Left Handed Lathe

[Harry Knutz]

I often wondered, But had never seen a left handed lathe before, Here is a pic of an Enco Lathe that is left handed. I can't imagine ever getting used to that.

 

[brino]

This comes up every few years..... and the usual answer is that someone flipped the photo.

With this one I cannot zoom in enough to try reading the labels on things, but I suspect it is the same thing.....

Brian

 

[francist]

Indeed, flipped photo. The second lathe behind it is "lefthanded" as well...

 

[DavidR8]

Easy to make a right handed machine. Now it's an Enco not an Ocne

 

[Harry Knutz]

Wow! I didn't know you could do that, I am not a high tech redneck!

 

[pontiac428]

You beat me to it. Now the CNCs in the background are right handed, too.

Nardini made their carriages in a right and left hand version, swapping the positions of the feed controls and the long travel handwheel on the skirt. I didn't know it would be a preference, let alone a factory option.

 

[francist]

Some of the Harrisons and Colchesters are like that too, handwheel is on the opposite end of the apron. I've heard it referred to as a UK preference but I don't know if that's true or not.

 

[Jim F]

We have 2 Clausing Colchesters at work, 1-15" and 1-17", one, I think the 15", is LH. The carriage controls are different.

 

[benmychree]

The right hand handwheel is quite common on European machines, especially if they have gap beds, I guess it makes sense so far as getting your hand burnt or cut by chips, If you were raised with one, I guess it would feel natural, but if not it would take a lot of getting used to and feel clumsy at best.

 

[cathead]

I'm left handed but really am more comfortable with the usual configuration.