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I lived with this lathe from 1979 to 2005 when I passed it on to a younger lad in Ohio to take into the 21st century. I could wax poetic about this lathe and I'm sure it wouldn't be snickered at in this forum
. I do miss it.
The drill chuck is a 3/4" ball bearing British patented Cardinal chuck. I had to slightly modify a Jacobs key to fit it. I still have the drill chuck.
Spindle thread: 2 1/8-6
Spindle taper: 5MT stub
The Von Wyck was said to have a patented carriage drive. It wasn't a Von Wyck patent but the Le Blond patent. The company was originally called Roach & Von Wyck. Mr. Roach was the milling machine foreman from the Le Blond company.
The Von Wyck originally had a belt drive feed rod. Somewhere along the way mine was updated to a grear drive feed rod. It cut beautiful threads.
The nameplate from my old Von Wyck. Notice there was something scrapped off before "Von Wyck".
It was "Roach &".
This nameplate from a Von Wyck in Canada shows the later name. Cope's book, American Lathe Builders: 1810-1910 says Von Wyck was formed in 1903 from Roach & Von Wyck and that a quick-change gearbox was introduced in 1908. This pretty much dates my old lathe to 1903 as it was made during the tenure of Mr.Roach and Emil Von Wyck and still in inventory during the transition.
Steel and iron, Volume 70
January, 1902
The Roach & Von Wyck Machine Tool Company has been organized by W. H.
Roach and E. Von Wyck, of this city. The company has located at 1625
Blue Rock street, Cummitisville, (Cincinnati suburb) and will build an
improved 15 inch engine lathe. Mr. Roach recently resigned as
Superintendent of the milling machine department of the R. K. Le Blond
Machine Too Company, this city.
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International Motor Cyclopaedia
SPORT, INDUSTRY and TRADE
Automobiles, Motorcycles, Motorboats and Aeronautics
YEAR BOOK' MARCH. 1908 TO MARCH, 1909
Von Wyck Machine Tool Co. Special automobile machinery.
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Machinery, Volume 19, Issues 1-6
edited by Lester Gray French
September, 1912
Clifford P. Kern, formerly president of the Kern Machine Tool Co.,
Hamilton, Ohio, has disposed of his interest In that company and
purchased the Von Wyck Machine Tool Co. of Cincinnati, manufacturer of
15-inch engine lathes.
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Obituary of Emil von Wyck pg. 72 (1912)
Emil Von Wyck, of the Von Wyck Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, died
suddenly' in his office, July 11. aged forty-seven years.
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The Iron age, Volume 91, Issues 19-26
May 13, 1915
Lathe' Von Wyck Tool Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Describes a 16-in. engine
lathe with patented apron gear feed. Thit tool is built with a
three-step cone pulley and double back gears and also with a four-step
cone pulley and a single back gear. Illustrations of both types of lathe
are given, together with views of the apron, the taper attachment and a
turret which can be supplied for mounting on the ways or the carriage.
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Southern hardware, Volumes 73-74 - Page 24
1915
... recently organized in Cincinnati by interests connected with the
Cincinnati Iron and Steel Company, has taken over the Von Wyck Machine Tool
Company, ...
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Just to the left of the cross-slide dial is the rod that activated the power cross-feed. You pulled it out when the clutch was tightened and it de-activated the carriage drive geartrain. The apron clutch was about 8" diameter cast iron cone clutch that looked to be lapped and polished cast iron. It was in beautiful condition with nary a scratch on it.
I had the apron off only once in all the years I owned it to remove the feed rod so I could cut a new keyway in the 8 foot long feed rod. The old keyway was just worn out in about a 3 foot section. The filister head screws holding the apron to the saddle were 1/2-12 thread.
I lived with this lathe from 1979 to 2005 when I passed it on to a younger lad in Ohio to take into the 21st century. I could wax poetic about this lathe and I'm sure it wouldn't be snickered at in this forum
. I do miss it. The drill chuck is a 3/4" ball bearing British patented Cardinal chuck. I had to slightly modify a Jacobs key to fit it. I still have the drill chuck.
Spindle thread: 2 1/8-6
Spindle taper: 5MT stub
The Von Wyck was said to have a patented carriage drive. It wasn't a Von Wyck patent but the Le Blond patent. The company was originally called Roach & Von Wyck. Mr. Roach was the milling machine foreman from the Le Blond company.
The Von Wyck originally had a belt drive feed rod. Somewhere along the way mine was updated to a grear drive feed rod. It cut beautiful threads.
The nameplate from my old Von Wyck. Notice there was something scrapped off before "Von Wyck".
It was "Roach &".
This nameplate from a Von Wyck in Canada shows the later name. Cope's book, American Lathe Builders: 1810-1910 says Von Wyck was formed in 1903 from Roach & Von Wyck and that a quick-change gearbox was introduced in 1908. This pretty much dates my old lathe to 1903 as it was made during the tenure of Mr.Roach and Emil Von Wyck and still in inventory during the transition.
Steel and iron, Volume 70
January, 1902
The Roach & Von Wyck Machine Tool Company has been organized by W. H.
Roach and E. Von Wyck, of this city. The company has located at 1625
Blue Rock street, Cummitisville, (Cincinnati suburb) and will build an
improved 15 inch engine lathe. Mr. Roach recently resigned as
Superintendent of the milling machine department of the R. K. Le Blond
Machine Too Company, this city.
************************************************************************
International Motor Cyclopaedia
SPORT, INDUSTRY and TRADE
Automobiles, Motorcycles, Motorboats and Aeronautics
YEAR BOOK' MARCH. 1908 TO MARCH, 1909
Von Wyck Machine Tool Co. Special automobile machinery.
**********************************************************************
Machinery, Volume 19, Issues 1-6
edited by Lester Gray French
September, 1912
Clifford P. Kern, formerly president of the Kern Machine Tool Co.,
Hamilton, Ohio, has disposed of his interest In that company and
purchased the Von Wyck Machine Tool Co. of Cincinnati, manufacturer of
15-inch engine lathes.
***************************************************************
Obituary of Emil von Wyck pg. 72 (1912)
Emil Von Wyck, of the Von Wyck Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, died
suddenly' in his office, July 11. aged forty-seven years.
************************************************************************
The Iron age, Volume 91, Issues 19-26
May 13, 1915
Lathe' Von Wyck Tool Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Describes a 16-in. engine
lathe with patented apron gear feed. Thit tool is built with a
three-step cone pulley and double back gears and also with a four-step
cone pulley and a single back gear. Illustrations of both types of lathe
are given, together with views of the apron, the taper attachment and a
turret which can be supplied for mounting on the ways or the carriage.
************************************************************************
Southern hardware, Volumes 73-74 - Page 24
1915
... recently organized in Cincinnati by interests connected with the
Cincinnati Iron and Steel Company, has taken over the Von Wyck Machine Tool
Company, ...
************************************************************************
Just to the left of the cross-slide dial is the rod that activated the power cross-feed. You pulled it out when the clutch was tightened and it de-activated the carriage drive geartrain. The apron clutch was about 8" diameter cast iron cone clutch that looked to be lapped and polished cast iron. It was in beautiful condition with nary a scratch on it.
I had the apron off only once in all the years I owned it to remove the feed rod so I could cut a new keyway in the 8 foot long feed rod. The old keyway was just worn out in about a 3 foot section. The filister head screws holding the apron to the saddle were 1/2-12 thread.
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