Who’s older; You or your lathe?

[great white]

Just a fun type of topic that came to me today thinking about when my Atlas was built.

It’s got a good 13 years on me.

Which I guess means it should have more experience than I do, so why don’t my projects come out better? Seems like its not holding up its side of our relationship!



How about you?

 

[682bear]

I was born in 1973... my oldest lathe was born in 1917... my newest was early to mid 1950's...

I think the only metalworking machine I own that is younger than me is my Enco knee mill (1989)... unless you consider bench grinders and other smaller 'support' equipment.

-Bear

 

[Aaron_W]

Both, or it depends. I have several lathes, some are much younger, some about the same age and a few much older. I have a watchmakers lathe which best guess is 110-130 years old, I have a Taig that is only about 2 years old, and a Sherline that is about 6, all the rest are somewhere in between, 1930s to early 1990s.

 

[NCjeeper]

Let's see. I was born in 1965.
Enco lathe made 2004
Monarch lathe made 1964
Jet lathe made 1980.

 

[RJSakowski]

My anvil is older then me. Does that count?

 

[mmcmdl]

Let's see. I was born in 1965.
Enco lathe made 2004
Monarch lathe made 1964
Jet lathe made 1980.

Is the Enco a 1340 Tom ?

 

[NCjeeper]

It is.

 

[pontiac428]

My lathe's from Brazil and under 20. I guess I've still got it.

 

[KC36330]

my lathe is older, but i hasn't had to work as hard as i have over the years so it's in better shape then i am sadly.

 

[mmcmdl]

It is.

Do you happen to have a pic of the front of it handy ?