Shot in the dark here: Grandson's buddy picked up this lathe, trying to identify it. Anybody?
- - - At the back of the shop large electric motors powered the overhead shafts.
Probably a retrofit from steam. Building was too far from the river to have been water driven.
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Hi Gary,
as the machine shop was in Baraboo perhaps it's lineshafts were originally powered by a 12-clown treadmill?
Any of you lathe guys ever do anything like this? Back when I was in school , I took a metal shop class. I made a ball peen hammer on the lathe with a metal handle that had a knurled grip and it screwed into the head of the hammer, anyways...I wanted to polish the handle with a strip of emery cloth, while it was spinning in the lathe.
The instructor told me to hole the strip of emery cloth with two hands, one on each end of the strip.
Well of course I didn’t, I folded it over and pinched the two ends together with one hand and was running it back and forth on that spinning handle when suddenly that emery cloth bit and rolled up on that handle in a nano second, pulling my fingers in with it. It smashed my thumbnail so fast and made a huge blood blister under the nail.
All I got was a “ I told you not to do that! “ from the instructor.
Ahhhh the good ole days. Don't know for sure, but I doubt they would even allow a lathe in shop class these days. Open moving parts with kids around.All I got was a “ I told you not to do that! “ from the instructor.
Ahhhh the good ole days. Don't know for sure, but I doubt they would even allow a lathe in shop class these days. Open moving parts with kids around.
I am happy to see here in Arizona that there are community colleges springing up all over that are geared towards vocational education, aircraft maintenance, automotive, carpentry, electrician, CAD design, medical technicians, machinists and on and on. It’s about time that we realize not every kid is cut out for University.
- - - Spent just short of 45 years of my working life repairing and maintaining heavy equipment in a quarry and with help from friends and family built the hose I live in and never had a mortgage so I guess I showed them! But still have to wonder what I could have done if I had real training in those fields.
Lucky for me not too many young guys want to do this.. SecurityLearning to operate that stuff had to be a steep learning curve! It looks pretty intimidating!