Show Us Your Lathe

[gt2ride]

Here is my latest lathe. A SB 10L with a single leaver on quick change.
The other lathes are on page 1 reply 11
This is no.11 in the collection

 

[Twmaster]

Wow. How did I miss this thread?? Folks, my hat is off to you all. A magnificent collection of lathes!

I'm in the un-enviable position of having a bunch of lathes and not a single one working right now.

I had one of those horrid little Harbor Fright 7x10 machines made by Sieg. I got so mad at the thing it is now a pile of parts and scrap metal. The parts are on their way to Canada...

I'm in the middle of resurrecting a Rivett #8 Precision and #608 lathe. This photo is the 1909 #8. I need to make a carriage gib and rig up a drive.

I also have a 1948 Craftsman #109.20630. This photo is as received

Here it is during the repainting stage of it's resurection

I'm waiting on some material to make a few parts then I hope to have it in service shortly.

I also have a 1945 Rivett #918 Turret lathe. This is the FeeBay photo posted by the vendor I bought it from.

Hoping to get around to repainting it this winter.

 

[cfellows]

Love those Rivett Lathes. If you'd like a place to store one of those for a year or two...

Chuck

 

[Twmaster]

Love those Rivett Lathes. If you'd like a place to store one of those for a year or two...

Yea. Riiiight....

 

[Deanofid]

The old #8 makes my mouth water, Mike. Hope you get her going soon.

Dean

 

[John Rudd]

Here's mine..It's a Chester 9*20, a typical clone of your Grizzly etc..
I've made a few changes as you do...

QCTP, added a VFD (Teco FM50 and a 220v 3ph motor)

I'm also in the throes of adding a tacho readout...more of a 'toit job :-\

 

[Twmaster]

Dean: I hope to spend some time this evening test fitting a borrowed gib from a 608. I need to make some fixtures to cut the 55 deg dovetail edges on the replacement parts.

 

[CMS]

Mid to late 70's SB heavy 10 and helper.

 

[Russel]

Wow! Lots of incredible lathes in this thread!

Here is my humble little Sherline lathe. Small, but it serves me well.

I bet most of you don't store you lathe on a shelf in the garage.

Russ

 

[Twmaster]

Russel--

They say good things come in small packages. In the case of the Sherline that is so very very true. Nice 'little' lathe sir!

 

[cfellows]

Would love to have a Sherline. But D*** they are expensive! So many lathes, so little time...

Chuck

 

[Mike N]

I just bought this Hardinge Tool Room Lathe at an auction sale on Thursday. I got it home, wired it up & everything works. These little lathes run as smooth as a Swiss watch. All it needs is a good clean-up & new gray paint job! This was the best deal I ever got on a machine tool! I will post the before & after picture when I get it painted.

 

[Deanofid]

Now, that's a model makers lathe!

Nice find, Mike.

 

[cfellows]

Mike, very nice purchase. Sure wouldn't mind having something like that.

Chuck

 

[Twmaster]

I just got back a little while ago with a nice old Atlas 618 I found on Craigslist.

Complete with motor drive/counter shaft, some tooling, two chucks, faceplate, original manual and the Atlas Lathe book.

With a little clean up I should -finally- have a functional lathe in my cave. Now I can actually make engines!

 

[user 1493]

There is a yahoo group devoted to Atlas-Craftsman lathes. The address is [email protected]. I used to have a 618 and got a lot of information from that site. Enjoy your new machine.

Jack

 

[Deanofid]

Another nice one with the 618, Mike!

Following Mike (twmaster), I'll do a "me too" and show my new/old 618 I've been putting together the past couple of weeks.

It's up and running, but needs spindle bearings, which are on the way from Clausing. Can't do any fine tuning or serious leveling until I get those into the head stock. Soon. The bearings are supposed to be here Wed!

This is an early model 618 badged as a Craftsman. Plain bearings and a 1"-8 spindle. It's pretty nice. After using small machines (Taig and Sherline) for so many years, it seems big. It weighs about as much as half a dozen Taig lathes.

I went from a 400 pound machine to Taig/Sherline size in one jump about 15 years ago. The new Atlas is about as big a machine that I can get into my little shop, and I'm kinda excited to start making chips with it.

Dean

 

[cfellows]

Those little Atlas 6" lathes are so nice. Back in the early 70's, I used to walk by a machine tool dealer who sold Atlas products on my way to work in Denver, Co. They had a nice, new 6" Atlas sitting on display in their window. I always had to stop for few minutes to admire it and wish desperately that I had the $279 that it sold for (nicely equipped).

Chuck

 

[Twmaster]

I've joined the Yahoo Group for the 618. It's surprising what some machine bring in today's money. The 618 had a selling price of $160 in the 1950's. $279 as you say in the 1970's. I paid $350 for this one on Saturday!

I'm just about half way through cleaning it up. I'm not going to repaint it (just yet) as I need to get a working lathe into my shop most riki-tik.

It has a few nicks in the ways up by the head stock but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. I need to take the lead screws and gibs out of the compound/CS as they are all kinda stiff. I'm sure a good cleaning and relube will do the trick.

 

[lathe nut]

Twmaster, mike, your going to love that lathe, I got one and its great, next one we get we need to send it to Chuck, I got mine from a fellow that said he had one that someone gave him and wanted to know it I wanted to buy it, like a stray dog followed him home, when he open that shop door and saw that little lathe, I started foaming at the mouth, I don't think he saw that, he said I would like one hundred for it, I said to much he then said that is a bucket of thing over here I guess all that goes with the lathe, all the change gears, four jaw chuck, steady rest and a lot of small tooling, I gladly gave him the hundred, now when I got home she was foaming at the mouth, might be the water ??? Lathe Nut