I bought these three items at a tool flea market last weekend. I see no maker markings on anything so far.
The red cross slide is smallish and may have come from a watchmaker's lathe??
The brass and steel cross slide looks like it may have been home made but maybe not.
The large t-slot table likely came off of a small knee mill or maybe a small horizontal mill. The lower portion of the knee has been cut or milled off but part of the diagonal area where the z-axis handle would have been is still there.
Any ideas??
Can you help identify these items?
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Re: Can you help identify these items?
would have to be the biggest watchmaker's lathe I have ever seen.
More like a 6" Atlas or something like that
More like a 6" Atlas or something like that
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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Almost certain the last table is Burke #4 ( 3 3/4" wide). The left dial would be 2" but yours may be earlier. The handles appear to be original. The right side had the power feed but you don't need that. Correct in that it has been sawed off across the elevation /Z screw. It is still a heavy X Y slide made for a horizontal mill. The other slides, compounds bear more research but for now they are good to have for other uses. Tool sellers pretty much know what they have these days. Many parts are cast offs from other machines that guys want to restore. Too good to be scrapped, yet usable.
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Spro!! My man!! You are the big winner!
I pulled it apart last night and will clean it up, try to find a few replacement parts, and put back together. Really nice piece on the Y axis it needs a new brass nut and a new bushing on the handheld end. The nut is unusual so that may be a challenge.
Thank you!
I pulled it apart last night and will clean it up, try to find a few replacement parts, and put back together. Really nice piece on the Y axis it needs a new brass nut and a new bushing on the handheld end. The nut is unusual so that may be a challenge.
Thank you!
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Re: Can you help identify these items?
There were lathes larger than watchmakers lathes that used that style tool slide. One name that comes to mind id Derbyshire. I know Pratt &Whitney made a lathe that used that style tool slide. I used one in the school shop in the 50s. As I remember it had about a 10" swing.