Thread: Show us your lathe

Originally Posted by eskimo

dadaaaah

Good to see you finally got it Eskimo, can you use it or do you have to hide it for a while again.

Dave

Originally Posted by simonl

Bloody hell. They did a job on it then! If it was for free you'd have a go at fixing but sounds like a lot of cracked cast iron. Good for parts though.... if the price was right.

What a waist of a good machine...

Simon

I remember when that happened and he was sort of glad it did because he didn't realise the size of the machine, so he bought the lighter lathe instead.

Dave

Originally Posted by Dave J

Good to see you finally got it Eskimo, can you use it or do you have to hide it for a while again.

Dave

its in the shed Dave....she's seen it

Originally Posted by eskimo

its in the shed Dave....she's seen it

Whose did you say it was?

Originally Posted by Stustoys

Whose did you say it was?

LOL
Good one Stuart

Dave

Originally Posted by Stustoys

Whose did you say it was?

very funny....

dont you guys know that I won it in a raffle at the working with wood show

lol love it!

Originally Posted by eskimo

dont you guys know that I won it in a raffle at the working with wood show

"how many tickets did you buy?" "Oh about $4905 worth"

Originally Posted by Stustoys

lol love it!


"how many tickets did you buy?" "Oh about $4905 worth"

I knew there would be a twist to it.

Dave

Here is the lathe I recently acquired. Its a 12x36 and it runs great. I'm just getting started in machining and looking forward to turning and learning.
-cj

Hi all, First post here but thought i'd better show off some pics of my Conrik/Great Scott.

I'm not really sure which one it is as it has no nameplate, only a Ministry of Munitions Tag
I think its from the 50s as the Ministry of Munitions was only named so from 54 to 58?

I have had her for 6 years or so, when i got her she was in bits, the bright spark i got her from thought he would make a wood lathe out of her and gave up half way.

As you can tell either she makes plenty of chips or i don't clean up enough. She needs some more work, but i need a second lathe to rebush the bearings etc so i am on the lookout.....

For those with good eyes, yes i think thats a southbend (or one of the may copies)countershaft unit, and certainly not the original.

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Thats a nice solid looking lathe, and I especially like the cross slide and carriage T slots. Looks like you got all the gear to go with it as well which was a good score. I am not sure why the guy was going to convert it to wood when it's got many years left as a metal lathe.

Dave

Hi

That is a impressive old lathe . I've never seen T slots going across the bed like that before , it would be a very handy idea .

What type of headstock bearings does it run ? I think I can see split bushes ?

Just think about all the gun or artillery parts that lathe has made

Mike

Just looking at the spanner at the end of the crosslide. I see the saddle is designed with milling in mind but does the crosslide also function as a vice?