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Looks a bit like a craftsman but the tag is gone. It was given to my brother and he is going to clean it up and see if even works. He has offered it to me but I don't know where in the garage I could put it.... but would love to have it.
If I know a make maybe I can id the model but without that it would be a lot of work trying to find a manual.

Ed

Looks like this one.
http://vintagemachinery.org/photoindex/ ... x?id=31856
http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=6603

I will agree on the Sears 109 suggestion above. Around 2014 my brother-in-law gave me one and I did a fair amount of cleaning on it, putting in a new oilite bearing which was readily available in newly-fabricated parts on eBay. Before I got to using it, I reprioritized my hobbies and sold the 109 to another guy.

Thank you and my brother thanks you!

Looks like that was from 1949 through the 50's and then changed color in the 60's so a lot of year out there. The lathe seems to have most of the parts and I can more then likely find a few things to add to it if I decide to take it. Will have to give him some $$ for all the cleaning he does but still love the idea of having a metal lathe to use.

Would have to get a book on how to use it.... it has been a lot of years since I was exposed to one and other then very simple turning I will be lost.

Ed

reible wrote:Thank you and my brother thanks you!

Looks like that was from 1949 through the 50's and then changed color in the 60's so a lot of year out there. The lathe seems to have most of the parts and I can more then likely find a few things to add to it if I decide to take it. Will have to give him some $$ for all the cleaning he does but still love the idea of having a metal lathe to use.

Would have to get a book on how to use it.... it has been a lot of years since I was exposed to one and other then very simple turning I will be lost.

Ed

The one I received last year http://shopsmith.com/ss_forum/maintenan ... 22861.html is it's bigger brother. You will love it. I had forgotten how cool a metal lathe is to have around. It had been over three decades since I had one.

Have fun!

Trying to remember back a lot of years... Were those Craftsman lathes made by Atlas?
That engine-spun trim was a Craftsman thing. My late 1940's early 1950's Craftsman floor model drill press has that kind of trim on it and the motor both. My farther bought it when a family friend sold out his busy cabinet shop and retired about 1953. It has spent its life since we got it doing metal work, some of it pretty tough use. Still works great and still has the original motor (Craftsman 1/2 HP double end shafts) and I believe it is only on its 4th belt since we have had it. When you drill several 3/4" holes in 1" steel you have worked the belt hard. Much of our farm shop use was closer to black-smith work than fine machining but it was not hard on belts.
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I have a nice Southbend metal lathe that I bought maybe 30 years ago. It's a double pedestal lathe that a retired GM engineer had in his home shop. It's 9" x 36" C to C with a quick change gearbox. I have basic tooling for it and made a few special attachments for it. They can be quite flexible. I used to use it a good bit before I retired doing stuff like making bushings and bearing mounts and such for farm machinery where parts were no longer available. I would take a picture of it but since I am not using it a lot now it has suffered a bad case of "flat surface syndrome" where it would take a day to dig it out.


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It has been about 50 years for me, perhaps a little longer.... For a project like those aluminum tubes I have been turning this should work fine and I think I can manage to set it up for that.

Noticed odd pitch on feeds, no dials for number references but still better then what I have been doing with the shopsmith.

Ed

robinson46176 wrote:Trying to remember back a lot of years... Were those Craftsman lathes made by Atlas?
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Vintage Machinery says they were made by
Double A Products Co.
Ann Arbor, MI; Manchester, MI, U.S.A.