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I had what appears to be the same lathe, but shop converted and not in such nice shape. Mine had a really noisy 4 speed shop built transmission. I might have a pic somewhere. I ran out of room when I added other machines and gave it to a friend, who ended up sitting it outside. Ruined a perfectly good 4 jaw. Mine was a 20" swing by about 40" between centers. I did pull the 10hp 3ph motor off it. When I saw it sitting outside over at his shop, he kept telling me he had someone wanting to buy it and would split it with me. That never happened. One day when I went by there and he wasn't there, I decided he was going to scrap it, so I took the glass oilers off the headstock. Didn't figure it would make the scrappers any difference. That's all I have left of it. Kind of sad, really.
I'd be a little cautious of running it very fast. Mine was mfg circa 1913 I was able to determine, and of course that was long before anyone needed carbide speeds. However, whoever converted mine set it up to run about 1200 rpm at the top end and the bearings, even though they were not at all tight, still got hotter than I was comfortable with. I tried different lubes, but nothing really suited the higher spindle speeds.
I take that back, it had a Trav-a-dial on it....I took it off before I gave it away.
Use it hard as you want otherwise....it's a tough machine. I cut lots of threads and made lots of big blue chips with mine.....and made money. It was my first business machine. Well, next to a Unimat I toyed with back in 79 lol.
I'd be a little cautious of running it very fast. Mine was mfg circa 1913 I was able to determine, and of course that was long before anyone needed carbide speeds. However, whoever converted mine set it up to run about 1200 rpm at the top end and the bearings, even though they were not at all tight, still got hotter than I was comfortable with. I tried different lubes, but nothing really suited the higher spindle speeds.
I take that back, it had a Trav-a-dial on it....I took it off before I gave it away.
Use it hard as you want otherwise....it's a tough machine. I cut lots of threads and made lots of big blue chips with mine.....and made money. It was my first business machine. Well, next to a Unimat I toyed with back in 79 lol.