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Martin H. Eastburn Martin H. Eastburn is offline
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Default Sheldon Lathe

That is a shame. I guess I got to them early enough and so
did my friend in La.

I have the L Series Lathes 10" swing, 3/4" collet Capacity
For lathes built prior to S/N TLWQ 10758 [ mine is a 10L44 not 11. ]

I also have Sheldon 11" lathe part list.

They are not blue prints - 81/2 x 11" paper - exploded views and such.

Martin

Jon Elson wrote:
Martin H. Eastburn wrote:
Bob -

I have a Sheldon - 11L44 - several of us have them.

I bought it with Dad - I carried off the some tool as he had
his hands full with tooling. Hardware store. Don't you love 1952!

National Acme Co.
Sheldon Machine Div.
170 E. 131 St street
Cleveland, Ohio 44108

National Acme was bought by DeVlieg-Bullard II, good folks to work with,
but as they sold nothing under $100K, they weren't too concerned about
having a machinist make a single gear for $475. I decided to braze the
tooth back on instead!

Anyway, Bourne & Koch bought out DeVleig-Bullard, and they seem to have
dumped the Sheldon prints, so now parts can't be made at all.

Jon