Anyone else have a Metal Lathe?

[chub]

I have an old Logan 815. circa 1940's .Screw cutting, auto feed, overall excellent condition. Came with a tonne of tooling and every accessory you can imagine. I love the old gal. Anyone else here into old lathes or workshop machinery?

Chub

 

[pa plateau hiker]

I have a 9" Bridgeport lathe from the early 50's. I used to use it quite often years ago to make threads, knurling, drilling, tapers. I don't use it enough to even remember how to use the power feed on it. Now I turn manually.

 

[WyoTrex]

I have a Enco 13"x40" This was an inheritance from a friends passing from a year ago. Hoping to get a small Grizzly mill in the coming months also. Used to have an Shoptask Bridgemill 17x22 3-n-1 machine that I had converted to CNC. Without CNC, Shoptask is a piece of crap in my opinion. With cnc it is a pretty good machine as long as you take light cuts and don't try to hog metal and live with the small size. I removed everything i could reuse or resell from the shoptask and scrapped the rest as scrap iron.

 

[laidback4sho]

I have a Mori Seiki at work. Nothing at the house though.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

I've got a '46 South Bend Heavy 10, and a Delta Rockwell vertical mill, and a Barker AM model horizontal. Just added a Morse metal saw to the collection. I salute all you guys that spend your money on tools, rather than toys. With enough tools you can build any toy you need....LOL
Jim

 

[sawmill man]

Yes a 17x60 Sidney that i use often and a very small craftsman 109 that i inherited .

 

[Nitric]

I have a peerless, Waltham,Boley,and a couple others. Do Jeweler/watch lathes count? I can't make anything big. But I'm pretty good with the small stuff. I also have a couple Pivot Making/polishing machines for watches and small instruments. They are like small lathes with a grinding wheel. I've never really used them They are still wired for 440v AC, I just like to collect the small stuff when I find it.

 

[sawmill man]

Of coarse Nitric, I for one would love to watch someone turning on a jewelers lathe . im used to working on skidders ,loaders , dozers and old greasy sawmills. getting to see someone mastering the really small stuff would be a treat.

 

[Nitric]

Of coarse Nitric, I for one would love to watch someone turning on a jewelers lathe . im used to working on skidders ,loaders , dozers and old greasy sawmills. getting to see someone mastering the really small stuff would be a treat.

It's the same only smaller. Probably actually easier. Just tighter tolerances. A lot of it can be done freehand with a graver. I've watched older guys that did amazing work. The gear cutters and compounds(?) cross slide is just smaller stuff. The biggest problem for me is that now that I'm Middle aged. It's a lot harder to see.

I got into this stuff because I can play with mechanical stuff in the house! I don't have the room or the money for the big stuff!

I'll still bet it's easier other than the measuring and seeing sometimes.

Ohhh! And I'm far from having it mastered! I make more mistakes than one time parts! One watch I wasted 10 pieces of metal before I actually got it right! A ton of trial and error on some complicated parts. but no one ever talks about that.

 

[Tnmountains]

Just a wood lathe. I am currently outfitting a black smith shop at home. I love tools. Looking at building a power hammer at the moment.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

At the college, I have a full machine shop (many of the machines are old but work great) to play in , but at home only a small Grizzly lathe and milling machine.

 

[sawmill man]

Not to hijack a thread , but you guys have got me when it comes to machining, but sense this is a treasure forum and we are talking machining . my dad has a vintage Barns no.5 with a seat attachment, and you pedal it like a bicycle hows that for antiques.

 

[Canadian_zuk]

I have a 13x24 Metal lathe in my home garage I use almost daily for small personal projects, gun smithing and speciality ATV tools I make and sell (this really took off on me). I'm looking to add a Mill in the near future, just looking for the right deal

 

[chub]

I have a 13x24 Metal lathe in my home garage I use almost daily for small personal projects, gun smithing and speciality ATV tools I make and sell (this really took off on me). I'm looking to add a Mill in the near future, just looking for the right deal

Its always the tooling that adds up...some good eastern European tooling can be found at times for a good price.

Chub

 

[chub]

Not to hijack a thread , but you guys have got me when it comes to machining, but sense this is a treasure forum and we are talking machining . my dad has a vintage Barns no.5 with a seat attachment, and you pedal it like a bicycle hows that for antiques.

I'm pretty sure it's ok here in the General section. We can't be detecting ALL the time (although many of us try -ha ha)

Chub

 

[sawmill man]

Ca. zuk , not sure what type your looking for ,but i bought a foreign brand small round column style on a pallet cheap , did some pulley making after cleaning it up and put on a new motor, that little thing is a pretty good outfit ,i have a wells index but i find myself doing alot of work with that smaller one , have did some some very satisfying work with it. o and i better clarify myself this was a mill i was describing, and i was surprised after cleaning it ,the dovetails and ways were scrapped in .

 

[dgerst]

I have a Speedway (Sieg) 7x12 mini lathe. I mainly use it for installing ferrules and tips on pool cues. I use it a few times a year for other stuff as well. Handy tool.