I picked up my new (to me) lathe today, and got some pictures of the lathe and the tooling/accessories that came with it. It has a Craftsman 4-jaw chuck mounted on it.
Here it is:
The gears look good, no chips, breaks or repairs:
The ways look pretty good, for a 1970's machine:
And this is the collection of stuff that was in the drawers of the old metal desk the lathe was bolted to. There is a lot of mill tools in there, collets, cutters, etc., a Bison 3-jaw chuck, a Craftsman 3-jaw, face plate, steady rest, milling attachment, drill bits, tailstock collets, magnetic bases for measuring tools, a set of adjustable reams, and there is even a set of Delta 4" joiner blades in the original box.
This desk was obviously a catch-all.
This set of adjustable reams is probably worth half of the $600 I paid for the whole thing:
That biggest one goes to just over 1"
I have no idea what these are? They are made by Van Norman, and have a keyed shaft center like a milling tool cutter. They have a body of some kind of hard rubber/plastic, with sharpened vanes at what appears to be a 45 degree angle. Maybe for chamfering the ID of tubing?
I may "eBay" them if I don't discover a use.
What is notably absent is a tool post or any kind of lathe tool bits. Someone must have kept all of that for their 'other" lathe.
Now I need to find the stuff that I need that wasn't included.
A milling cutter tool holder
A tool post
Tool Bits/cutters
Here it is:
The gears look good, no chips, breaks or repairs:
The ways look pretty good, for a 1970's machine:
And this is the collection of stuff that was in the drawers of the old metal desk the lathe was bolted to. There is a lot of mill tools in there, collets, cutters, etc., a Bison 3-jaw chuck, a Craftsman 3-jaw, face plate, steady rest, milling attachment, drill bits, tailstock collets, magnetic bases for measuring tools, a set of adjustable reams, and there is even a set of Delta 4" joiner blades in the original box.
This desk was obviously a catch-all.
This set of adjustable reams is probably worth half of the $600 I paid for the whole thing:
That biggest one goes to just over 1"
I have no idea what these are? They are made by Van Norman, and have a keyed shaft center like a milling tool cutter. They have a body of some kind of hard rubber/plastic, with sharpened vanes at what appears to be a 45 degree angle. Maybe for chamfering the ID of tubing?
I may "eBay" them if I don't discover a use.
What is notably absent is a tool post or any kind of lathe tool bits. Someone must have kept all of that for their 'other" lathe.
Now I need to find the stuff that I need that wasn't included.
A milling cutter tool holder
A tool post
Tool Bits/cutters
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