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Perhaps someone can fill in any blanks ( Robert D ?) i'm interested in finding out about the history/origins of my Sphere lathe
I started to show my 13 yr old daughter all of the MOLO was still extremely inportant even to day almost 80 years after the book was published .
On flicking to the tables at the back on page 225 there are the liquid measures ... Now we ( she & I ) have been to hell and back trying to convert USA cookery recipes on the internet in to British equivalents or better still to metric .
As I explained about measurements we rarely hear of these day's I saw the sentence " The US gallon contains ..... blah blah bla etc. etc. . "
It struck me that the tables are including imperial liquid measures for the weight of a british gallon is 8 x 1.25 = 10 pounds whereas an American one I found by the rhyme of " a pints a pound the world around " this means the US gallon is short measure at only 8 pounds , thought the MOLO book say's 8.345 pounds when water is at it's maximum density . ( Our rhyme is a pint of pure water weights a pound and a quarter , at sea level ,at 60 oF .
If anyone else has the 1937 edition ( price one dollar ) would you be kind enough to check your page 225 to see if both American & British liquid measurements are shown / offered .
As I've read & reread the manual several times it seems that much of it has been especialy written for the British market as none of the words are spelt in the modern American way .
Example ..... " Colour " in the MOLO is the British spelling , where as Color is the US spelling.
If I can prove that the MOLO is uniquely written for the UK market I can perhaps use that to find out a few other things .
The company that handled the purchase sales of my machine in approx 1943 to 1944 was the Acorn machine tool company 1936 limited of 612 , 614, 616 High road ,Chiswick , London W4 .
I'm wondering if the fact that the date of the limited company registration is one year before the Atlas press co copyright can be used to dig deep in old records here in the UK to find any further info on the Sphere model I have which is very similar to a 10 inch throw , back gear lathe made by Atlas about 1942 . There appears to be a line of thought that the Sphere is a copy of the Atlas version but I keep fin ding all manner of different things ..so far the only things at I can find that are proveable American is most of The morse taper drills are of US origin made in Cincinnati and e the three Jacobs three jaw chucks .... pin , 0 to 1/4" and 0 to 5/8 " or so are also made in the USA .
Please don't go to lathes UK for I know the info that Tony the site owner has .
I'm trying to go a slightly different deeper route .
I started to show my 13 yr old daughter all of the MOLO was still extremely inportant even to day almost 80 years after the book was published .
On flicking to the tables at the back on page 225 there are the liquid measures ... Now we ( she & I ) have been to hell and back trying to convert USA cookery recipes on the internet in to British equivalents or better still to metric .
As I explained about measurements we rarely hear of these day's I saw the sentence " The US gallon contains ..... blah blah bla etc. etc. . "
It struck me that the tables are including imperial liquid measures for the weight of a british gallon is 8 x 1.25 = 10 pounds whereas an American one I found by the rhyme of " a pints a pound the world around " this means the US gallon is short measure at only 8 pounds , thought the MOLO book say's 8.345 pounds when water is at it's maximum density . ( Our rhyme is a pint of pure water weights a pound and a quarter , at sea level ,at 60 oF .
If anyone else has the 1937 edition ( price one dollar ) would you be kind enough to check your page 225 to see if both American & British liquid measurements are shown / offered .
As I've read & reread the manual several times it seems that much of it has been especialy written for the British market as none of the words are spelt in the modern American way .
Example ..... " Colour " in the MOLO is the British spelling , where as Color is the US spelling.
If I can prove that the MOLO is uniquely written for the UK market I can perhaps use that to find out a few other things .
The company that handled the purchase sales of my machine in approx 1943 to 1944 was the Acorn machine tool company 1936 limited of 612 , 614, 616 High road ,Chiswick , London W4 .
I'm wondering if the fact that the date of the limited company registration is one year before the Atlas press co copyright can be used to dig deep in old records here in the UK to find any further info on the Sphere model I have which is very similar to a 10 inch throw , back gear lathe made by Atlas about 1942 . There appears to be a line of thought that the Sphere is a copy of the Atlas version but I keep fin ding all manner of different things ..so far the only things at I can find that are proveable American is most of The morse taper drills are of US origin made in Cincinnati and e the three Jacobs three jaw chucks .... pin , 0 to 1/4" and 0 to 5/8 " or so are also made in the USA .
Please don't go to lathes UK for I know the info that Tony the site owner has .
I'm trying to go a slightly different deeper route .
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before I could make any sense of it.