1951 NACA 20-inch compressor in lathe - photo

NACA 20-inch compressor in lathe. 1951. Full caption: "20 INCH COMPRESSOR SETUP IN AMERICAN LATHE IN THE MACHINE SHOP".

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...024#post176118
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...995#post176002
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...924#post175645
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...861#post175368
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...015#post164552

I think that compound slide is bigger than my lathe ...

[QUOTE=Jon;176359]NACA 20-inch compressor in lathe. 1951. Full caption: "20 INCH COMPRESSOR SETUP IN AMERICAN LATHE IN THE MACHINE SHOP".

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I chuckle in amusement and rampant satisfaction; not Axelson, Lodge & Shipley, Cincinnati, Leimann, Heyligenstaedt, Niles Belmont-Pond, LeBlond, HES, MESTA, Dean Smith & Grace, Clausing, even Monarch...

Note the interesting steady rest too.

[QUOTE=Toolmaker51;197305]

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Originally Posted by Jon

NACA 20-inch compressor in lathe. 1951. Full caption: "20 INCH COMPRESSOR SETUP IN AMERICAN LATHE IN THE MACHINE SHOP".

Fullsize image: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...e_fullsize.jpg

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...r_in_lathe.jpg
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I chuckle in amusement and rampant satisfaction; not Axelson, Lodge & Shipley, Cincinnati, Leimann, Heyligenstaedt, Niles Belmont-Pond, LeBlond, HES, MESTA, Dean Smith & Grace, Clausing, even Monarch...

Note the interesting steady rest too.

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You should recognize that lathe, Add in the 10" factory risers. Where have you seen its bigger brother?

Surely you jest, lol. That tarp is no disguise!
Speaking of TX, I'll call tomorrow; or text tonight.