Wish I had the space for something like that Harrison
The POS ancient flatbed I had before was bigger. I got that for nicks years back and the only 3ph motor I had that was big enough for it was 5 HP. Flat belt drive and open gearing but hell could it peel metal off.
It was worn to hell and back again, tightening the carriage and cross slide to remove chatter would mean you couldn't use full travel of either.
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It was fooked, well and truly fooked.
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But it got me up to speed again from high school days on a lathe (40+ years back) but it was very limited in what you could do with it. The power feed shaft was long gone and the only pitch it could cut was 8 tpi.
But I got plenty of practice dialing work true as it only had a 4 jaw chuck.
When a mate put me onto the Harrison at his work I shot in and sussed it out, took some pics and home again to research it on Tony's great lathe site.
http://www.lathes.co.uk/harrison/page16.htmlThat's when I had to have it as it was optioned unlike any similar model I could find online. I even emailed Tony with some pics and he'd not seen one like it.
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AFAICT it has all options and some even not mentioned online, see if you can spot all the options. I'll come back in a couple days and % mark your efforts.
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EDIT
No guesses to options.
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3ph 3hp 2sp motor
High speed gearset (45-2000 rpm)
40" bed
Slotted tool table on cross slide offside
Gap bed
Factory 4 side tool post holder (mentioned but not shown and upgraded from 3" to 4")
Imperial AND Metric thread cutting on a single changeover lever, low close to bed near the rear gear chest. (rare option)
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It came reasonably tooled with the basics, factory 4 side 3" toolpost(since upgraded to 4") couple of carbide holders, a boring bar and near new cross-hatch knurling tool but the important bits were included too, travelling and fixed steadies, 3 and 4 jaw chucks (and reverse jaws), a decent sized faceplate, drill chuck and centres. The only one I'd like is for the spindle, a 4 1/2 Jarno or something.
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Actually a reducer to MT something would do the trick.
The bed is worn a bit up near the headstock but I figured it would be OK. Recently I turned a 175mm long pin with centre support and in mic'ed up ~1 thou from parallel.
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This one I use on all manner of tasks from facing stuff (shaper type work) to threading rifle barrels for suppressors.
Boy is it good to have a 1/2 decent lathe.