Green machinist
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2018
I just put $500 down on a lightly used 13" X 5' SB. It has a complete taper attachment, a saddle micrometer stop, a single tumbler quick change gear box, tail stock, quick change tool post with 4 tool holders and the original 1hp motor. To agree to the deal at $1000 I told him I wanted a Troyke U9 rotary table and an alarm device Mfg Co. Ademco alarm bell 12V I saw on his shelf, he agreed. Its all located in an unheated garage at the back of his yard. He's owned it a few years but due to health issues he wants to sell it. It does have some surface rust on the chuck and pulleys. I got it to come clean with some steel wool I brought with me. I didn't take enouph pictures while I was there.. no idea why. was busy looking at the condition of the gears and saddle I guess. I CAN NOT catch a fingernail on the ways. He did not have any lathe wrenches and the tailstock was tight so I couldn't see the serial numbers. I looked for flaking on the ways near or poking out from under the head stock and I didn't see any.
Being it's a single tumbler unit that leads me to believe its a 40's unit.
Winter in SE Michigan has been a bit wet this winter and he said I need to wait until his yard dry's or freezes before we go driving on the yard. I told him id put plywood down and use a pallet jack to get it to the front yard but he said he'd rather not get the lathe stuck in the yard either.
Now the question.
Is it possible to have flame hardened ways?
I ask because I saw a tag on the bed under the tailstock but it had been painted over.
From my little research I only see this rectangle tag in this location on units with flame hardened ways.
I went into this deal with the notion that they did not flame harden beds till the 50s and I thought the single tumbler was a 40s identifier. So if it is this would be a huge bonus.
How do I get off paint without destroying the tag?
Being it's a single tumbler unit that leads me to believe its a 40's unit.
Winter in SE Michigan has been a bit wet this winter and he said I need to wait until his yard dry's or freezes before we go driving on the yard. I told him id put plywood down and use a pallet jack to get it to the front yard but he said he'd rather not get the lathe stuck in the yard either.
Now the question.
Is it possible to have flame hardened ways?
I ask because I saw a tag on the bed under the tailstock but it had been painted over.
From my little research I only see this rectangle tag in this location on units with flame hardened ways.
I went into this deal with the notion that they did not flame harden beds till the 50s and I thought the single tumbler was a 40s identifier. So if it is this would be a huge bonus.
How do I get off paint without destroying the tag?
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