Unusual lathe

Unusual lathe

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2 December 2019 at 15:29 #13718
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2 December 2019 at 15:29 #439840
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I have just come across a type of lathe I have never seen before. It has a sliding bed to allow different lengths of gap.**LINK**
2 December 2019 at 15:36 #439842
Michael Gilligan
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That’s neat

… and very big

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2 December 2019 at 15:53 #439847
SillyOldDuffer
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Wonderful!

Stanley did a nice line in Lathe Dogs too…
2 December 2019 at 19:45 #439894
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Slidng bed lathes not that unusual – just not seen much in model engineer friendly sizes.

Rebuilt & retfofitted a Heid CNC version at my last employment, with the sliding bed as a positionable "W" axis. The customer didn't use the feature to acccomodate differing length parts, but to give the operator more room to load & unload the part.

Nigel B

PS. The old Stanley works was on the hillside overlooking Halifax, near Shibden Hall – long demolished & now houses. The name lives on as Broadbent Stanley, though the machines are all imports now.. They also own the Parkson name

Edited By mgnbuk on 02/12/2019 19:48:45
2 December 2019 at 21:46 #439920
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It looks rather like the Binns & Berry I was making parts for NCB cable reels on in the mid '70s. That had an electric rapid traverse on the saddle, though. There was another even bigger one that had a double-rail bed so that the saddle could pass the tailstock, but I never got a go on that one.
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