Joe Prindle
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2001
- Location
- Baraboo, WI, USA
So, when I went to my buddy Bryan's shop to pick up the $100 Johnson Dake bandsaw, he sez to me, "Take this with you as well." Being one to take free stuff and ask myself "Why?" later, I loaded it up.
It is a Pratt and Whitney #1 turret lathe. Older than dirt, with a dovetail bed, a nice set of cast iron legs under it and six position turret. Trouble is, it is missing the drive pulley offen the spindle, some of the gadgetry for the collet closer and it has one collet with it. I know far less about collets than I want to admit, but it is a little bugger and looks like it will be bugger all to get them.
So, what have I got here? What's there looks pretty good, what ain't there looks foreboding. I find myself forced to make a whole buncha little bolts or screws once in a while and it would be more cool than practical to have it usable.
Anyone got a dead one (other than me) laying out in the rhubarb patch for spare parts?
If nothing else, could the turret be adapted to a little logan or southbend? I s'pose the legs are worth something.....
Any ideas?
joe
It is a Pratt and Whitney #1 turret lathe. Older than dirt, with a dovetail bed, a nice set of cast iron legs under it and six position turret. Trouble is, it is missing the drive pulley offen the spindle, some of the gadgetry for the collet closer and it has one collet with it. I know far less about collets than I want to admit, but it is a little bugger and looks like it will be bugger all to get them.
So, what have I got here? What's there looks pretty good, what ain't there looks foreboding. I find myself forced to make a whole buncha little bolts or screws once in a while and it would be more cool than practical to have it usable.
Anyone got a dead one (other than me) laying out in the rhubarb patch for spare parts?
If nothing else, could the turret be adapted to a little logan or southbend? I s'pose the legs are worth something.....
Any ideas?
joe