1895 Patent date STAR 9" lathe from the early 1900s.
Originally overhead shaft driven but can be converted to electric motor.
Ways and lead screw are in very good condition.
This lathe can be restored for use.
Includes three-jaw chuck and tail-stock.
Really too good for yard art, excellent historic machinery for Use, display, Tech museum.
It would have originally been shipped west via steam-train!
Designed to be easily dismantled for compact shipping.
Is the lead screw drive ratio fixed or are there different gears available?
In reply to APEowner :
Originally different ratios were available but I only have the one set.
These were very popular machines so parts are surprisingly available.
I think I read on a machinery forum that the gears interchange with another, newer, brand.
Some assembly required.
About twenty minutes to reassemble.
Taken apart for easy transport.
I would not put it back together until after cleaning and oiling.
SOLD!
FB actually works once in a while.
RichardSIA said:SOLD!
FB actually works once in a while.
Excellent! I was tempted right up until I calculated the fuel cost to go get it.
Yep, living in the sticks (Tumbleweeds?) makes everything more difficult.
But a guy drove all the way from Hermosillo Mexico for the valve grinding tools!
A guy is supposed to show up from San Jose CA for one of the Midgets.
I have a machinist friend who cuts spiral differential style gears on a lathe that was built in I think 1898. I am in awe thinking that machine was built to a high tolerance by other machines made probably 30 or 50 years earlier.
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