I finally got a digital camera to take some photo's of my
1930's Le Blond Regal Lathe.
Kurt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtvara/?saved=1
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I finally got a digital camera to take some photo's of my
1930's Le Blond Regal Lathe.
Kurt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtvara/?saved=1
neat old lathe.. i had a old Henley lathe with a grear box like yours has. the one i have now you move the flat belt for more or less speed on the pulleys
I've got a nice modern Pratt & Whitney from early 1940s that I was told was probably on a Navy ship!!!!hope it was a ship that did a lot of damage to the enemy, but even if it was just a hohoom boat---they were a part of our patriotic history and I'm damn proud to have it!!!!
What is the transmission on there from, Kurt? Very interesting lathe, and I think I remember seeing it when I visited you that time.
When I worked at the marina they had a big old lathe that came off of a WWII battleship, and when they were cleaning up they offered it to me for free. I seriously considered it, but couldn't figure out how to move it. When they finally found a buyer for it our forklift actually did a reverse wheelie trying to pick it up. We had to use our 20 ton travel lift to put it on the guys trailer. It almost flattened the tires on his trailer when we set it down. I should have taken it for scrap value alone, but it was in good working order and would have been a shame to scrap.
Don
So do you change the speed of the lathe by changing gears? lol
Yes you do, Fun4me.
You know Don The Lathe came out of a big Factory where they had a bunch of these things lined up in rows. They used them for working on boats planes trains and automotive. This is what I was told by the guy I got it from and he had his own automotive refurbushing company for about 20 years. He said this is the way he got it from the Factory when they where selling off old machines. They added the plate on the side that holds the motor and the trany. then they added another plate to the bottom of the feet on the heavy end. I think that was to balance it better since they added so much weight to the one side of the Lathe. I was told by a very old freind that the trany was a old 2 speed, from what I am not sure I will give him a call tomarrow and ask him what it is from. You probably can not tell from the photo's but it also has 3 big belts that go from the trany down to the axle behind the chuck, or what ever it's called that turns the chuck anyway. Maybe it's called the drum I am not sure about that. Oh this is the funny part I forgot about I paid a guy
3 hundred to move it about 50 miles for me. HE! HE! HE! We put a furniture dolly under the light end and a big floor jack under the heavy end and pulled it up on a trailer with a long chain I had brought and my suburban.
This guy actully thought he was gonna pull this thing on his trailer with a cheap come along. That lasted about 2 seconds and it exploded. HE! HE! Then he was scared to go over 30 miles and hour with it.
But for good reason, it buckeled his trailer bent his axles and bent his cheap steel rims. Yep I got my money's worth. HE! HE! HE! I had asked him are you sure this trailer is strong enough???
He said ya no problem I've moved car on this before. They must have been honda's or or something small HE! HE! HE!
Kurt
The reason I asked about the transmission is that it looks like one from some old car. The other reason I passed on taking the free one was because someone on here posted about how a guy he worked with got his tie caught in the lathe at work and it killed him instantly. :eek: I didn't want that anywhere around my Sons, we get hurt enough as it is when working in the shop.
Don
I hear ya Don; I have heard and seen the same thing. You can not ware loose clothing around this kind of stuff it will drag you in. The handle that runs along the top of my machine was also added to it. And it was added just in case you were at the other end of the machine and something goes wrong. It shuts off the power switch at the other end of the Lathe. This thing also have some car points in a box where the switch is.
And you can see them sparking when it is on to, weird HUH!!!
Kurt
the trans /gear box was a stander deal on the old lathes like i said i had a henley lathe with one they could been from a car but mine never had any thing on it like a name on the box . for belts or flat belts well yes you can get hung up in a belts but if that did not get you the dog drivers or chuck or part you are turning can fly out or drive screw feed gears can pull you in there not toys they deserve respect just like a gun any one wearing a tie on or any long chain or loose stuff around any mill. drill press or lathe is asken for trouble . when i was in school kids had long hair the teacher told stories about kids getting hair rip out with a smile on there face .you can mash a fingers just getting the chuck off the machine
Nice piece of machinery there. Have you wipped up any parts on it yet? I have been seriously considering a mill and a lathe for next year. My mind is just racing with fabrication ideas.
Wow thats huge !!! I love to see old lathes, must be some kind of fetish :LOL:
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Originally Posted by vara4
really would you like to see my caroll jamieson flat belt lathe :DQuote:
Originally Posted by roadster32
Any relation to Jenna :LOL:
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Originally Posted by pat mccarthy
well shure she is:HMMM:she a older girl . noah used it to build the ark i was told :3dSMILE:Quote:
Originally Posted by roadster32
Sure,
Let's see some more pics of old lathes. That sure looks like a truck transmission. I wonder if the lathe was converted from a line shaft driven machine?
Jack.
well mine did not have NO REV his may have mine did not but there was companys that made boxs for the flat old line shaft machines. i had 4 flat belt machine s that were on a line shafts at one time in its lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by Jack F
Ya this does not have a rev either Pat.
It's just a little two speed, I am not sure who made it.
I did find some casting numbers and letters on it and took some better photo's of it and also wrote them down so you could see exactly what they were.
My buddie is up in Alabama for a few weeks so I could not get in touch with him.
Here is the new photo's on the site below.
Kurt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtvara/?saved=1
yep your is not like the one that was on my old Henley lathe as it did look like a old gear box there was some casting that hook it up to the motor you could not see my input .but on yours you can see the input and the case ears and a pillow block to hold the input so it is a home grow deal they may have lock out 3 and REv but who cares what it looks like it works :)
I hear you Pat; There is a metal upside down cup where the stifter goes in to the trany.
That metal cup has a straite slot in it, so it can only go forward or backward.
I think it does away with any side motion at all, thats probably how they locked out the other gears. Kurt
hey i would not worry much about it the only way to get away from it would be a new motor and a speed controller it would cost alot$$$$ and would not work any better then what you have if you were lucky
might be a warner gear 2 speed from early heavy duty truck---old guys had to split shift to go thru the gears--hard part was that you couldn't go straight thru 5 th and then shift to high but had to know the numbers and split shift between the boxes----
I ain't looking to switch anything on it I had a guy contact me about buying it last week.
I also have a 3 phase 480v motor that the guy that sold it to me, thru in when I got it.
He was not hooked up for 3 phase so he put the 2 phase 250v motor on it.
I was just showing the photo's of the trany since the other guy on here was asking about it. I figured someone on here might reconize it and tell us what it was off of.
I don't want to have to move it, when I move back out to Vegas.
Kurt
Just saw this on another site. Apparently in New Brunswick.
Springfield Machine Tool Company vintage lathe.7 foot long 5 ½ tall - $400
http://cnj.craigslist.org/tls/2114573304.html
HEY i would of bet i would never seen another drive box like mine his is the same set up on my Caroll Jamieson lathe i think the box is made by cullver wheel companyQuote:
Originally Posted by RestoRod
Well that's a good price.
Mine is about twice as long though.
kurt
I have two lathes, one is a 15"X50" Le Blond No. B-50A-53S
The Le Blond archives show it as being bought new by the U S Navy in the 40s
It was sold to a local lumber mill in 56.
I bought it in 78 from the bankrupt mill with a ton of fixtures and a taper attchment
it even came with the operations insturction book.
Does it look alot like mine???
I didn't get a steady rest but I got the follow rest.
I have seen a video how to make a better one then the one it was supossed to come with though. It use's roller bearings instead of just metal to slide on.
I could just slide the dove tail all the way up by the chuck with the follow rest though too. The guy I got it from also told me he found a 4 tooth chuck but it does not center as easy as the 3 tooth chuck. Kurt
1940 would be gear head lathe . up in the front of were my is shop the land lord has one i think it came out of a ship as well
Yes it is a gear head lathe and the best thread cutting lathe I have ever used. It has a 5 hp motor at 240 volts that weighs 180 lbs. They just don't make motors like that any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by pat mccarthy