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28th Apr 2023, 04:42 PM #1Diamond Member
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Giant Vertical Lathe
Large Vertical Lathe.jpgI just spotted this Vertical Lathe in an email from homemadetools and I thought I would share it on here as not everyone would be a member of homemadetools. I'm going to order one and make washers in the garden shed with it.
All The Best steran50 Stewart
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28th Apr 2023, 05:49 PM #2Diamond Member
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That's been going around all the machining related social media for about a week or so. if you look closely at the pic you can see the slideways that the columns can move back on to give more swing, that is why the bridge looks so out of proportion to diameter of the table.
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28th Apr 2023, 05:50 PM #3Golden Member
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As illustrated, it was really designed for precision machined street intersection roundabouts.
Nice kit, but postage from overseas may be a bit exe.
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28th Apr 2023, 07:36 PM #4Diamond Member
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I searched online just now and found the same picture dated 1929. I looked at the picture again and your right Snapatap. I wonder what they machined on it. I was hoping the postage would be free - LOL. I just came across this website with pictures of other big machines Industrial History: Big Machine Tools
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28th Apr 2023, 09:33 PM #5Golden Member
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This one looks similar to a Craven I run at work, except for the extra saddle.
Edit: Actually, it looks more like our Poreba
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7th May 2023, 01:40 PM #6Senior Member
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The Western Australian Government Railways had a huge manufacturing facility at Midland, known of course as the Midland Railways Workshop. In the mid to late 80's the government decided to close the workshop. My neighbour worked there. He told me a number of now ex staff wanted to buy some of the machinery and lease back some workshop space, and go into business making and repairing what they did before they became redundant. "NO" said the government and everything was scrapped! This included the largest horizontal lathe in the southern hemisphere, which was capable of turning the driving wheels for the the Flying Scotsmam, which I think are 16' in diameter! As anaside, the cost of maintaining rolling stock jumped to almost double the previous year. Also, as the Workshop trained apprentices, within 10 years we were importing "skilled" tradesmen from overseas to fill the gap. We still do this!
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7th May 2023, 08:53 PM #7
When I worked at the Alumina refinery at Gladstone there was a smaller( in diameter) beastie in the machine shop.
It was a couple of stories high and somewhere around 2.5m in diameter. You might get 2 minis on the table, closed up.
However it was always referred to by machine shop fitters as a vertical borer, never as a lathe.
Grahame
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7th May 2023, 09:50 PM #8
Hi Guys,
What's in a name ! Boring or turning, its still a whopper of a machine.
When I was much younger the local foundry that made wheels for colliery waggons and trains had a large vertical lathe that they used for turning wheel castings and Iron tires.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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7th Jun 2023, 10:09 AM #9Senior Member
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