Traditional shop tool.

I have lathe envy!

 

I have a line on a phase converter large enough to run it and a mill. I need to get over and check it out. The motor shops here in salt lake said to run the converter cause a single phase moter will cost 1500 buck and cost a fortune to run any way. So im going with the phase converter.

 

LOL!

 

I could do that! I would have to put them in a drill chuck and then put it in the 3 jaw!!

I got it off the trailer today! I feel like i have been run over now but well worth the effort and $80 for wood to rig and crib the Damn thing here are some pics of the big move in to the garage. It will only stay for a short time mabey 6 to 10 month or mabey more? I will be getting the warehouse in the back yard done this next spring and will put it in there and all the other toys I have no room for. I found out that it is a 1943 lathe. so this thing had to have done some war service for a little while.

 

Here are a few more.

 

How are you gonna get it outa there ?

 

Nice score. It's a sign of the times. Can anyone guess why machines like this are dirt cheap all over America these days? Can you say "China"?

I can see it now - US goes through another 9/11 event and needs cannons. "Hey China - can you help us out?"

 

Next time you need to move it, find someone with a tilt-rollback truck like they move forklifts with, or even a wrecker if it will handle the weight. They can pull it up on the truck and slide it off the truck easily. Very inexpensive and SAFE. I have seen more than one machine dropped or turned over the way you did it.

 

I'd run it on a static phase converter for now. They work fine for machines like that. They say you loose some torque but trust me, you won't notice it with that machine. I didn't with any of my machines.

Then when you build the new shop set the eniter shop up on a rotory phase converter. They are pretty spendy but easy to make yourself.

Nice old Iron and yes, I'm sure war parts were made on it. My 81 year old mother-in-law always talks about runing a drill press all day when she was a kid.

Do you have any tooling?

 

The size more then anything. Most don't want a monster. I bet if it was a 12X36 it would have sold right away.
And it is sad to say with all the CNC window watches not many people left that know how to really run handle machines anymore.

 

Great score!

That dwafs my 13-16" swing South Bend.....it weighed in at about 2500#. It still has the good ole' US of A military tag on it from WWII. Luckely it was originally set up with single phase so I did alright electricity wise....

You can still get a parts book copy & dvd to run it off internet.

Enjoy.

Paco

 

Probably the same way I got it in there. Lots of work and sevral freinds. and maybe a flat bed tow truck? i didnt want it to set out side under a tarp and have the winter screw it all up. So it was worth the work to keep it out of the weather..

 

The machine was tied to the trailer all the way down and chianed from the rear with a 2 ton chain fall hoist to control decent. one strap on each side so it could not tip or move to the sides at all. Each move was 6" and then it was chained back down and then rerigged and we did it again. it took the better part of the day. We used a 8000# winch two parted and dead maned off the rear deck of the trailer so there was no getting in the way of the machine or any jacks to fall. The unit was never elevated from the deck.

 

Screw forming out sheet or looking hells half acres for a belly tank - You could carve one out with that thing. Talk about crazy - a seamless belly tanker.

Me jealous.

 

I am truly impressed with your rigging to move that beast,The shop I work for has five of those things,and they havent moved them for fifty years.If you think that one is big we have one that is ten feet in swing and 35' longIt is so big it had to built in place

 

Like the psycho schoolbus hijacker said when he was looking down the barrel of Clint Eastwood's 44 magnum, "My, that's a big one".

 

I need a driveline done call me.

 

That poor trailer great score ! you can use it as a frame table too ?

 

and a Rotisserie!!!!


-COS

 

I just saw one very similar to that in an old machine shop at NASA Glen in Cleveland

 

That gives me "lathe envy"... as mine is much, much shorter.

Ya got me in girth too.

Sam.

 

Check with the power company and see what it would cost to have three phase run into your shop.

One of the hangups could be that you live in a single phase area of the neighborhood, but if you're lucky all three phases will be close to the shop.

Do a little reading on phase shifting with capacitors.
If you can find some big enough it's doable deal.

 

I have a BIG phase converter to run it.
It is running now and has made a few parts here and there.

Here is the partner to the lathe.

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Here was one project, Added 2" to the width of these,

 

The lights will dim for miles around every time you flip the switch

 

Hey Could ya through a Model A flywheel on that beast and give it weight reduction 60 Lbs to 40 Lbs

 

22" is the biggest dia. it will handle and about 2000 to 3000 pounds of m***.

I have found some chips under the head that would scare you to death. 1' wide and at least 1/16 thick coiled into a 2" circle. Man I about died when i found them and there was alot.
one day I will build something worth having this monster for. For now, drivelines and wheels.

 

I've still got my old dinosaur. It works so well I hate to get rid of it. My modern lathe handles most anything, but for driveshafts this is still the best (8' bed).



good old machine! and the price was right (free, but dis***embled).