Treadle Lathe on eBay

[rake60]

If your an antique collector here's a FIND!

Britannia Self-Acting & Screw-Cutting Treadle Lathe

They even have a video of it at work on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwzU...mZ180172408751QQihZ008QQcategoryZ97230QQrdZ1Q

Rick

 

[Bogstandard]

Rick,

Using that must be like trying to rub your stomach and pat your head at the same time.

But a wonderful piece of kit.

John

 

[rake60]

30 years ago I was given the chance to run one, or try to. :-\

The owner of the first machine shop I ever worked for had one in the
corner of his office. He let me give it a go.
Then he spent the rest of the day wiping the finger prints off of it.

Rick

 

[chuck foster]

holy goodnight
what a lathe, i thought my first lathe was old.............faye scott made in new york (i think) in about 1880, but it used a flat belt powered by an overhead line shaft.

chuck