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Pat
13th September 2008, 04:58 PM
Cruising thru Epay found this (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/wood-turning-patten-lathe_W0QQitemZ330270057971QQihZ014QQcategoryZ11810QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)for , although it may be a tad small for him :U

Ashes
13th September 2008, 08:43 PM
That would be pretty handy for pens..You could probably do about a 100 at a time!!

Skew ChiDAMN!!
13th September 2008, 09:23 PM
I don't think he needs another Mini... :D

munruben
13th September 2008, 10:11 PM
And very portable too:)

markharrison
13th September 2008, 10:31 PM
That's not a lathe. This is a lathe...

http://www.dailypress2.com/cvn77/images/ng_SS-21REV-10-06-06-FIN.jpg

This is a propellor shaft for the USS George H. W. Bush which is being constructed at the Newport News Shipyard.

tea lady
13th September 2008, 11:49 PM
:oo: Yep. That looks like a lathe. The ebay one though is a bit small for I think.:no:

Ed Reiss
14th September 2008, 12:27 PM
Don't know 'bout , but all those dials and switches would confuse the hell out of me!!:doh:

Cheers,
Ed :D

RETIRED
15th September 2008, 06:24 PM
That's not a lathe. This is a lathe...

http://www.dailypress2.com/cvn77/images/ng_SS-21REV-10-06-06-FIN.jpg

This is a propellor shaft for the USS George H. W. Bush which is being constructed at the Newport News Shipyard.Oh yeah, Baby.:D

Studley 2436
15th September 2008, 07:26 PM
For lathes there is someone in Europe that makes a lathe that has a bed of about 140 feet and a swing of about 15 feet. It has a CNC control on it and the operator station is a platform that is mounted on top of the Carriage.

Stuff like the shaft above would be much too small to put in that baby.

Studley

markharrison
19th September 2008, 11:47 PM
It ain't real unless there's a picture:photo2::slap::D

ubeaut
20th September 2008, 12:34 AM
Used one of them there Elio Valeri lathes on a weekly basis for almost 9 months teaching the scum of the earth to turn. Personally I thought as a general lathe it was an absolute dog of a thing. They never used it for copy work although I did give it a bit of a try out for a couple of weeks but part of it was missing, so it may have been good for that, but as it was...... Bugger of a thing.

On the plus side, it had about 10,000 speeds in forward and reverse and a good quick release tail stock and if you could turn on that thing with hand tools you could turn on anything.

Rather have 's any day.

Cheers - Neil :)

Studley 2436
20th September 2008, 01:02 PM
just digging around but there are some very large machines out there. Mostly used for making ships engines and the like. http://home.comcast.net/~usr99/bigcrank.jpg is a pretty big one

http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/ has some stuff about ships engines. You get to see the stuff they make without seeing the lathe they did it on.

Back to wood http://www.peter-andres.com/www_root/gallerie.php?Verzeichnis=galerie/events/veranstaltungen/Weltrekord&Nummer=0# is a page of some guys making a big bowl or something.

Studley