Bought a lathe last night

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I picked up an old 50's Clausing geared head metal lathe last night. It's been overhauled and is in great shape.


It was kind of a pain to move, but I got it in and running!


Now we're just a truckload of metal away from starting our pitts fuselages

[weezbad]

man i have always wanted a lathe. smitty used to send me all kinds of stuff but i never bought. i was going to get a cheap lathe from hf but some freinds said i was better off with a file. i will get one sooner or later. i love to make stuff. guess thats why im building a plane.

[tmbg]

keep your eyes on craigslist, you can get good old lathes for not much money...

I paid $2300 for this one, everything's in good shape on it, and it came with a whole mess of tooling! Two chucks and a faceplate, couple of live centers, a tapered drill arbor with jacobs chuck, a steady rest, quick change with 11 tool posts.

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