Somewhere along the way I heard a saying that went something along the lines of “a truly realized man is someone who as an adult has regained the same bit of innocent passion for what he does with his energy, as a young child has.” That doesn’t mean that a real man runs around giggling as he works, it means that he does what he wants to, because he wants to, and it’s productive, builds etc. The image of an old man tinkering away in a shop comes to mind, or these guys moving around a giant lathe, playing with big toys, having fun, getting work done. Whatever problem men have going on in their lives, in moments like these, real men are in heaven. And that’s why we watch, thanks for sharing. Skål
That's a great find and I'm glad you got it in there and got it up and running. Like everybody else has said, please take the safety aspect seriously. Never wear long sleeves, always, always, always wear good safety glasses, don't leave the key in the chuck, and never wear loose clothing. You may consider putting some shielding on around things like the lead screws. As much as we joke about safety there is a place for it and I have seen someone hurt on a lathe. The power and torque they have is amazing. Preserve it, use it, be safe and enjoy it!
Young Man you struck gold with that beast. I worked in a machine shop with something similar and it was one of the most valuable pieces of equipment. Also, I just floated over from Matt's and your channel is a mechanics dream. Thanks for sharing!
I got this feeling that all that help everybody is giving Paul on safety and leveling is something he already knows more about than most that are telling him.
Just watched the video, awesome find from the past. You've probably done this, but will mention it just in case... you need to check that the bed of the lathe is square and level from one end to the other. This will help you cut long things accurately and reduce wear in the ways. Might be worth checking for wear on the ways to see where the low spots are. Anyways, hopefully there will be a follow up to this, should be fun.
That is a beast of a lathe and built to last. I love the old trans mod. Don't toss out the high speed steel cutters, carbide are good for stuff but sometimes HSS is the way to go. Congrats, any fab shop is incomplete without a lathe. Now where's your mill 🤠
A shop that size...and you 'don't have any safety glasses...'. From someone who has been to the ER to remove a splintered piece of fiberglass stuck in my eye (once), eye protection...and hearing protection, are just as important as ventilation (respirator or exhaust) protection. Any one of the three will sideline you from doing what you enjoy. Nice score on the lathe! Be safe...if not for you, do it for your family.
Stumbled on Fab Rats because I was looking for drive line ideas. Seen you use that kick ass lathe a few times. Made me think of when I was a kid and working for my Grampa’s shop. He was a tool and die maker for YEARS and I worked there for years. Ran old anchors like this all the time. Love seeing folks getting these old girls back online. Good work in all your projos, a true craftsman! I’m still in the machine shop world but on the enginerding side of things now. You learn the fundamentals and the sky is the limit. Be safe and watch yer fingers now!
That's got a nice long bed on it. Please don't leave the chuck key in the chuck They really hurt things when they go flying. Also to start and stop the feed there's a round knob on the carriage you turn to start and stop the feed. Most of the time you turn it clock wise to engage the feed and counter clock wise to disengage it. The lever you were using is just for forward, neutral and reverse of the feed screw. Have for with it.
I worked for an industrial hydrauliics engineering company. We built machinery for the offshore industry. Had our own 'inhouse' machine shop. There was 5 lathes of varying sizes, one was a monarch, built in 53, had a 30" swing and could handle 14 foot stock. If and when one went down they would always call on me to get it up and running.. We also had two Lucas horizontal mills, fine machines. I did have to rebuild the transmission on the smaller of the 2 lucas machines once. We bought an old vertical lathe once, a giant antique. Only a machinist knows just how valuable those machines are.. The 5e monarch lathe had a tracer bed on it, we never used the tracer so the boss told a couple hands to remove it, I almost fired onne of them for taking a sledge hammer to the mounting bosses on the tracer. I told him he was destroying real history. There's just know end with what you can do with a lathe....congradulations on your score of the lathe man...
We had a 30" monarch at a machine shop I worked in and it was a beast if I could of fit a cutter from a 16' yes foot VTL that had 3 6 series CNMG inserts in the tool post I'm positive it would of cut with the tool buried like it was nothing
Get in the habit of using the key in the chuck and immediately removing the key from the chuck. Super dangerous to forget the key in the chuck and turn on the lathe!
My lathe has at some point been retrofitted with a chuck key holder that doubles as an emergency stop. The lathe won't turn on if the key isn't in the holder, plus there's an emergency stop button I can hit if something's going haywire. Old unsafe machines are cool, but if you don't have ingrained safety habits to match they'll pull you into the spinning bits and mangle you real bad. That beast can probably kill you in two seconds flat if you somehow get caught in it- and that won't be an open casket funeral. Please, learn proper safety for lathe use. No gloves ever, avoid long sleeves or anything else that could get caught and pulled in. Don't ever wrap sandpaper around the spinning part. Always wear safety glasses. Never use a file that doesn't have a handle, and if filing on the lathe stand clear of the file's long axis so it won't shoot through you like a spear if it gets caught on something. No long hair anywhere near the rotating bits, make sure anyone with long hair has it tucked away safely or stands way back. And make sure you mount an emergency stop button within easy reach, preferably and emergency stop pedal you can kick if your hands are being pulled into the machine. Woman I know broke her arm getting wrapped around the workpiece while sanding on a lathe, what saved her life was stepping on the floor-mounted stop button.
At my old work, they had a LeBlond lathe that was a 1918 government requisition for the war effort. It still works very well when I left and held a good tolerance.
You remind me of my dad so much. He was a great man for figuring things out modifying, manufacturing, building and making things work. Like you he was a self taught welder and fabricator.
I remember seeing machines like that back in the 60's when I was in boarding school. We had some really cool stuff, and had full access to learning how to use them. The old school building was still there a couple of years ago, they probably still have the machines in there. Have fun.
I used to work in a building that was a factory in the 1900's on. They refurbed it into office/flex space in the late 2000's, but kept a bunch of the old factory stuff around for history and decoration. They had a picture from what must have been before 1920 of some kid operating what could have been this exact lathe wearing a tie. I cringed every time i saw it.
@@joshschneider9766 I doubt it. Some of them are already on loan from someplace else (like the hemispherical drill press.) Anything they were willing to give up they did a decade and a half ago. The building was ALMOST torn down, it was in such bad shape. Though, when it was built it was the largest building in the world. www.cummings.com/articles/eyesore.html
Pretty cool, you should be able to make stuff that you probably sent out and had to send your money on. Saving yourself some dough. Nice find and nice job getting it in
I grew up in a machine shop sweeping and shoveling all the mess. I loved every minute of it. Nice job figuring out how to get it to work for your shop use. Can you imagine the hundreds of men that learned they’d trade standing in front of that beast. Back when men were men!!!!
Grats with your new workhorse in your stable 👍 I like your voice, your talking, your handling of the machine, all showing your excitement. Thanks for sharing your joy !
Please get some safety glasses. Hot metal chips in the eye are no fun. Keep a few pairs by the lathe. I saw you searching for your welding gloves on your video with Matt.😂
Such a killer machine without safety barrier for moving parts, so close and dangerous, I hope you will think about that and make that beast more friendly to operate.
Hmmmm....one thing I was taught as a kid; don't put your hand in moving machinery. You can only do it twice then you have run out of hands. I still have both of mine and I use this type of lathe (much smaller though) all the time. Half the joy of old machinery like this is watching the interplay with all the different parts, like watching the motion on a steam engine.
I don't recognize the lathe brand, there are many forgotten lathe manufacturer's. Might be an American. Could well be older than 1930, no quick change box for the feeds. Must have a whole stack of feed gears. You got a piece of history here, and it's still working. A testament to lasting quality. One piece of advice, take it or leave it is :avoid carbide tools except on large diameters. The old girl doesn't turn very fast and carbides don't work well at low surface speeds. It's nice to see a piece of machining history find a good home.
Your subtitling is much better than most. Contrasting colors and font bordering helps to differentiate words from the video. Knowing tools makes for better acquisitions.
Great find. I have a 1920's Senaca Falls(much smaller), also been converted from belt drive. I just upgraded to a quick change tool post. Well worth it, much better than the lantern type you have. Be sure to keep all the old parts in case someone down the line wants to restore to original.
Nice find again sir! Good video too. Way back in the dark ages we had a 5' bed lathe in our shop on the Saskatchewan farm. Had a 3 and 4 jaw chuck. The 4 jaw lets you do odd things like off center holds, but mostly the 3 jaw was used. You likely know this, but just keep the bed rails cleaned and lubed. Cover them with a tarp if you need to grind or weld, clean afterwards. A good lathe that size will be about as handy as a pocket on a shirt in a shop like yours. Very cool to see someone's cast off being put back into service too.
@@francisschweitzer8431 Ja, I hope it will save someones life, did you see the size of that chuck key, that would give you a headache. Tool maker for 65 years, cheers.
I remember that someone left a key in a lathe chuck and then turned the thing on at high revs. The key was stuck in the ceiling panels. That was the last time the guy ever seen a lathe or milling machine from close. We also had regularly some metal fires due to turning at too high speeds or taking to large passes.
I have a similar lathe I bought twenty years ago, took it apart, stripped everything, re-bedded it , put modern quick change head on it and have been using it a lot. Bearing ,belt and chain co here in Tucson made me new belts for it. yours should work for another 100 years. Good buy!
Nice find! If you want to make it more accurate. Anchor it down and level it by putting a machinist level on the slide and checking the entire travel. Have a good machine shop make you a ground test bar and sweep the side of it, that will tell you if your headstock is square to the ways. Tighten the gibs on the slide to get rid of any skew that it has. Keep up the awesome videos!
A lathe is SOOOO useful! I've had a 14x40 for a while, just found an 18x80 that's a much better quality machine from the early 70's, gonna be a while until I move it into the shop... like yours, it takes up a lot of real estate, and i have a lot of junk I need to move as well!
Nice find, I bought a South Bend lathe quick change screw cutting , back gear with tooling when I was a kid 23, the machine was build in 1923. I sold it to a guy building motorcycles.
You got a good deal on that old lathe. Almost looks like some we had in a plant I worked at from the late 60's to mid 80's. Have fun making things with it!
Speaking of dairy farms. One of my kids favorite things to do in the summer is set out the tarp we got from a dairy farm that they shot silage in. Best and biggest slip n slide ever!
Fab Rats yes the silage plastic was thick and expensive and usually not reused . But I can see how you could use it as a slip and slid . Can buy that plastic new from prob any co-op store . We ordered from UDA . But that’s only here in Arizona and have to be a member .
@@ArizonaKid Damn, y'all are giving me material notions...THANKS Bet it would make a superb PAHS underground home MEMBRANE www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/question/new-earth-sheltered-pahs-construction
First job after my apprenticeship was in a jobbing shop that had two of those old belt drive long beds. I did everything from heavy tug prop hafts, industrial shafting to custom lengthening Class 7 truck driveshafts. You've got a taper attachment so you're golden.
I would make sure you clean out all of the old gear oil. Out of the lath gear box. Diesel fuel works well to get stubborn spots clean. Nice old lath. You got a lot of great attachments. That 4 jaw chuck is a score. If you have any questions I would be happy to help. I am a master machinist by trade. I have rebuilt a few machines. Nothing quite that old. However the older they get the better built they are. God bless
Nice. Love this kinda stuff. Good thing you had someone with a Skytrax. That thing is so heavy, you wouldn’t have been able to get enough of the Elder’s Quorum around it to move it. lol
Level can also be achieved if the ways are scraped. There are power scrapers out there. Keith Rucker has one. You could contact him for info. His website is Vintage Machinery. org.
@@wags9777 On my 1949 Lodge and Shipley the lead screw and feed are two separate systems, you can't run them together, but I'm sure not all machines are the same
Finally got around to watching the video. Looks like an interesting find. Many cheaper lathes today still have the change gears instead of a gear box. Make sure since you pressure washed it that you oil everything. Need to get the right oil too if you want it to last. May want to get some good cutting fluid while you are ordering stuff.
I love old lathes. Spent a good bit of time behind a Chicago Tool 12" lathe and a Werner-Swasey #5 Turret lathe. That and a Bridgeport make me feel right at home. Good luck!!
I wish this thing could tell it’s stories? What a beautiful piece of history! Could you imagine the things this created? God knows? So glad you’re saving it! You guys are seriously my favorite thing on TH-cam!
My uncle had a lathe about as old as that one and always managed to find a use for it, there extremely useful for someone with your talents so congrats on the new toy.
Thank you for taking care of this old machine. I also have a smaller one (still too big for me) with roof transmission. It is rebuilt with a three speeed gearbox and electric motor, just like yours except that mine will have the gearbox hanging from the roof. Building my entire workshop "oldstyle" because it is just beautiful and machines work like charm.
One of the questions I ask myself when buying new equipment is how long will it take to pay for itself. My guess is with this beast maybe just a few months, if that, in this Fab Rats shop. I don't know how Paul got along so long without one.
Paul, I love your videos, and you scored well with this ol' lathe. But, I do not want to get into your business. But, You need safety glasses. Take that info from a Disabled half blind Vet!
That's the largest lathe I've seen! Love the vintage steel. You will need some safety glasses and a tray to keep your chuck key on each time you use it. Cool find.
In a disposable world it is nice to see you reclaim a useable tool and make it your own. Nice job!
Somewhere along the way I heard a saying that went something along the lines of “a truly realized man is someone who as an adult has regained the same bit of innocent passion for what he does with his energy, as a young child has.” That doesn’t mean that a real man runs around giggling as he works, it means that he does what he wants to, because he wants to, and it’s productive, builds etc. The image of an old man tinkering away in a shop comes to mind, or these guys moving around a giant lathe, playing with big toys, having fun, getting work done. Whatever problem men have going on in their lives, in moments like these, real men are in heaven. And that’s why we watch, thanks for sharing. Skål
It does you good that giggling ... It's all just small shit.
That's a great find and I'm glad you got it in there and got it up and running. Like everybody else has said, please take the safety aspect seriously. Never wear long sleeves, always, always, always wear good safety glasses, don't leave the key in the chuck, and never wear loose clothing. You may consider putting some shielding on around things like the lead screws. As much as we joke about safety there is a place for it and I have seen someone hurt on a lathe. The power and torque they have is amazing. Preserve it, use it, be safe and enjoy it!
Young Man you struck gold with that beast. I worked in a machine shop with something similar and it was one of the most valuable pieces of equipment. Also, I just floated over from Matt's and your channel is a mechanics dream. Thanks for sharing!
Welcome to the channel!
I love the saying "a lathe is the only tool that could build itself" 😂👍
I heard the same thing about a file.
I got this feeling that all that help everybody is giving Paul on safety and leveling is something he already knows more about than most that are telling him.
After watching this again, I am uber envious. Love to have a shop that size, and love the old machines and tools. The stories they could tell.
I bought a WWII Lathe the helped build parts for the war it was owed by International Harvester, love the old lathes!
My Dalton 6" built parts for the great war.
I have one that came off a submarine from ww2 my grandfather saved it from a scrap pile
Just watched the video, awesome find from the past. You've probably done this, but will mention it just in case... you need to check that the bed of the lathe is square and level from one end to the other. This will help you cut long things accurately and reduce wear in the ways. Might be worth checking for wear on the ways to see where the low spots are.
Anyways, hopefully there will be a follow up to this, should be fun.
That is a beast of a lathe and built to last. I love the old trans mod.
Don't toss out the high speed steel cutters, carbide are good for stuff but sometimes HSS is the way to go.
Congrats, any fab shop is incomplete without a lathe. Now where's your mill 🤠
A shop that size...and you 'don't have any safety glasses...'.
From someone who has been to the ER to remove a splintered piece of fiberglass stuck in my eye (once), eye protection...and hearing protection, are just as important as ventilation (respirator or exhaust) protection. Any one of the three will sideline you from doing what you enjoy. Nice score on the lathe! Be safe...if not for you, do it for your family.
An ER trip for iron shaving is no fun neither...from someone who knows.
The safety squint doesn't always work.
"It's old, but it works good." Attaboy, showing respect for your elders. One of the signs of a good man.
Stumbled on Fab Rats because I was looking for drive line ideas. Seen you use that kick ass lathe a few times. Made me think of when I was a kid and working for my Grampa’s shop. He was a tool and die maker for YEARS and I worked there for years. Ran old anchors like this all the time. Love seeing folks getting these old girls back online. Good work in all your projos, a true craftsman!
I’m still in the machine shop world but on the enginerding side of things now. You learn the fundamentals and the sky is the limit.
Be safe and watch yer fingers now!
I enjoyed watching this very old lathe come to life again. Great job in restoring it. The lathe is the king of the Work shop. Thanks for sharing.
That's got a nice long bed on it. Please don't leave the chuck key in the chuck They really hurt things when they go flying. Also to start and stop the feed there's a round knob on the carriage you turn to start and stop the feed. Most of the time you turn it clock wise to engage the feed and counter clock wise to disengage it. The lever you were using is just for forward, neutral and reverse of the feed screw. Have for with it.
Thanks for the tips!
I worked for an industrial hydrauliics engineering company. We built machinery for the offshore industry. Had our own 'inhouse' machine shop. There was 5 lathes of varying sizes, one was a monarch, built in 53, had a 30" swing and could handle 14 foot stock. If and when one went down they would always call on me to get it up and running.. We also had two Lucas horizontal mills, fine machines. I did have to rebuild the transmission on the smaller of the 2 lucas machines once. We bought an old vertical lathe once, a giant antique. Only a machinist knows just how valuable those machines are.. The 5e monarch lathe had a tracer bed on it, we never used the tracer so the boss told a couple hands to remove it, I almost fired onne of them for taking a sledge hammer to the mounting bosses on the tracer. I told him he was destroying real history. There's just know end with what you can do with a lathe....congradulations on your score of the lathe man...
That’s awesome! Sounds like you know your stuff! Thanks for watching!
We had a 30" monarch at a machine shop I worked in and it was a beast if I could of fit a cutter from a 16' yes foot VTL that had 3 6 series CNMG inserts in the tool post I'm positive it would of cut with the tool buried like it was nothing
Get in the habit of using the key in the chuck and immediately removing the key from the chuck. Super dangerous to forget the key in the chuck and turn on the lathe!
My lathe has at some point been retrofitted with a chuck key holder that doubles as an emergency stop. The lathe won't turn on if the key isn't in the holder, plus there's an emergency stop button I can hit if something's going haywire.
Old unsafe machines are cool, but if you don't have ingrained safety habits to match they'll pull you into the spinning bits and mangle you real bad. That beast can probably kill you in two seconds flat if you somehow get caught in it- and that won't be an open casket funeral.
Please, learn proper safety for lathe use. No gloves ever, avoid long sleeves or anything else that could get caught and pulled in. Don't ever wrap sandpaper around the spinning part. Always wear safety glasses. Never use a file that doesn't have a handle, and if filing on the lathe stand clear of the file's long axis so it won't shoot through you like a spear if it gets caught on something.
No long hair anywhere near the rotating bits, make sure anyone with long hair has it tucked away safely or stands way back.
And make sure you mount an emergency stop button within easy reach, preferably and emergency stop pedal you can kick if your hands are being pulled into the machine. Woman I know broke her arm getting wrapped around the workpiece while sanding on a lathe, what saved her life was stepping on the floor-mounted stop button.
yeah you can get sacked for that lol
@@breakingtoast2255 You can also get decapitated or lose an eye. NEVER leave a key in a chuck.
first thing I thought to myself was take that key out.
@@Kaboomf yes good points and don't use machines if you driunk or drugged up too
It's fun going back to these old video's
Wow! Great find! $500+$200 repairs= priceless for what it’s about to make you!!!! Great find guys!
PAUL !!!! this is THE TOOL !!! FANTASTIC !!! you are going to have lots of joy for this acquisition !!! All the best my friend !!!
I love the way you think, old not useless. Cool old machine that will teach you all about turning
At my old work, they had a LeBlond lathe that was a 1918 government requisition for the war effort. It still works very well when I left and held a good tolerance.
I love them old LeBlond lathes!!!! I have 3 of them and looking for more!!! I rebuild them and try to make them look and work like new.
You remind me of my dad so much. He was a great man for figuring things out modifying, manufacturing, building and making things work. Like you he was a self taught welder and fabricator.
I remember seeing machines like that back in the 60's when I was in boarding school. We had some really cool stuff, and had full access to learning how to use them. The old school building was still there a couple of years ago, they probably still have the machines in there. Have fun.
Go see if they are still there.
I love machines that violate everything that OSHA says is bad!
I used to work in a building that was a factory in the 1900's on. They refurbed it into office/flex space in the late 2000's, but kept a bunch of the old factory stuff around for history and decoration. They had a picture from what must have been before 1920 of some kid operating what could have been this exact lathe wearing a tie. I cringed every time i saw it.
Nostalgic but built to stand the test of time...
@@thedamnyankee1 any tools on display they might part with?
@@joshschneider9766 I doubt it. Some of them are already on loan from someplace else (like the hemispherical drill press.) Anything they were willing to give up they did a decade and a half ago. The building was ALMOST torn down, it was in such bad shape. Though, when it was built it was the largest building in the world.
www.cummings.com/articles/eyesore.html
Yes
That thing was heavy! Ready to see the first drive shaft get built 💪
I saw the Skytrax and thought Andrew Camarata was there to help.
You watch Andrews videos too huh?
@@dave_n8pu Who does not? Levi and Cody supervising.
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Hahahaha! I think everyone watches Andrew
Was thinking the exact same thing when I saw that lol.
Pretty cool, you should be able to make stuff that you probably sent out and had to send your money on. Saving yourself some dough. Nice find and nice job getting it in
For sure! Thanks for watching!
Came over from Matt’s channel. I’ve seen Paul
on a lot of Matt’s videos. Nice Tacoma and always there when Matt needs extra help, a true friend.
Welcome!
I can feel your excitement on top of my own excitement for you!
I grew up in a machine shop sweeping and shoveling all the mess. I loved every minute of it.
Nice job figuring out how to get it to work for your shop use. Can you imagine the hundreds of men that learned they’d trade standing in front of that beast. Back when men were men!!!!
Grats with your new workhorse in your stable 👍
I like your voice, your talking, your handling of the machine, all showing your excitement.
Thanks for sharing your joy !
Thanks for watching!
Awesome find! The things you can do with a lathe is endless.
Please get some safety glasses. Hot metal chips in the eye are no fun. Keep a few pairs by the lathe. I saw you searching for your welding gloves on your video with Matt.😂
I know that feeling. The doctors had to pull out a chip from my eye. Damn that Hurt.
face shield too
I love the line in the video, 'what could possibly go wrong?' You know something is NOT going to go as hoped for.
Love your attitude. Reminds me of friends and myself 50 years ago.
Ole Lathe. Machines like that are nice when well maintained.
This kind of stuff exemplifies American grit and ingenuity. I’m really glad that I found this channel.
Thanks for watching!
Heck yeah!! That's an old lathe...wow!!
Don't be shifting ANY of those levers while your lathe is running, unless the trans is in neutral!!!
you have true joy and excitement when that lathe turned on. pretty sick dude!
Such a killer machine without safety barrier for moving parts, so close and dangerous, I hope you will think about that and make that beast more friendly to operate.
Hmmmm....one thing I was taught as a kid; don't put your hand in moving machinery. You can only do it twice then you have run out of hands. I still have both of mine and I use this type of lathe (much smaller though) all the time. Half the joy of old machinery like this is watching the interplay with all the different parts, like watching the motion on a steam engine.
what a moneymaker this beast will be. It will save your bacon many times over. Fantastic find!
I have seen those belt feed lathes where they have water power near a river. Great work Paul, good to see people using these old tools!
You guys are what makes America / America God bless ur and ur family .... Matt too
Thanks for those kind words!
@@FabRats no problem brother just keep being you and ur set!!!
I don't recognize the lathe brand, there are many forgotten lathe manufacturer's. Might be an American.
Could well be older than 1930, no quick change box for the feeds. Must have a whole stack of feed gears.
You got a piece of history here, and it's still working. A testament to lasting quality.
One piece of advice, take it or leave it is :avoid carbide tools except on large diameters.
The old girl doesn't turn very fast and carbides don't work well at low surface speeds.
It's nice to see a piece of machining history find a good home.
Your subtitling is much better than most. Contrasting colors and font bordering helps to differentiate words from the video. Knowing tools makes for better acquisitions.
Very good. It will be nice to see that crude tensioner go because it bothered me right away. I hope you will document that exciting event. ;)
Great find. I have a 1920's Senaca Falls(much smaller), also been converted from belt drive. I just upgraded to a quick change tool post. Well worth it, much better than the lantern type you have. Be sure to keep all the old parts in case someone down the line wants to restore to original.
Nice find again sir! Good video too.
Way back in the dark ages we had a 5' bed lathe in our shop on the Saskatchewan farm. Had a 3 and 4 jaw chuck.
The 4 jaw lets you do odd things like off center holds, but mostly the 3 jaw was used.
You likely know this, but just keep the bed rails cleaned and lubed. Cover them with a tarp if you need to grind or weld, clean afterwards.
A good lathe that size will be about as handy as a pocket on a shirt in a shop like yours.
Very cool to see someone's cast off being put back into service too.
Thanks for the tips!
That's badass and it's part of History which is cool that you restored it and got it
Dude never leave the chuck key in the chuck, that's a recipe for a real bad accident, seen it many times. Cheers great videos.
GREAT ADVICE!!!! RULE #1
@@francisschweitzer8431 Ja, I hope it will save someones life, did you see the size of that chuck key, that would give you a headache. Tool maker for 65 years, cheers.
@@francisschweitzer8431 Old timer tool maker you got that right brother Rule # 1.
The chuck key never leaves your hand until it is stored in it’s holding place.
I remember that someone left a key in a lathe chuck and then turned the thing on at high revs. The key was stuck in the ceiling panels. That was the last time the guy ever seen a lathe or milling machine from close. We also had regularly some metal fires due to turning at too high speeds or taking to large passes.
I have a similar lathe I bought twenty years ago, took it apart, stripped everything, re-bedded it , put modern quick change head on it and have been using it a lot. Bearing ,belt and chain co here in Tucson made me new belts for it. yours should work for another 100 years. Good buy!
Glad you were able to save the old iron!!!!
Nice find! If you want to make it more accurate.
Anchor it down and level it by putting a machinist level on the slide and checking the entire travel.
Have a good machine shop make you a ground test bar and sweep the side of it, that will tell you if your headstock is square to the ways. Tighten the gibs on the slide to get rid of any skew that it has.
Keep up the awesome videos!
Thanks for the tips!
@@FabRats no problem! That's a stout machine and will impress you if you get it all aligned. They don't make them like they used to.
Just as long you level the lathe out. That way you can machine tolerances. Retired machinists here. Love operating big machines
Another nice find . Invaluable.
that is an awesome piece of old tech that you rescued so many of these ended up in the scrapyard...
Good job saving that classic Lathe .
A lathe is SOOOO useful! I've had a 14x40 for a while, just found an 18x80 that's a much better quality machine from the early 70's, gonna be a while until I move it into the shop... like yours, it takes up a lot of real estate, and i have a lot of junk I need to move as well!
The ways on that thing actually look to be in really good shape!
Its a pleasure to watch and learn thank you
Nice find, I bought a South Bend lathe quick change screw cutting , back gear with tooling when I was a kid 23, the machine was build in 1923. I sold it to a guy building motorcycles.
Thats pretty cool! They definitely don’t make them like they used to.
That's a piece of history. And that is priceless!
My dad bought one a hundred years older for twice the money. Ya done good
You got a good deal on that old lathe. Almost looks like some we had in a plant I worked at from the late 60's to mid 80's. Have fun making things with it!
Thanks for watching!
That was awesome . On the dairy farm I grew up on , we had tons of old stuff and if it works that’s all that matters 👍🏼
Speaking of dairy farms. One of my kids favorite things to do in the summer is set out the tarp we got from a dairy farm that they shot silage in. Best and biggest slip n slide ever!
Fab Rats yes the silage plastic was thick and expensive and usually not reused . But I can see how you could use it as a slip and slid . Can buy that plastic new from prob any co-op store . We ordered from UDA . But that’s only here in Arizona and have to be a member .
@@ArizonaKid Damn, y'all are giving me material notions...THANKS
Bet it would make a superb PAHS underground home MEMBRANE
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First job after my apprenticeship was in a jobbing shop that had two of those old belt drive long beds. I did everything from heavy tug prop hafts, industrial shafting to custom lengthening Class 7 truck driveshafts. You've got a taper attachment so you're golden.
Beautiful piece of engineering history!
Green with envy here. That is an awesome tool and piece of history.
I would make sure you clean out all of the old gear oil. Out of the lath gear box. Diesel fuel works well to get stubborn spots clean. Nice old lath. You got a lot of great attachments. That 4 jaw chuck is a score. If you have any questions I would be happy to help. I am a master machinist by trade. I have rebuilt a few machines. Nothing quite that old. However the older they get the better built they are. God bless
Thanks for the tips!
nice beast , and long enough to balance and weld transaxles , your blessed with a simple machine like that
Dang you Utah Boys have some killer shops. I was just in St. George for the last week, I love that part of the country.
Nice. Love this kinda stuff. Good thing you had someone with a Skytrax. That thing is so heavy, you wouldn’t have been able to get enough of the Elder’s Quorum around it to move it. lol
You need to make sure the lathe is level, otherwise it won’t cut straight.
Level can also be achieved if the ways are scraped. There are power scrapers out there. Keith Rucker has one. You could contact him for info. His website is Vintage Machinery. org.
Level isn’t exactly correct, for example machine shops on a ship are never “level” but the machine has to have the twist out of the ways.
Don't confuse the feed with the half nut, which is for cutting threads. Cool machine, I'm jealous.
The half nut locks the cross slide into the leadscrew for feeds and cutting screws. There a Symphony of moving parts that all have to work together
@@wags9777 On my 1949 Lodge and Shipley the lead screw and feed are two separate systems, you can't run them together, but I'm sure not all machines are the same
Nice Job Getting it in place.
Yes, that is a heavy thing, but it handy as you say. Nice that get sooo exact!
That's a lovely piece of kit , make sure it's oiled and greased and it will see you out
Great find. Nice job getting it running but man protect your eyes. Without those no more shop!
A big learning curve with all the extra pieces super lathe man to the rescue!!!
As a machinist and without even watching the video, these old machines are hard to kill. I just wish the new ones were half this good.
Finally got around to watching the video. Looks like an interesting find. Many cheaper lathes today still have the change gears instead of a gear box. Make sure since you pressure washed it that you oil everything. Need to get the right oil too if you want it to last. May want to get some good cutting fluid while you are ordering stuff.
I love old lathes. Spent a good bit of time behind a Chicago Tool 12" lathe and a Werner-Swasey #5 Turret lathe. That and a Bridgeport make me feel right at home. Good luck!!
Found you from Matts channel. Really enjoy seeing your work
Welcome!
Looks like you got enough instructions in the comments to write a book.
Great addition to your shop. And what a great find.
I wish this thing could tell it’s stories? What a beautiful piece of history! Could you imagine the things this created? God knows? So glad you’re saving it! You guys are seriously my favorite thing on TH-cam!
We would love to know it’s history! It really is an awesome piece. Thanks for your kind words!!
My uncle had a lathe about as old as that one and always managed to find a use for it, there extremely useful for someone with your talents so congrats on the new toy.
DO MORE SHOP VIDEOS!!!! THIS IS THE STUFF I LOVE!!!
You got it!
You saved a piece of history!
Thank you for taking care of this old machine. I also have a smaller one (still too big for me) with roof transmission. It is rebuilt with a three speeed gearbox and electric motor, just like yours except that mine will have the gearbox hanging from the roof. Building my entire workshop "oldstyle" because it is just beautiful and machines work like charm.
One of the questions I ask myself when buying new equipment is how long will it take to pay for itself. My guess is with this beast maybe just a few months, if that, in this Fab Rats shop. I don't know how Paul got along so long without one.
That lathe is gold in the airplane propeller maintenance business
Score and a half lucky!!!the sky trac saved the day too I hope you have a lot of fun with it!!!
It’s good to have friends with awesome equipment for sure!👍🏻
Paul, I love your videos, and you scored well with this ol' lathe. But, I do not want to get into your business. But, You need safety glasses. Take that info from a Disabled half blind Vet!
That's the largest lathe I've seen! Love the vintage steel. You will need some safety glasses and a tray to keep your chuck key on each time you use it. Cool find.
Largest lathe I've seen was at least 60' long for turning propshafts, the mill in the same shop had an 8' diameter work table!
Hope you have lot's of fun with it. My first lathe was old. I have never understood how anyone can be without lathe.
Now that's awesome to be able to keep it alive and working that should out live everyone of us by a couple hundred years
The ingenuity on this is amazing and I've been inspired. Thank you for this video.
Thanks for watching!
Great vid, your passion and enthusiasm, and number of friends to help, is amazing. The lathe is the King of tools.
Thanks for watching!