Show Us Your Lathe

[lazylathe]

WOW!! I love the Super Adept! It is really cool!

How many lathes do you have now?
You can open a lathe museum and charge entrance!!! :big:
Great collection by the way!!

Andrew

I have added 4 more lathes to my collection. The rest are located on page one post #11

Myford

Super Adept

Unimate SL DB200

Haighton Cadet

 

[gt2ride]

Andrew

I have 16 lathes, I forgot to take a pic of the last one
It is a Pannent lathe. Will try to get a pic so I can post it

Leon

 

[agmachado]

Hello Guys,

Is with great pride that I publishes pictures of my first lathe!

It arrived here in São Paulo today. I assembled and tested... ready for use!

Now I need of a table for it. The table that I have reverberates the noise... Maybe a solid and heavy table will help!

Here... I talking with we friend Andrew (lazylathe) by MSN...

Take care,

Alexandre

 

[steamer]

HI Alexandre,

Congratulations Friend!

A lathe bench can never be too heavy. A heavy table with a "butcher block top" would be ideal.

Two layers of 19mm plywood would be just fine also.

Dave

 

[NickG]

or just bolt it down where it is! :big:

 

[Deanofid]

Alexandre, that's a very nice lathe! I had that model for years. Did a lot of work with it.
Congratulations!

 

[steamer]

or just bolt it down where it is! :big:

SWMBO will need to be consulted on this! :big:

Alexandre, SWMBO is a secret code understood by all lathe owners ( its a cult really!) Now that your one, you need to be let in on it

It means She WHo Must Be Obeyed!....start drilling holes in that table and you can show us the scars after they heal! :big:

Dave

 

[MikeA]

Hello Alexandre,

Congratulations on your new lathe! They have an excellent reputation and much very fine work has been done on them.

Definitely get a solid table to use with the lathe, as said previously, the heavier the better.

Insofar as SWMBO - no problem! Just take her out for several caipirinha Ypioca or 61 and some churrascaria and she'll forgive your covering the floor with sharp metal shards!

Best,
Mike

 

[starlight_tools]

Here are the lathes that I have had over the years

The Craftsman 109 was my first metal lathe, I built the stand and installed a 2 speed motor on it. Worked well but out grew it quite quickly.

My mentor found me the Logan 9B28-61 from a colleage that had closed his shop due to medical reasons and I ran that lathe for many years. It did most of what I wanted, but every so often I just needed that extra inch or so.

I recently sold the Logan and picked up the Gosan 1440V 3 Hp VFD Drive made in Taiwan by Gosan Machine works also know as Shye Sheng. This is the factory that makes the new Colchester and Sharpe Lathes. Really nice lathe, came with factory installed 2 Axis Accurite DRO, Taper Attacment and most of the options. I have it mounted on FootMaster Castors so when I need to roll it away from the wall I can, but i can quickly level it for accurate use.

Walter

 

[starlight_tools]

This is another view of the lathe and the cluttered shop

Walter

 

[deadin]

Good Grief.... This has turned into a long thread................

Anyway, I may have a chance at an old (late 1930's early 1940's) South Bend B9W.
It looks well used but seemed to still to be tight and mostly there. Don't know if all of the change gears are there.
It's going to take a lot of cleaning and looks like a fun project. (If I can find room for it.)

What should I be looking for and any idea how much should I have to pay???
(I did find a similar one on Ebay for $800, but it looked in much better condition.)

 

[mcruff]

My 1943 (War production) B model South Bend 9" x 36" . I converted it about 3 years ago to an A model.

 

[IronHorse]

Nice Lathe, love the old stuff!


IronHorse

 

[lathe nut]

I like dat a lot me, Lathe Nut

 

[rake60]

mcruff

That is NICE!


Rick

 

[Sparticusrye]

Here is my little lathe. Craftex 10X18, Model B2227L. I have the 3 & 4 Jaw chucks for it and a faceplate. I've done several parts on it and so far I'm happy with it. I'll be making a chip tray for it as soon as I find some time as it makes a pretty nice mess of the space behind it. You can see the old non-sparking persuader on the tool board behind it. Was a project I made in one of my early courses at work. The last course I took was a Naval machinist course, used to be called machinist specialist, and the final project is the drill press.

 

[slkride]

Nice find hope you get as much use(fun) as I have from mine SB 9A 1946 model, Dad bought it new in 46 was a real trick back then War years ya know. Just put a freq drive on it,best move I made other than DRO I added a couple years ago.


Tom

 

[Florian]

On page 25 of this thread, i was showing some pictures of the restoration of my lathe.

Now i have completed all the (little) jobs that still needed to be done and the result is:

Here you can see the guideqay guards; they are very useful because the chips will not fall on the guides and stick on the oil..:

And this is a picture of the first test on my (almost) new machine:

Oh and the lathe is a Schaublin 102 VM, a Swiss precision toolroom-lathe (as it is called in the manual ;D )

Florian

 

[ttrikalin]

Ah, this is a beauty, Florian.
Any pictures before the restoration?

take care

tom in MA

 

[Florian]

Yes, there is a picture on page 25 (as mentioned in my post just before, the two words "page 25" are a link to page 25... )