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This is my first post here, Im just a hobbymachinist, but I have an engineering background in controls and instrumentation and I grew up on a farm, so I love old machines, Ive been doing the cnc thing for years but took a break for a while and lo and behold, I just found this little lathe, and no one knows anything about it. Ive searched everywhere and cant even find the company history.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Its a 9x14 approximately, no chuck, the nose has a 12TPI x 1.5 in. thread and the spindle is a 4NS taper with a collet closer. The moter is a Fuji, 400 watt 4 pole 3 phase with a clutch activated by what I thought was a foot brake when I first found it.
Even Tony at the lathes.UK site has never seen one like this. I eventually ended up buying a box of 70 collets for 450 bucks, because they are rare and I figured some wouldn't work. I eventually cleaned them up and have around 50 good collets for it now, and 20 of the slightly larger variety Rivetts I guess I'll sell.
Anyway, hello to all, any help or comments would be nice.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Its a 9x14 approximately, no chuck, the nose has a 12TPI x 1.5 in. thread and the spindle is a 4NS taper with a collet closer. The moter is a Fuji, 400 watt 4 pole 3 phase with a clutch activated by what I thought was a foot brake when I first found it.
Even Tony at the lathes.UK site has never seen one like this. I eventually ended up buying a box of 70 collets for 450 bucks, because they are rare and I figured some wouldn't work. I eventually cleaned them up and have around 50 good collets for it now, and 20 of the slightly larger variety Rivetts I guess I'll sell.
Anyway, hello to all, any help or comments would be nice.