Show us your Logan lathes!

[jeepishgrin]

Here's my 1945 model Logan 200 Lathe. I found it on Craigslist. The guy said he bought it from a machine shop in Springfield, MO about fifteen years ago. His son's name is Logan and he had planned to clean it up for him but never did. I paid him $500 for it. It had a lot of surface rust which I've been successfully removing with Naval Jelly. Since this photo was taken, I've removed a lot of rust --- and several dirt dauber condominiums! The machine is in very good shape - no broken or worn gears. It didn't come with any threading gears. Mike

 

[JW turner]

I have two. The Powerkraft I have had about 2 yrs and just picked up the 14x40.

 

[bonneblktrk]

Got this this summer. Love it. mod 820. Serial says before 1946. It's making parts for other machines (like the Borg).

 

[joebiplane]

Well I never got the Wards /logan i had sent in here earlier, I did get aLogan 820 (circa 1945) and i will attempt to post a " Before' and several " After" shots . All it needs now is a headstock belt .
it has been a fun ( and dirty) project.

 

[Nipperdog]

This is my Logan Model 1955 11" machine the day I rescued it. The serial # gives it's birth year as 1960, and it was wearing 50 years of machine shop grunge.
It was still in fair mechanical condition so I did some adjusting and cleaning, and a splash of new paint. The headstock spindle has a 1 3/8 bore and it came with a collet closer and about 50 hardinge collets

 

[geckocycles]

model 210

Bed is SN#17450 1943 MFG model 210
Change gears are from model 1920 and from a 11” lathe
I bought this in 1980 and it was a rust bucket with just about every gear broken in the change box and bend shafts. This machine was abused big time.
I put all new gears and bearings throughout. Machined and hand scraped the bed and used Garlok under carriage to shim that back up to spec 10 years ago. This is a great machine and can hold .0003" in 4". Bought the collet closer and all gears and bearings from Logan.
2.5" solid teak bench.
I machined these 4.3" dia 4340 cable locker parts for my Suzuki Samurai. Although this was a very accurate machine it just took too long to hog out that much material at .05" max cuts so I sadly sold my baby and got a 15" x 54" Leblond with no tooling a few months ago. Now I can hog out .3" easily. Selling this was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do and I think it was my only tool I ever had to sell. I wish I could of afforded to keep it as I need a small lathe too.

 

[mranum]

I'm new here but may as well contribute some. Here are some before & after when I brought it home from Dad's shop. It sits now in a woodshop so the sludge and crud had to go. Took a while but cleaned up nicely with just a brush and parts cleaner.

 

[PIKEMAN]

Well, this is my $100 Craig's List special, a 1942 Monkey Wards 10x24. I cleaned it up, gave it a rattle can paint job, and am slowly teaching myself how to use it.

 

[Kevinb71]

This is a picture of my 1875 Logan the way it looks right now! I as a newbie bought a machine that needs alot of work. I think with all the help I've gotten from knowledgeable people that i will get it back together and it will funtion well.

 

[Sfrankland]

New member here. Just purchased this Logan Model 917 lathe. Lathe was in great shape and needed very little to get it up and running. It is a 11"x36" lathe but has an attachment that allows it to turn a 16" piece over the bed.