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What Did You Buy Today?
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That is a beautiful lathe. Looks to be in amazingly good condition. Congratulations on the find.
Would love to have one some day.
So this was one of them things where I need another lathe like a hole in the head because I already have a monarch 16cy X54 but it has issues but it does all work and I got a ton of stuff with it and I saw this one on Craigslist and called the guy up on a whim and next thing you know I’m taking a trip to get another lathe this one will swing 20-1/2” and will hold 6 tenths over 16” for a machine that was made in 1948 I called that pretty good and it came with a 6-jaw buck chuck ,carriage stop ,live center and some tool holders the DRO only works in one axis,I think it’s got a bad reader hell it even has the original work light
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Congratulations on your new lathe.
@Richard King 2 posted the following link recently.
It's a vintage (May 1948), 36 page brochure on the Monarch Series 60.
It shows options and accessories that I'd never seen before.
So i called and ordered a manual as this lathe didn’t come with one another 75 bucks and I got the original build sheet for this lathe and originally it came with a collet chuck and it had a air tracer attachment and that would explain why I have another dove tail slide bolted down back behind the tool post
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@DAM 79
Great machine. I'm green with envy. I love that you can still get a manual and build sheet after 70+ years.
At first blush, it seems incongruous to me that a 20" lathe was ordered with a collet chuck. The original owner probably had a specific production purpose (which is consistent with the tracer). Making large pullies (mounted on a mandrel) for instance.
The tailstock on the Series 60 brings a smile to my face. The TS quill diameter and the mass and form of the TS body just look up to any work the headstock wants to do. It makes me smile because of the contrast between that tailstock and the typical Chicom hobby lathe (which often look like an afterthought relegated to a junior designer).
Again, Congratulations.
Great machine. I'm green with envy. I love that you can still get a manual and build sheet after 70+ years.
At first blush, it seems incongruous to me that a 20" lathe was ordered with a collet chuck. The original owner probably had a specific production purpose (which is consistent with the tracer). Making large pullies (mounted on a mandrel) for instance.
The tailstock on the Series 60 brings a smile to my face. The TS quill diameter and the mass and form of the TS body just look up to any work the headstock wants to do. It makes me smile because of the contrast between that tailstock and the typical Chicom hobby lathe (which often look like an afterthought relegated to a junior designer).
Again, Congratulations.
Thanks and yes I agree the original owner got this lathe for a specific job and or production run and that’s why it’s surprising that is in such great shape the guy I got it from said he found it not 10 mins away from where he lived and that the owner had passed away and that he got it from where he worked with that being said after I got it home and went thru it there was a few little things wrong like the saddle locking bolt was broke that was a easy fix after that it was a lot of cleaning to get it how it looks now I also fixed the coolant pump so all that works just would have to do some piping other then that everything else works fine and everything moves freely and smooth I’m still getting used to running a lathe like this I’ve never had one with this much power (it has a 10 Hp motor ) it seems like it can really take a cut and remove some material if you wanted to
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lovely lathe! Must have taken a bit more work to bring home than a micrometer though....