new hobby lathe pencil sharpener

[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.