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old lathe please help me!
- Thread starter absolut15
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donie
Diamond
- Joined
- May 17, 2003
- Location
- Walla Walla Wine and Wild Turkey
Florian, it appears to be a very old lathe for turning, facing and boring. It looks like it has no thread cutting ability.
I wouldnt think it could have much value.
I wouldnt think it could have much value.
yoyo
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2004
- Location
- netherlands
Perhaps you can do some metal spinning on it.
DaveKamp
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 3, 2004
- Location
- LeClaire, Ia
Hmmm...
Donie- I'm not so sure that it can't cut threads...
It has flat ways... and the hand-controls for carriage, crossfeed, and compound are plainly visible... it MAY have a leadscrew either in the back, or INSIDE the bed somewhere... or it could have been removed at one point. Note the two bolts on the headstock...
Definately interesting... doesn't look like any US-made machine I've ever seen. Obviously, being predominantly small, it was small-diameter turning, looks like it was set up to be a second-operation lathe.... or pattern-making.
I wouldn't consider it to be a fantastic tool for precision work, but it is certainly much more capable than the first lathe I ever had... so Florian- if it is your FIRST lathe, then put it to work, and learn how to use it... and as time goes by, you'll learn more about it, and more about lathes!
Donie- I'm not so sure that it can't cut threads...
It has flat ways... and the hand-controls for carriage, crossfeed, and compound are plainly visible... it MAY have a leadscrew either in the back, or INSIDE the bed somewhere... or it could have been removed at one point. Note the two bolts on the headstock...
Definately interesting... doesn't look like any US-made machine I've ever seen. Obviously, being predominantly small, it was small-diameter turning, looks like it was set up to be a second-operation lathe.... or pattern-making.
I wouldn't consider it to be a fantastic tool for precision work, but it is certainly much more capable than the first lathe I ever had... so Florian- if it is your FIRST lathe, then put it to work, and learn how to use it... and as time goes by, you'll learn more about it, and more about lathes!
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