Ancient Stuff -- Vintage Lathes

[Machinist John]

1940's Veteran. Still use it. Note the faceplate, arbor and dog. Pure old school. I have all the change gears for it.

 

[ebb]

Flat belt driven? my friend had an old American that was driven by a 4 or 5inch over head belt and he rigged a 4 groove v belt pulley to the motor and the 4 belts ran on the big wheel that the flat belt used to drive. I was very old and worn out and he replaced it with a big new Summit. I have the chucks from the American still.

 

[Fuj]

I'll have to get a pic of the one in the back of the shop. Originally
it was run on an overhead line shaft, then converted to a overhead
220V motor with belt. We just use it for a hogger/rougher. Would like
to use it to make a Hotchkiss style breech gun using a 20mm case.

 

[Alexander-M]

In the early 1970's I was plant engineer at the SAC department of General Electric in Schenectady, NY. We had several 1913 vintage lathes driven by leather round belts from an overhead shaft that served several of the lathes.

Across the aisle, there were two LeBlond NC (not CNC) lathes that were programmed with punched tapes. Maintaining all of them was a challenge and a teaching opportunity.

Alex

 

[Fuj]

Here's the old timer at the back of my Son's shop. It's wired up
and runs......By the tape, it's a 11x40 Lodge & Shipley circa 1904.

 

[jackieschmidt]

My Dad bought this way back in 1965. It would work 30 feet between centers. It predates WW-1.

We stripped it down a number of years ago and now use it as a turning platform to put the fiberglass protective coating on the exposed area’s of shafts.

In my earlier years I machined a lot of shafts on this old Monarch.

It is notable that we still have a viable function for this old chunk of Cast Iron.

 

[Jon Leary]

My first lathe was a Barnes foot powered lathe with a 1/4 horse electric motor

 

[Jon Leary]

I got it for 100 bucks back in the seventys

 

[RickKr]

1941 Rivett 1020. Only about 20 ever made, most on contract with the Navy. Only know of 4 that still exist. Started out very rough. Two years to restore. A lot or remaking or repairing of worn and broken parts as there are none available anywhere. Even made patterns to have castings made and did the machining. After WWII, Rivett changed the design and size to be larger, heavier to be more competitive with Monarch 10EEs.

 

[R.Morehouse]

1941 Rivett 1020. Only about 20 ever made, most on contract with the Navy. Only know of 4 that still exist. Started out very rough. Two years to restore. A lot or remaking or repairing of worn and broken parts as there are none available anywhere. Even made patterns to have castings made and did the machining. After WWII, Rivett changed the design and size to be larger, heavier to be more competitive with Monarch 10EEs.

GREAT job, on a Very Cool machine.....

Regards
Rick

 

[Stumpy1]

Absolutely Gorgeous, Rick. Nicely done.

Frank

 

[Intheshop]

1st pic is my '47 Wade 8A.

2nd is a Blanchard duplicator lathe at Harper's Ferry.

 

[B Nettesheim]

1st pic is my '47 Wade 8A.

2nd is a Blanchard duplicator lathe at Harper's Ferry.

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I wish they made a new lathe like the one in the top picture
No gap bed, big ways, extra iron, mass!!!!

 

[wwbrown]

1941 Rivett 1020. Only about 20 ever made, most on contract with the Navy. Only know of 4 that still exist. Started out very rough. Two years to restore. A lot or remaking or repairing of worn and broken parts as there are none available anywhere. Even made patterns to have castings made and did the machining. After WWII, Rivett changed the design and size to be larger, heavier to be more competitive with Monarch 10EEs.

Beautiful restoration.