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Sorry in advance for the long post!
Hey guys, sorry I didn’t post this weekend but I have news about the lathe. I am not an expert when it comes to determining condition but I feel this lathe is in great shape. The ways still have the original hand scraping even right near the chuck, though it is a little worn off there. I couldn’t feel any wear with my fingernail from the carriage or the tail stock and when I nip the carriage down a bit near the chuck and then crank it over to the tail stock it doesn’t bind at all but I do notice it getting ever so slightly tighter but still easy to crank. The spindle is rock solid and the spindle nose and threads are super clean. All gears are in great shape, no broken teeth or even much wear on them at all that I can notice. The lathe as well as the guy’s shop was clean (except he recently turned some wood so I vacuumed that up) and the shop was very organized, makes me happy to see that and shows that he cares. The lathe was oiled nicely and was quiet when we turned it on and the headstock didn’t get hot.
I ended up buying the lathe if you can read between the lines . And instead of $950 I paid $1200 because he had some other stuff that I thought was good to have that he didn’t want to include in the normal price. I had my little pickup truck FULL and it was making my truck sag a lot. Kinda scary but it was all good.
I had two friends help and as I was taking the lathe apart (motor, legs and stuff) they loaded my truck up with flats of misc stuff. I just went through it all and there’s a lot of stuff. Not sure how many pictures I can post but here goes. I’ll try and list stuff first.
•cast iron legs and risers
•Steady rest
•Two collet draw bars (one regular draw bar and one speed lever thing)
•Three spindle thread protectors
•Bunch of collets
•Two micrometer carriage stops (one normal and one with I think 5 different positions
•4 chucks (a 3 jaw chuck that uses the collet draw bar, 2 normal 3 jaws and a 4 jaw)
•Two face plates
•A pile of tool holders mostly Armstrong, left and right handed
•A bunch of HSS and carbide (inserts and brazed)
•A cookie tin of Jacob chucks
•a few live and dead centers
•a turret thing that goes in the tailstock?
•couple oil stones
•some tooling that says Carboloy?
•Boxes and boxes of taps, drills, endmills and reamers
•oh, and another tiny Craftsman lathe, haha
I’m sure I’m missing a lot of stuff so see below for the pictures.
Can anyone tell me what those two parts are that I’m holding in my hand?
Also, what are those Carboloy things and what kind of inserts are those Century Tool inserts?
Any idea if I can date this machine? 49804NAX10 is the serial number. So that’s the 49,804th made? N is the 9”, A is the Quick Change Gear, Friction Feed Apron and Overhead Countershaft Drive, X is special?
Thanks ALL for the help!
Hey guys, sorry I didn’t post this weekend but I have news about the lathe. I am not an expert when it comes to determining condition but I feel this lathe is in great shape. The ways still have the original hand scraping even right near the chuck, though it is a little worn off there. I couldn’t feel any wear with my fingernail from the carriage or the tail stock and when I nip the carriage down a bit near the chuck and then crank it over to the tail stock it doesn’t bind at all but I do notice it getting ever so slightly tighter but still easy to crank. The spindle is rock solid and the spindle nose and threads are super clean. All gears are in great shape, no broken teeth or even much wear on them at all that I can notice. The lathe as well as the guy’s shop was clean (except he recently turned some wood so I vacuumed that up) and the shop was very organized, makes me happy to see that and shows that he cares. The lathe was oiled nicely and was quiet when we turned it on and the headstock didn’t get hot.
I ended up buying the lathe if you can read between the lines . And instead of $950 I paid $1200 because he had some other stuff that I thought was good to have that he didn’t want to include in the normal price. I had my little pickup truck FULL and it was making my truck sag a lot. Kinda scary but it was all good.
I had two friends help and as I was taking the lathe apart (motor, legs and stuff) they loaded my truck up with flats of misc stuff. I just went through it all and there’s a lot of stuff. Not sure how many pictures I can post but here goes. I’ll try and list stuff first.
•cast iron legs and risers
•Steady rest
•Two collet draw bars (one regular draw bar and one speed lever thing)
•Three spindle thread protectors
•Bunch of collets
•Two micrometer carriage stops (one normal and one with I think 5 different positions
•4 chucks (a 3 jaw chuck that uses the collet draw bar, 2 normal 3 jaws and a 4 jaw)
•Two face plates
•A pile of tool holders mostly Armstrong, left and right handed
•A bunch of HSS and carbide (inserts and brazed)
•A cookie tin of Jacob chucks
•a few live and dead centers
•a turret thing that goes in the tailstock?
•couple oil stones
•some tooling that says Carboloy?
•Boxes and boxes of taps, drills, endmills and reamers
•oh, and another tiny Craftsman lathe, haha
I’m sure I’m missing a lot of stuff so see below for the pictures.
Can anyone tell me what those two parts are that I’m holding in my hand?
Also, what are those Carboloy things and what kind of inserts are those Century Tool inserts?
Any idea if I can date this machine? 49804NAX10 is the serial number. So that’s the 49,804th made? N is the 9”, A is the Quick Change Gear, Friction Feed Apron and Overhead Countershaft Drive, X is special?
Thanks ALL for the help!
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