Thread: harrison lathe

I priced some new Harrison headstock gears from 600 Machinery, the distributors. The cheapest one was around $1500.
These are hardened, ground, complex design.

Jordan

Originally Posted by nadroj

I priced some new Harrison headstock gears from 600 Machinery, the distributors. The cheapest one was around $1500.
These are hardened, ground, complex design.

Jordan

holy cow another pommy company into extortion..no wonder their manufacturing capability are all just about gone

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Just came across this after seeing your post. It's a 59 and I never read the thread but it might help you out a bit.
Harrison L5 lathe rebuild

Dave

Originally Posted by Ueee

Like this Mike? Page Title

Yes Ewan

The example I inspected has a shorter bed, but essentially, thats it

the leadscrew is about 1" diameter ...

one thing I noticed , it has a threaded spindle ... not that L type so it must be a pre 1959 model .

Originally Posted by Dave J

Just came across this after seeing your post. It's a 59 and I never read the thread but it might help you out a bit.
Harrison L5 lathe rebuild

Dave

Ta for that

I had a quick read of the lathes UK blog , and apparently the noisy gearbox was due to the type of material they used for the gears . So it may be OK ?

From what I have read Harrison lathes where good quality.

Dave

Originally Posted by Dave J

From what I have read Harrison lathes where good quality.

Dave

The M300 model was first made in the 1970s, and is still a current model.
It looks like the origin of a thousand clones.

Moving a Harrison M300 lathe from Devon to London

Jordan

So did you buy it? I went and had a look as well and didn't think it was overly noisy.

Originally Posted by waxen

so did you buy it? I went and had a look as well and didn't think it was overly noisy.

Yes I got it.. am I in for another disaster ?

Done some reading, its apparently a L5 not a 5A as I had thought .

There were a few other people looking at it and It would have sold if I didnt make my mind up and quickly .

Congratulations,

Now we want pictures

Dave

Originally Posted by nadroj

The M300 model was first made in the 1970s, and is still a current model.
It looks like the origin of a thousand clones.

Moving a Harrison M300 lathe from Devon to London

Jordan

I wouldnt be game enough to lift a machine that heavy with a cheap engine crane . That exact same crane is sold here by super crap auto . Knowing my luck the crane would collapse at the critical point and drop the machine .A HIAB is so much safer .
BTW thats a fantastic lathe he bought from that school in the UK ...... makes my purchase look like a heap of scrap


Mike

I would jump at a Harrison lathe like that, always like the style of the cabinet. I am going to make a new cabinet/stand for my lathe similar to it.

As for engine cranes, when I went to the markets to buy mine and I had the choice from 2 sellers, the first was a 2 ton crane with air over hydraulic ram which would be nice, the second was a dual piston pump manual ram but I noticed the wall thickness was a lot thicker in all the tubing, it was also the last one he had in. I ended up going the manual crane with the thicker wall tubing as I can always up grade to a air over hydraulic ram in it, but it's a big job to strengthen a whole frame.
I now notice all the new ones are mainly 1.5 ton and are the same as the thin wall one I was looking at, so maybe something went on about them.

I have lifted my HM52 mill with mine and although it was on it's limit it did lift it. I would have liked a 3 ton crane like some guys here have, but just didn't have the extra as there double the price of a 2 ton.

Dave

I used a Harrison lathe at tafe when doing my apprenticeship, it was newer than that one square shaped headstock, it also was noisy to run but was a good lathe