Lathe ID help?

[madmodifier]

Hi All,

Picked up a new lathe this weekend. Cleaned out an estate sale. Problem is that I cannot seem to find a manufacture anywhere on the machine. Hoping I can post a few pics and someone will recognize it.

Searching around just now I wonder if it is and F.E. Reed or an F.S. Perkins Co.

Mods, if this is not the right area please move the post.






Thanks,
Ben

 

[MAKEITOUTOFWOOD]

Sorry I don't know. But looks like a nice old piece of iron. Good luck with it.

 

[ThinWoodsman]

Lots of T-slots on that carriage. Maybe an old turret lathe?

 

[madmodifier]

Lots of T-slots on that carriage. Maybe an old turret lathe?

I guess I thought turret lathes usually did not have tail stocks. I have seen several lathes with t slots in the carriage, not that unusual especially on the older machines.

 

[markba633csi]

An early Star perhaps?

 

[ThinWoodsman]

They usually have the turret in place of the tailstock, but that could have been swapped out.

Looking more closely, though, most of the T-slots are only on the apron side of the carriage. A bit odd, maybe added on by a previous owner.

 

[madmodifier]

They usually have the turret in place of the tailstock, but that could have been swapped out.

Looking more closely, though, most of the T-slots are only on the apron side of the carriage. A bit odd, maybe added on by a previous owner.

I believe there are t slots on the non apron side but they run parallel not perpendicular like the apron side.

 

[madmodifier]

An early Star perhaps?

Ill check in to that, thanks!

Edit:

Looking more at Seneca Falls lathes on Vintage Machinery I am not seeing any that have the feed and lead screws. The 1/2 nut handle looks right though.

 

[benmychree]

Definitely not a turret lathe, older lathes commonly had T slots on the carriage because they were commonly used for boring work that was carried by the carriage, before the common use of horizontal boring mills or milling machines.

 

[CluelessNewB]

I think you are on the right track looking at machines from the Worcester MA area. L. Robbins, Robbins Machine Co. , Prentice Bros, and P. Blaisdell & Co. are some others. I believe there was a a bit of industrial incest going on there at the turn of the century.

This L. Robbins machine shows some similarities:

http://www.vintagemachinery.org/photoindex/detail.aspx?id=18514