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Bought a lathe yesterday, seems to be in pretty good shape considering the s/n dates it to a 1940ish manufacture date. Trouble I am having is it is marked as a 10" catalog number 999R and I can't find any information about it online.
Of particular interest to me is a rebuild kit with wicks etc so as I reassemble I can replace all the old consumable parts to keep this machine going for another 80 years.
From what I can see so far, it has some of the features of the 9" lathes and some of the features of the larger lathes like a double wall apron. But it has the lever clutch instead of a star clutch like most of the larger lathes in the catalogs. I'm just not sure what to make of it, it appears from the catalogs I have seen to have been a mid model year introduction as there was an addendum to the 1939 catalog which spoke of several of the 9" models being discontinued and replaced with the 10" models.
I will post up some photos later as I clean it up while checking it out with a finer tooth comb.
I was able to go over it in detail yesterday and found no broken gears, no visible bed wear and just barely can feel the bed wear. Half nuts are worn but nowhere near worn out as they still have considerable flats on top of threads. Lead screw is worn similarly.Also found a metric ton of sawdust in nooks and crannies so it was either being used to turn wood or was stored uncovered in a wood shop where sawdust could settle on it. There is no rust to speak of, and it looks to be the original paint, that presents me with a conundrum, do I just clean it up and take off the years of oxidized oil, or do I strip it down and give it a fresh coat of paint. Hmmm, don't know if repainting would affect the value negatively or positively.
Of particular interest to me is a rebuild kit with wicks etc so as I reassemble I can replace all the old consumable parts to keep this machine going for another 80 years.
From what I can see so far, it has some of the features of the 9" lathes and some of the features of the larger lathes like a double wall apron. But it has the lever clutch instead of a star clutch like most of the larger lathes in the catalogs. I'm just not sure what to make of it, it appears from the catalogs I have seen to have been a mid model year introduction as there was an addendum to the 1939 catalog which spoke of several of the 9" models being discontinued and replaced with the 10" models.
I will post up some photos later as I clean it up while checking it out with a finer tooth comb.
I was able to go over it in detail yesterday and found no broken gears, no visible bed wear and just barely can feel the bed wear. Half nuts are worn but nowhere near worn out as they still have considerable flats on top of threads. Lead screw is worn similarly.Also found a metric ton of sawdust in nooks and crannies so it was either being used to turn wood or was stored uncovered in a wood shop where sawdust could settle on it. There is no rust to speak of, and it looks to be the original paint, that presents me with a conundrum, do I just clean it up and take off the years of oxidized oil, or do I strip it down and give it a fresh coat of paint. Hmmm, don't know if repainting would affect the value negatively or positively.