Price drop. 350.00
Thanks JB
We have a deal!
PayPal or a dead-tree check and I wait 'til it clears. Only about two thousand years overdue on my commitments already, so no big rush.
My "host" a first-gen Cast Iron-not-weldment bottom Cazeneuve HBX-360-BC as left the factory with wotever Caze used on the rear tracer slide. See Tony's Cazeneuve pages for the OEM tracer:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/cazeneuve360/img7.jpg
I still have the pump and reservoir in the base, have pitched the rotted lines. Nothing at all came with it up-top but the mounting ring, "away end" of the top slide, compound at "near end".
The Mimik maker's data for the UT-2 sez up to 14", which is wot a "360" is:
MIMIK UT series for engine lathes & grinders
..and they still make it and parts for it.
With that as fall-back, even if $$$, I think I can find a way to make this work. TP must be fabbed anyway, so height is not a show-stopper. Given the HBX has tee-slots down the whole length of the vertical aft side of its bed to mount "stuff", and the overhead support to carry the hydraulic lines on an arm or slide & rollers, mounting templates and running new juice lines should not be rocket surgery, either.
IOW - this "should be" more easily "do able" than on a(ny) lathe that did not ALREADY HAVE at least provision for "some form of" hydraulic tracer built into it.
As to "utility"?
That 50 mm on the radius is 100 mm (max, only if straight-in) on the diameter. Half that is more than enough, lots and lots of stuff.
It should at least serve as a taper attachment, which I do not have, either. Thanks, gbent!
art.h? You'd have to know the HBX-360-BC's weird but awesome way of doing threads, 'coz THAT part is hard for
any other manual lathe to match.
PM/email coming, would like more photos, "top view", other details, but only if you already have them handy.
Take my own when it gets
here otherwise..
Bill
