An Atlas Clausing Craftsman 101.212 non restoration

[kopcicle]

it's getting there. I do occasionally have to combat the damage done by flying monkeys with hammers. I'm really too tired to elaborate but just imagine every screw, every nut, every bushing, every and I mean every gear tooth needing attention. At some point in this machines life it had been attacked by the four horsemen of the apocalypse armed with every manner of the wrong tool.

I prefer to embrace positive thinking. It's getting there.

I really just needed a lathe and here it is.

Note there is no gun in the photos. At various points there easily could have been.

 

[neanderthal mach]

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[Doozer]

A Harbor Freight 7X10" lathe is a better lathe
than an AtIas 109 lathe any day of the week.
Not trying to be harsh, I love old iron just as
much as the next guy here. But these lathes
are nothing but frustration. There are 3 versions
of these. One with a Zammak headstock, one
with the reinforced Zammak headstock, and one
with the iron headstock. So you got the best
of the worst. Still, a 9" SouthBend lathe is 10 times
the lathe that this one is. Deep 6 it.


-Doozer

 

[JST]

Actially there is a large difference between the "109" prefix and "101" prefix units. The "101" prefix were at least made by A**as, the 109 was made by some extra cheap outfit, for sale at the lowest cost to those who knew nothing useful about machines.

The 101 prefix, while not acceptable for discussion here, at least have most of what a person might expect to find on a lathe. They are still not much.... IMO not up to the base level of "Logan" or "Southbend", which is not that high of a standard. Hence the prohibition.