Featured Technical Picked up a lathe...

patsurf · Sep 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM

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Having a lathe is great, but if you're not careful, it might not stop with just one lathe... My Smart & Brown Model 'A' toolroom lathe bought by me at a government surplus auction nearly 50 years ago.

A well equipped and accurate machine, but being only 9" swing, sometimes I just ran out of capacity for larger work. So, better buy a bigger lathe, I bought this Dean, Smith & Grace Type 17 about 5 years ago, 17" swing over the bed 26 ish inches swing in the gap, fitted with a taper turning attachment and has a 10 HP motor so not an underpowered machine.

But then, what about really fine work? making carburettor needles and the like? better get a Smart & Brown Model L instrument lathe then; takes industry standard 5C collets, and has a maximum spindle speed of 3000 RPM, ideal for very small diameter stuff. This is a 1977 machine, it not only looked almost new when I bought it, but it had all the manufacturers accuracy test paperwork with it. Everything I checked was still in 'factory' tolerance. I did have to do some re-wiring work on it, which was 'interesting' as the two speed three phase motor has a small forest of wires coming out of it.

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everyone is envious of the d s &g!!--a rolls royce!

DDDenny · Sep 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM

Stueeee said: ↑

I bought this Dean, Smith & Grace Type 17 about 5 years ago
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That's a beauty!

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