new hobby lathe pencil sharpener

[Frank S]

Well the stuff is loaded and will be headed for Tx later this evening.

[metric_taper]

Frank, from looking at the photo, it appears (at least to me) that the head stock and tail stock have a spacer added to raise them up. It may be some optical trickery I'm seeing. If this is the case, I wonder if this was a factory modification.

[Frank S]

Frank, from looking at the photo, it appears (at least to me) that the head stock and tail stock have a spacer added to raise them up. It may be some optical trickery I'm seeing. If this is the case, I wonder if this was a factory modification.

Yes there is a riser under the head stock and the tail stock This would actually give it 48" swing between the chuck and the carriage but 36 over the carriage.

[Radioman]

Yes there is a riser under the head stock and the tail stock This would actually give it 48" swing between the chuck and the carriage but 36 over the carriage.

Looks like someone needed a little more swing
somewhere over the decades.

[Frank S]

Looks like someone needed a little more swing
somewhere over the decades.

Pretty sure it was factory raised this was fairly common to allow for larger swing over the carriage. Years ago I had a Clausing lathe that had been raised and the top of the cross slide had been milled or gouged out by a tool in the chuck. pretty sure the hollowed out spot was not factory

[Frank S]

Well we got everything unloaded
it was all my backhoe wanted but the old gal did the job.
I was genuinely amazed at the good condition all of the machines are. All were still under power in the shop but had so much debris piled against and on top of them that when I first saw them I couldn't get close enough to them to check them out. the Cincinnati horizontal mill has the T50 taper as to be expected but it also has a rt angle attachment head bolted to the table I didn't see that when I saw the mill the first time this means I can do vertical milling as well as horizontal boring the table is 12 x54 this one in infinite variable speed spindle my old one as I remember it, was transmission selected gearing but it has been a long time since it has been gone.
the 6 head drill press in variable speed as well
the little Sheldon lathe looks like a brand new 70 year old machine it is in such good condition. 6 1/2" awing over the cross slide and 36" between centers can swing 13" at the chuck
the Big American Tool co. lathe has 36" cast into the power head and with the riser blocks can swing 54" at the chuck I couldn't find and wear or damage to the ways either.
the Tig machine is a 525 amp machine complete with water cooler foot peddle and torch. Not sure what I'm going to do with it as what I really needed was a little 250 amp machine or even a 180amp for the tig welding that I might ever do.

[wadebrooks]

What is the make of this lathe? I have a 20" that looks like this that is made by Cincinnati Lathe & Tool Co. The handles and gear change box are identical and the paint color looks the same.

[Crusty]

A guy I used to work for bought an old lathe that's capable of turning 4' diameter stainless tubing 12' long with 6' diameter flanges welded at each end to build the vacuum enclosure for the UT Rail Gun research project. He used it to turn and face the end flanges and cut o-ring grooves. It's totally awesome and scary to watch at the same time. It takes a real man to crank those two handed handles on it because it's all old technology, but at least there's a crane for work piece handling.

[suther51]

Just had an image come into my head of pencils the size of big power line poles...;-)
Eric

[Frank S]

I whole heartedly agree with TM51 protect, protect, protect with what ever you have available and don't be stingy, Far better to have to have a machine steam cleaned when ready to put into service than to have to do a complete teardown and rebuild which is what I may have to do to a few of my machines that were not properly put into storage. many years before I got them. And my Cleareman jig drill that I had left in the care of the guy who rented my old shop is in pretty bad shape My partner in the commercial property we owned together formed a holding company to collect the rents and take care of the properties had to evict the guy for non pymt. of rent but the holding company had allowed this to go on for several years before telling the guy to get out. My machines and equipment were considered station property but this guy deciced he was going to take it all with him he got away with 3 lathes 2 Bridgeport's 2 radial arm drill presses and a host of welding equipment and work tables beofer they realized what he was doing he had the clearman outside ready to comeback and load it when they caught him none of the machines and equipment were recovered and the clearman was just left outside for 6 years before I returned I loaded it up and put it inside a van trailer every thing was already rusted badly and not having any way to really deal with it at the time I dumped a bunch of old oil and grease on it some day soon I am really going to have deal with it.