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Greetings, I have inherited my Father's wonderful Clausing-Colchester 13x36 lathe. See the attached image. This has been in his workshop in the San Diego area since the late '60s. Before that I understand it was in the tool and die shop at the aerospace company where he worked. My request is fairly specific. But I would be delighted to read any background info that any Clausing expert may wish to provide. The current situation is that I plan to move the lathe, and its companion Hardinge TM/UM mill, from San Diego to the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. I have an 18 foot flatbed car-hauler wood deck trailer with roughly a 5000 pound useful payload capacity. I understand the Hardinge is little under 1000 pounds weight. I found that valuable nugget in the Hardinge section of Hobby-Machinist and that is the motivation for this post. Can one of you give a decent estimate of the weight of the lathe? All of this information speaks to how many trips I will need to make and how I plan to unload in New Mexico.
I used these tools as a teenager for for a variety of projects and would like to keep them in the family.
Photograph taken a couple of years ago.
Here is the Hardinge. FYI, the casting on the vertical head says "EKLING-"... The remainder is obscured by the block-and-tackle my Dad put on to allow him to adjust the head angle on his own. It has been modified with a very nice variable speed DC motor on the horizontal axis.
I used these tools as a teenager for for a variety of projects and would like to keep them in the family.
Photograph taken a couple of years ago.
Here is the Hardinge. FYI, the casting on the vertical head says "EKLING-"... The remainder is obscured by the block-and-tackle my Dad put on to allow him to adjust the head angle on his own. It has been modified with a very nice variable speed DC motor on the horizontal axis.