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I've had this Rivett watchmaker's lathe bed for several years now, and I've never been able to determine what lathe it was originally intended be for.
It's an old style with outside ways, before Rivett switched to inside ways. But it's 14" long! Otherwise, it's proportioned just like any other Rivett watchmaker's lathe bed. Too bad it's got so much rust. Might be functional, though. It's just been a doorstop since I bought it. I knew about the rust before I bought it on eBay, but I can't remember why I bought it!
You'll notice that the end with the Rivett stamp is highly polished. The eBay guy who sold it to me did that - with successive grits of polishing pads, he said - without telling me. I kind of wish he hadn't done that, but oh well.
Has anyone here ever heard of a Rivett watchmaker's lathe with a 14" barrel? I know Rivett made a lathe called the "Ideal" that took 2NS collets instead of the normal close-to-WW-sized collets, and I even saw an Ideal recently, but it had a standard 11" long bed.
Funny thing is, this lathe bed does NOT have a serial number that I can find.
Ideas welcome...
It's an old style with outside ways, before Rivett switched to inside ways. But it's 14" long! Otherwise, it's proportioned just like any other Rivett watchmaker's lathe bed. Too bad it's got so much rust. Might be functional, though. It's just been a doorstop since I bought it. I knew about the rust before I bought it on eBay, but I can't remember why I bought it!
You'll notice that the end with the Rivett stamp is highly polished. The eBay guy who sold it to me did that - with successive grits of polishing pads, he said - without telling me. I kind of wish he hadn't done that, but oh well.
Has anyone here ever heard of a Rivett watchmaker's lathe with a 14" barrel? I know Rivett made a lathe called the "Ideal" that took 2NS collets instead of the normal close-to-WW-sized collets, and I even saw an Ideal recently, but it had a standard 11" long bed.
Funny thing is, this lathe bed does NOT have a serial number that I can find.
Ideas welcome...
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