Odd tailstock attachment

[benmychree]

A similar device was used on turret lathes for centering long round stock, instead of the center shown, a center drill was used in its place.

I wrote this up yesterday, but forgot to post it --- Hence my duplication of Jim Sehr's post, I had one for my W&S #4 turret lathe, but never had occasion to use it.

 

[Jimsehr]

A similar device was used on turret lathes for centering long round stock, instead of the center shown, a center drill was used in its place.

I wrote this up yesterday, but forgot to post it --- Hence my duplication of Jim Sehr's post, I had one for my W&S #4 turret lathe, but never had occasion to use it.

benmychree
W&S made some great turrets . I remember when I was in the army I was asked to go to the tank company’s machine shop to see if I knew what this strange machine was. It was a # 5 W&S turret that no one knew how to use. Had all the goodies to go with it.

 

[benmychree]

I also had a #5 W&S ram type turret lathe that I bought from the shop where I apprenticed; I only wanted it for the bar feed and other accessories that would fit my #4, I then sold the #5 at a profit. I still have two die heads from the deal to sell, they are J&L tangent chaser die heads with all the chasers included and the sharpening fixtures.

 

[TechNova]

benmychree
W&S made some great turrets . I remember when I was in the army I was asked to go to the tank company’s machine shop to see if I knew what this strange machine was. It was a # 5 W&S turret that no one knew how to use. Had all the goodies to go with it.

I worked for a big manufacturer that had alot of W&S turret lathes in production in the late 90's. Some had War Resources Board labels on them.
I never ran one but time studied them alot.

 

[benmychree]

I liked the simple construction of them, Some other machines, like Bardons & Oliver had enclosed gearboxes on the saddle and ram, good places for water to accumulate and mess things up, W&S had open gearboxes lubed with grease. I did also like the W&S preselector speed change as opposed to the lever change boxes. The preselect had a tower that rotated with speed change that had numbers that could be set in notches in its top rim that could be keyed to operations to be performed it also had a diameter to SFM calculator for each speed, I think they had a 16 speed headstock. They were at least as tough as a government Mule!

 

[Jimsehr]

I liked the simple construction of them, Some other machines, like Bardons & Oliver had enclosed gearboxes on the saddle and ram, good places for water to accumulate and mess things up, W&S had open gearboxes lubed with grease. I did also like the W&S preselector speed change as opposed to the lever change boxes. The preselect had a tower that rotated with speed change that had numbers that could be set in notches in its top rim that could be keyed to operations to be performed it also had a diameter to SFM calculator for each speed, I think they had a 16 speed headstock. They were at least as tough as a government Mule!

benmychree
I still have a step collet that takes pie jaw pads that hold up to 6 inch parts made by W&S that fits a # 4 or # 5 turret lathe. Much safer than getting your hands close to a spinning 3 jaw chuck. operates just like standard collets. I think pic shows collet chuck that fits #4&5 W&S spindle.

Often I would make emergency soft pads on the mill, With pads thicker than standard. With shapes not common . Like heads of big rod ends with heads 2 or 3 inches
and stems 1 inch dia into milled pocket to finish the bores. You could load next part in seconds.
jimsehr

 

[benmychree]

benmychree
I still have a step collet that takes pie jaw pads that hold up to 6 inch parts made by W&S that fits a # 4 or # 5 turret lathe. Much safer than getting your hands close to a spinning 3 jaw chuck. operates just like standard collets.
jimsehr

Mine has collets, that is, a master collet and pads up to 2" and 3 and 4 jaw chucks plus quite a lot of tooling, we did relatively short runs of production of many products that we made for the wine industry, the new owner of the business has largely gone to CNC production of y=the same items and others that he has developed on his own, he still uses a #2 Bardons & Oliver hand screw machine for a few of the products.