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View attachment 365175Possibly WW1

Looks great! What is it?

 

[Braeden P]

I dont think my lathe was a war machine because it was made in 1941 and we entered ww2 in December of 1941 so it could be made before the war and it has no war tag or excessive wear but it was used to machine brass parts because it has brass chips packed everywhere.

 

[cathead]

Looks great! What is it?

Springfield "Ideal" Lathe

 

[hman]

Absolutely beautiful!

 

[Ultradog MN]

I have two war time machines.
My Midway Millmaster was built in March of 42.
Jimmy Doolittle and his boys were training hard to make short take-offs then and aside from Doolittle himself, None of them knew what they were training for or where they were going.
Also my recently purchased Monarch 12CK. It was built 2 months later during the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea which was the first check on the Japanese advancement into the South Pacific.
My Monarch has a crack at the bottom of the base under the headstock which has been welded. Probably a moving accident but I like to imagine it was aboard a ship that took a shell from a Japanese cruiser or a Long Lance torpedo from a destroyer at the battle of Tassafaronga or some such and survived the day to make it home for repairs.

 

[Janderso]

I have two war time machines.
My Midway Millmaster was built in March of 42.
Jimmy Doolittle and his boys were training hard to make short take-offs then and aside from Doolittle himself, None of them knew what they were training for or where they were going.
Also my recently purchased Monarch 12CK. It was built 2 months later during the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea which was the first check on the Japanese advancement into the South Pacific.
My Monarch has a crack at the bottom of the base under the headstock which has been welded. Probably a moving accident but I like to imagine it was aboard a ship that took a shell from a Japanese cruiser or a Long Lance torpedo from a destroyer at the battle of Tassafaronga or some such and survived the day to make it home for repairs.

I doubt they would believe someone who said, yeah and you are gonna take off from an aircraft carrier!