My biggest machine was a vertical borer it had a 26ft chuck, among jobs I
machined was big valves off some of our biggest lakes operating the machine one
story off the ground watching all that mass revolving around below you, it did
feel like controlling the world you could drive a truck
So off topic, but my favorite is an old Clausing lathe and an old no brand
T-lathe off of a battle ship! That monster could swing around 4 or 5 feet
diameter. Scariest machine I ran but you felt like you controlled the word!
Back to the legacy topics please.
On Aug 4, 2019, 4:10 AM, at 4:10
VDF lathe I remember them really good lathe I worked on one making pump shafts
and impellers for a while in my engineering days
Bill
From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com
On Behalf Of Richard Ellis
Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2019 7:24 PM
To: Legacy Ornamental Mills
Subject: Re: 2
Hi Bill
Having reached the age of 84, and the good Wife thought it would be a good
idea if we moved closer to the Daughters Great and great Grand.
We bought a small house near them. Not much room for all my lathes milling
machine welders etc etc etc. So had to dispose of it, gave most of it to a
Thanks Tim
I have the single locking collar for the chuck, have tried that with the
chuck and all is o.k. I am well aware of morse tapers having bought and
sold quite a few metal working lathes. The best one of all of them was a
VDF German made lathe See http://www.lathes.co.uk/
Cheers
Richard
