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    Default Another home made lathe

    The local car repair garage has a conventional lathe, used regularly, that the owner says was designed and built by his father. His initials are cast on the bed and elsewhere.
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    What a job! Near on impossible to comprehend the amount of work involved for an individual to conceive the idea then translate it into patterns, castings and all the other bits and pieces that make a lathe.

    Great photos.

    Thanks Jordan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    What a job! Near on impossible to comprehend the amount of work involved for an individual to conceive the idea then translate it into patterns, castings and all the other bits and pieces that make a lathe.

    Great photos.

    Thanks Jordan.

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    Yep. What he said!

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    Some more photos.
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    And a few pics of some other machinery in the workshop.
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    It's rare to see an automotive shop with a lathe at all these days. This one is in a semi-rural area, and gets some tractor etc work.
    All tools here are clearly still earning their keep.

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    Obviously the OH&S inspectors don't travel that far from Sydney!

    Interesting workshop.

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    That sure is one hell of a job. Good on him.

    That poor DP table must be Swiss...
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    Hang on - one of those photos looks like overhead line shafting and laced belting!
    Quick - hide it from Steamwhisperer - he'll want to visit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ueee View Post
    That sure is one hell of a job. Good on him.

    That poor DP table must be Swiss...
    Sadly gruyered Ew.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Shed View Post
    Obviously the OH&S inspectors don't travel that far from Sydney!

    Interesting workshop.
    They probably visit, but they don't look too hard if they want their car fixed..

    Some seriously nice bits of gear hiding away there... Thanks Jordan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Shed View Post
    Obviously the OH&S inspectors don't travel that far from Sydney!
    Hey there is a guard over the bevel gears on the drill......... what more do you want?

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    There's something incongruous about the staggering effort that's gone into the lathe and the casual brutality applied to the drill table (not to mention the general squalor). Anyway, the story behind the lathe and its maker would be worth unearthing. He must have been quite a guy.

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    Love to see these things being used and preserved.Am sure the old boy guarded the lathe and let the apprentices use the drill love the ''white ants''.
    Am sure from memory that some of these lathes were cast during the war as some garages were impressed into making war effort material.Was a lose em or lose em situation. Also these castings were finished by tech schools and school of mines and some govt apprentice training wings as exercises in their training.
    Where i finished my apprentice ship {motor mechanic] we had a large machine shop there as was a general engineering place as well as a dealership.
    During world war 2 the shop ran 2 shifts and made parts for Bofor 40 mm guns.They were told if the machines were to be kept they had to do war effort stuff or lose them.As it was the govt procured their brand new Servex front wheel alignment set up the only 1 outside of Melbourne metro area.Sadly at end of war was sold as surplus and they were not able to retrieve it.
    This workshop is well used and is always easier to find the tooling as it was there from the last job. Just hang it in the swarf.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bryan View Post
    the story behind the lathe and its maker would be worth unearthing. He must have been quite a guy.
    The owner wasn't very forthcoming with info, but was happy to let me photograph his workshop.
    I'll see if I can get some history.

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    HI,
    Thanks Heaps Jordan for Posting that. It would be nice to know some more about the Guy that Built the Lathe, He must have been an amazing Guy. I don't even want to start think about how many Hours of Work went into making that Lathe. Now that is the worst Swiss Cheese job I have seen on a Drill Yet.
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    Why settle for an arc of shame when you can have a moonscape!

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