.cazeneuve.fr/machines-en/optica-lathes
Should I put a generic one in its place? Thanks Much,
One can mount anything you want. Several folk already have.
Not hard. Not even all that tedious. Just "different" than the more common Tee-slot is all.
Given it has the
space for a Multifix as was OEM, that would be the best one for it. Even if budget means it has to be a clone, it will have a stiffer base than an Aloris/clone.
"Might" even fit the existing post? Some other Pilgrim's input needed on that. I'm a cheapskate, so prefer 4-Ways so as to not need a raft of toolholders.
Spindle mount is also proprietary. That part is harder. Or simply more expensive. Ladner.fr has the backplates as well as the Cazeneuve factory.
Cazeneuve's customer service / parts department has had good reviews, even very recently. Language is not a problem, nor shipping. Nothing is "cheap", modern-era, but the prices seen so far are reasonable. And the goods are AVAILABLE, which is not true of all Old Iron, Monarch one of the few other well-supported ones.
More news to the good side is that HBX lathes just MIGHT have the best and most detailed technical documentation available as any lathe ever built, anywhere, any era in history. And then.. several dedicated PM members have expanded on it as well.
Downside is it is all THERE, or tries to be, or needs the help of about 30 patents which are also very well done and online, but most of it isn't all that easy to UNDERSTAND, and that is a weirdness-in-a-good-way thing, not a language-poorly-translated thing atall! The translations are very good, actually.
You'd have to know two generations of genius-level engineers, Henri Bruet, elder and younger, then multiply that by the special flavour of one small corner of France as to the outlook on how to address a challenge.
It has long been a "French thing" to solve a problem without the boredom of doing it the same way anyone ELSE had already done! Or would ever DARE to do, in future!
Think Ettore Bugatti (transplanted Italian, actually, but that wasn't new..).
Or André-Gustave Citroën (Polish Jewish emigre, fruit merchant ancestry, literally "Lemon man", his G'Dad's era).
Or Le Rhône aircraft engines... or so some thinkle peeped they were!
What did DeGaulle allegedly say?
"How can anyone be expected to govern a nation with over 400 varieties of cheese?"
Welcome to THAT club, too!
Wine, women, cheese, bread, fine-dining, or machine-tools, not much of
anything French will ever be DULL!
Not-even the HBX lathes built by Nardini in Brazil, a Japanese captive partner in Japan, or a shorter-lived one in Spain.
Bill
HBX-360-BC, first-generation (cast base, not weldment)