Show off your Machines.

[Black85vette]

Some tooling for the mill. A small precision vice and an angle vise. A small rotary table that also has the full set of indexing plates (not shown). It can be mounted horizontal or vertical. The small chuck does double duty. I have the threaded mount on it for my Craftsman lathe but it can also be mounted on the rotary table using the T slots with nuts. The clear plastic covering the DRO sensor is Xray film. Remember when they shot an Xray and then went to a dark room to develop it? I got a stack of test and calibration images from a radiologist where I worked. Very durable thick material.

[Black85vette]

I had to up my sharpening skills and got a tool grinder. Now I can sharpen carbide but prefer to use good old fashioned HSS tool steel. But then I got a whole bunch of it from my uncle who got it from an old time tool and die maker who worked many decades for the Navy.

Yes, most of my cutters are HSS, but I also have a good number of indexable bits that I had to make holders for. They were discards and sales samples from the place my friend Danny worked so they were free. He was in tool and die for almost 40 years. We were talking about custom profiles on cutters and he said at his work they used an EDM wire machine to shape their lathe tool profiles because it can cut solid carbide and put the correct relief angle on the cutter.

[cledry]

Going to do a full resto on this. It is rare, possibly the second oldest Heavy 10 in existence.

Bringing it home.





Previous owner swapped in a more modern motor to make it usable.



I ordered the build tag from the factory. They told me these short bed lathes were typically put on navy ships in their machine rooms.



According to the tag it came with a 1" spindle hole, but someone along the line switched it to the more desirable large diameter spindle.



I was missing the tailstock wrench so picked one up on eBay.



Made a couple of oilers for the lathe on my other lathe, using an original as a pattern, used an old brass follower for the material.