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25th Apr 2013, 09:51 AM #1Mechanical Butcher
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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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25th Apr 2013, 11:24 AM #2.
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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.
BT
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25th Apr 2013, 09:25 PM #4Mechanical Butcher
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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.
Jordan
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25th Apr 2013, 09:35 PM #5
Obviously the OH&S inspectors don't travel that far from Sydney!
Interesting workshop.
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25th Apr 2013, 09:37 PM #6
That sure is one hell of a job. Good on him.
That poor DP table must be Swiss...1915 17"x50" LeBlond heavy duty Lathe, 24" Queen city shaper, 1970's G Vernier FV.3.TO Universal Mill, 1958 Blohm HFS 6 surface grinder, 1942 Rivett 715 Lathe, 14"x40" Antrac Lathe, Startrite H225 Bandsaw, 1949 Hercus Camelback Drill press, 1947 Holbrook C10 Lathe.
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25th Apr 2013, 10:27 PM #7Philomath in training
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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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26th Apr 2013, 12:07 AM #9
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26th Apr 2013, 12:08 AM #10Most Valued Member
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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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26th Apr 2013, 11:48 AM #12Senior Member
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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.
Cheers J
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26th Apr 2013, 07:22 PM #13Mechanical Butcher
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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.All The Best steran50 Stewart
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28th Apr 2013, 10:34 AM #15Mechanical Butcher
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Why settle for an arc of shame when you can have a moonscape!
Jordan
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