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  • Nicholas Carey
    Flâneur • Seattle
    • Feb 2001
    • 20401
    #1

    Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

    [Dundee is threatened by a machinist with a lathe]
    Sue Charlton: Mick, give him your wallet.
    Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: What for?
    Sue Charlton: He's got a lathe.
    Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: [chuckling] That's not a lathe... [draws his lathe] ...Now this...this is a lathe.
    [Machinist and his friends run away]
    Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: Just kids having fun. You alright?



    From Seattle's CL today at http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/tls/2520208909.html
    FOR SALE

    A BRADFORD LATHE
    will turn a 30" dia. by about 14'/15' is 21' overall has a 4 jaw chuck & 4 speeds 3 phase

    3000.00




    Looks to be something like this one for sale at http://www.teranmachinery.com/detall...ia.php?ID=3681 (Lots more pictures here):

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    • Jim Ledger
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2006
      • 9806
      #2
      Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

      Three phase....damn!

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        • botebum
          Banned
          • Sep 2002
          • 12018
          #3
          Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

          Not exactly for the pen turners, huh?

          Doug

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            • bobbys
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2009
              • 30720
              #4
              Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

              My friend has one like that in his shed, Without 3 phase its pretty useless.

              Still i want one

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                • Mrleft8
                  Banned
                  • Feb 2000
                  • 31864
                  #5
                  Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                  Dennis Elliott has a hell of a cool lathe he had custom made for his turnings. Stopped by to pick up a few pieces of his for a show I was currating back in...97...98. He allowed me to watch a little bit, but he really doesn't like people in the shop when he's working.
                  8AM, chips and ribbons flying, and slamming down a Budweiser can.... I asked his wife how he could drink Bud at that hour of the day, and keep working... "It's past noon in London..."
                  And yes he turns his own sticks.

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                    • Woxbox
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2006
                      • 9923
                      #6
                      Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                      Not exactly for the pen turners, huh?

                      Doug
                      Depends:

                      -Dave

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                        • Paul G.
                          Senior Member
                          • Feb 2006
                          • 2272
                          #7
                          Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...
                          polite and appropriate

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                            • Blowtorch
                              Banned
                              • Feb 2011
                              • 407
                              #8
                              Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                              Thats a big Lathe!

                              Propeller shafts?

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                                • Tylerdurden
                                  Banned
                                  • Jul 2006
                                  • 19902
                                  #9
                                  Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                                  Any of you guys worried about three phase PM me and I will help set you up. I just sold my last 25hp rotary phase converter and kept the 15 for testing equipmet as i am on single phase feed. Don't let three phase hold you back as there are huge deals on that type of equipment.

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                                    • Andrew Craig-Bennett
                                      Who?
                                      • Aug 1999
                                      • 28534
                                      #10
                                      Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                                      Go to "the two stroke crosshead engine" and click on "the semi-built crankshaft"

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                                        • Paul Pless
                                          pinko commie tree hugger
                                          • Oct 2003
                                          • 124959
                                          #11
                                          Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                                          best of craigslist: 1930s Lathe
                                          http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/398050816.html
                                          Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                                            • Canoeyawl
                                              .
                                              • Jun 2003
                                              • 37780
                                              #12
                                              Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

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                                                • Paul Pless
                                                  pinko commie tree hugger
                                                  • Oct 2003
                                                  • 124959
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                                                  Originally posted by Canoeyawl
                                                  I have an old Starrett catalog, that has a picture of similar lathe, and a set of custom outside micrometers made by Starrett to match the lathe capacity. Something like 3000 millimeters. Astounding or gimmicky???
                                                  Last edited by Paul Pless; 07-30-2011, 10:37 AM.
                                                  Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                                                    • Canoeyawl
                                                      .
                                                      • Jun 2003
                                                      • 37780
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                                                      Here's a Bullard shipboard vertical lathe, not the largest, but different.

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                                                        • Gerarddm
                                                          #RESIST
                                                          • Feb 2010
                                                          • 32558
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: Lathe? That's Not a Lathe...

                                                          I'm not sure we'd even know how to turn out large naval gunbarrels these days if we had to.

                                                          Ah,to have been the probverbial fly on the wall when the Japanese were turning Yamato's 18" tubes!. O my.
                                                          Gerard>
                                                          Albuquerque, NM

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