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11th Jul 2016, 06:32 PM #1Most Valued Member
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Hi From Melbourne
G'day, My name is Ralph, im a programmer by trade, but I grew up in an engineering family. Ive been into Metalworking, particularly Machining for the last three years or so.
I got into it to help make a short run of parts for a 1912 Caddilac my father was/is working on and boy did it stick. I had an old, pretty worn out Nuttall 12" lathe, But I have recently purchased a 1966 Macson 14" Lathe (Mostly for the higher spindle speeds and extra horsepower so I can run more modern tooling) and A J-head Bridgeport. Thankfully a great friend of mine has allowed me some space in his factory for all this gear. I look forward to posting about some projects as I get set-up and working.
Ill be headed to Bendigo swap meet this year with a lot of my duplicate/unneeded gear this year so Ill probably post it up for a bit of horse trading before hauling it up there.
Regards - Ralph
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11th Jul 2016, 08:41 PM #2
Hmm. The lathe looks a bit familiar, if you stand on yer head .
Welcome to the forum.
Dean
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11th Jul 2016, 10:29 PM #3
Hi Ralph
I resemble that lathe , they were made at least til the mid 1960's , the later examples had a camlock spindle fitting I think
Is the Caddy a V8 ? I recall seeing one of similar vintage years ago . Impressive looking car . Mike
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12th Jul 2016, 05:33 PM #4Most Valued Member
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Hah, I find it a lot easier to use my lathe roof mounted and on the floor, helps chip removal and cleanup. The caddy is a big 5 litre four cylinder model 30, Id pop some photos up but I can fit all 20,000 pieces of it in the frame. Yeah thats the same lathe a model C, mine does have the D1-6 camlock spindle. My newer Macson uses this weired European style taper lock with a big rotating washer that holds bolts from the backplate, dont know how i feel about it yet, kind of a pain in the ass.
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14th Jul 2016, 12:31 PM #5Senior Member
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Welcome to the forum Ralph.
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