new hobby lathe pencil sharpener

[Beserkleyboy]

Suther,
Reminds me of our family lumber yard in Nor Calif. We had a Hyster RC150, 7.5 tonne, but we used to try to lift 2 units of green 2x12 16-20' Calif Redwood....just to save time. The rear wheels would come of the ground in reverse, so ya had to go veerrry slowly. The hydraulics could lift maybe 8-9 tonnes...Possibly the best driving large forklift I can remember. My last one was a 2 1/2 tonne Komatsu for my plywood business in Sydney, another beaut machine...alas, now I have to make do with a chain hoist and rolling carts...jeez, getting old is hard! Cheers
Jim

[Frank S]

Frank, from looking at the photo, it appears (at least to me) that the head stock and tail stock have a spacer added to raise them up. It may be some optical trickery I'm seeing. If this is the case, I wonder if this was a factory modification.

Yes there is a riser under the head stock and the tail stock This would actually give it 48" swing between the chuck and the carriage but 36 over the carriage.

[Radioman]

Yes there is a riser under the head stock and the tail stock This would actually give it 48" swing between the chuck and the carriage but 36 over the carriage.

Looks like someone needed a little more swing
somewhere over the decades.

[wadebrooks]

What is the make of this lathe? I have a 20" that looks like this that is made by Cincinnati Lathe & Tool Co. The handles and gear change box are identical and the paint color looks the same.

[Crusty]

A guy I used to work for bought an old lathe that's capable of turning 4' diameter stainless tubing 12' long with 6' diameter flanges welded at each end to build the vacuum enclosure for the UT Rail Gun research project. He used it to turn and face the end flanges and cut o-ring grooves. It's totally awesome and scary to watch at the same time. It takes a real man to crank those two handed handles on it because it's all old technology, but at least there's a crane for work piece handling.

[suther51]

Just had an image come into my head of pencils the size of big power line poles...;-)
Eric

[VinnieL]

You could turn baseball bats for Paul Bunyon....

[Frank S]

Looks like someone needed a little more swing
somewhere over the decades.

Pretty sure it was factory raised this was fairly common to allow for larger swing over the carriage. Years ago I had a Clausing lathe that had been raised and the top of the cross slide had been milled or gouged out by a tool in the chuck. pretty sure the hollowed out spot was not factory

[Frank S]

Well the stuff is loaded and will be headed for Tx later this evening.

[Radioman]

I see it. I love it but I’d hate to pay for it!
I have a Bridgeport and a 10" Logan lathe and I do what I can.
I’d love to have the ability to get equipment like this.
Enjoy it! Send us photos when you get them spinning.