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Admin Real old gold
January 9th, 2007 08:30 AM
A steal if you are near Tulsa for a big lathe that requires no restoration with all attachments:
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=004918;p=0
Joe Great unit
January 9th, 2007 01:12 PM
That looks like great old gold. Very well maintained and a real quality piece. They surely don't make them like that anymore.

It's rare because it's a Craftsman Commercial unit.
Adam Very nice lathe
January 9th, 2007 09:59 PM
January 9, 2007 Very nice lathe


Somebody got a very good deal for only $750.


Besides the basic 10 or 12 inch swing, metal lathe there is:


A quick change gear box (considered and sold as an extra by many manufacturers).

A commercial style tool bit holder, designed to hold carbide tool bits.

A metal cabinet, complete with metal top tray that could be fitted with a recirculating coolant pumping system.

There is a 3-jaw chuck mounted on the unit, with its chuck-key dutifully positioned behind the motors front-mounted drum switch.

A ball-bearing "live-center" mounted in the tailstock suggests at headstock lathe center, a lathe dog driving "smaller" face plate (with a single wide slot for the ear of the lathe dog).

I see from the relative lack of depth of the faceplate that the lathe used a threaded arbor, rather than a tapered-nose/locking ring or cam-type spindle attachment mounting system.

I see some nice big Jacob‛s chucks mounted on a bracket on the wall above the lathe.

There is a 4-jaw accessory chuck on the floor spread.

A large diameter face plate for doing flat work.

A woodworking lathe analogy would be turning a bowl.

A steady rest for doing machining on long, but thin, cylindrical pieces, that might otherwise bow due to cutting forces.

A follower rest that bolted to the carriage could literally "follow" the cutting bit's longitudinal travel.

A milling attachment that replaces the compound rest for doing simple, limited travel milling work.

An aluminum cylindrical grinder holding attachment, that would have allowed mica-undercutting of dressed copper armature commutator bars.

Boy, this unit looks sweet.

All I‛d need would be an indexing head and a Versa-mill and I could make my own ratchet drive gear repairs or possibly even make new gears.
Joe And
January 10th, 2007 01:29 PM
A quality USA MADE item made with pride in our great country...and the fact that it is OLD and still probably works as new is a testament to the quality of that design.

You WILL not get an imported lathe that works or lasts as long as this one did...
Adam Got real old gold
April 14th, 2007 11:46 PM
April 14, 2007 Got real old gold


Ok. Keep in mind I live in California, where probably all of you have heard of the "gold rush days".

When I moved into my house, the former owner had left some stuff out in the shed, including a big old piece of rectangular "hollow" cast-iron.

The thing was all rusted and had been used as a door "holder opener" thingy.

I decided to "clean it up" one day.

While the rust was flying, I noticed some very bright colored specks of metal, shining in contrast to the dull cast iron (maybe steel).

They were GOLD...

Turns out this thing is a gold ingot mold!

It was most-likely used to consolidate prospectors' gold nuggets into bank depositable sized pieces of gold ingots.

I thought you might be interested in a "real" old gold item story.

The ingot mold has moved from the outside shed, to inside the garage now.

I might donate it to a "gold nugget" museum I know of.
Joe LOL
April 15th, 2007 06:20 PM
Don't suspect you have a prospector's plate and go into the streams like on the movies, huh? LOL.
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