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Anyone hear of a New ULM brand lathe
Supposedly made by New Ulm Precision Tools Co., out of New Ulm, Mn.
Any info on it is appreciated. Its approximately 7" swing over ways, and 12 inches between centers. |
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Huey Conway Don't bother with it I am too busy to reply anyhow! wrote: Supposedly made by New Ulm Precision Tools Co., out of New Ulm, Mn. Any info on it is appreciated. Its approximately 7" swing over ways, and 12 inches between centers. The dimensions make it sound like yet another of the fleet of small import lathes -- all appear to acutally be made by the same factory, or at least to the same drawings, and differ (mostly) only in color of pain and "maker's name" on the label. Maybe someone else actually knows different about this brand, but this is what I suspect. Visit the Grizzly, and Harbor Freight web pages and see whether you can find something which looks exactly the same. I'll bet that you can. Good Luck, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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DoN might be right, but it might be worth investigating. New Ulm is a strongly German small community. If this lathe is as good as the products of the August Schell brewery in New Ulm.... I live less than an hour's drive from New Ulm. Its small town middle America with a STRONG Greman background. I'm sure there's not an Asian re-importer there. I bet you could just get ahold of the yellow pages and look for the name of that company. Otherwise, do what I do for small towns like this; call up the local hardware store and aks them. BTW, I toured the brewery last year. They gave me a sample of Schell's Caramel Bock. Now its the only beer I drink. Karl |
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Here's their website, with contact information. According to their
mission statement, their primary business is designing and manufacturing fixtures and jigs, work cells, etc. They also sell a line of machine tool accessories, according to several web directories. Why not give 'em a call and see what they say? http://www.newulmprecisiontool.com/ My bet is it's a rebadged Chinese 7x12, but if not, please let us know. Regards, Bob |
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Karl Townsend wrote:
DoN might be right, but it might be worth investigating. New Ulm is a strongly German small community. If this lathe is as good as the products of the August Schell brewery in New Ulm.... I live less than an hour's drive from New Ulm. Its small town middle America with a STRONG Greman background. I'm sure there's not an Asian re-importer there. I bet you could just get ahold of the yellow pages and look for the name of that company. Otherwise, do what I do for small towns like this; call up the local hardware store and aks them. This thread had me *seriously* confused for a while. I spent a year stationed in New Ulm (actually spelled Neu-Ulm) in Germany around '72. Needless to say, that community is strongly German as well and has a strong metalworking heritage. Walther, the gunmaker is located in Ulm proper, just over the river. BTW, I toured the brewery last year. They gave me a sample of Schell's Caramel Bock. Now its the only beer I drink. Karl |
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Bob wrote:
Here's their website, with contact information. According to their mission statement, their primary business is designing and manufacturing fixtures and jigs, work cells, etc. They also sell a line of machine tool accessories, according to several web directories. Why not give 'em a call and see what they say? http://www.newulmprecisiontool.com/ My bet is it's a rebadged Chinese 7x12, but if not, please let us know. Regards, Bob Look at the machine list - they look Japanese. They have Danobat, DoAll, Moore, Unison, Brown and Sharpe, Okamoto, OKK, Tsugami , Bridgeport mills, Harrison, Okuma Mori Seiki etc. Martin -- Martin Eastburn, Barbara Eastburn @ home at Lion's Lair with our computer NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder |
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"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote:
Bob wrote: Here's their website, with contact information. According to their mission statement, their primary business is designing and manufacturing fixtures and jigs, work cells, etc. They also sell a line of machine tool accessories, according to several web directories. Why not give 'em a call and see what they say? http://www.newulmprecisiontool.com/ My bet is it's a rebadged Chinese 7x12, but if not, please let us know. Regards, Bob Look at the machine list - they look Japanese. They have Danobat, DoAll, Moore, Unison, Brown and Sharpe, Okamoto, OKK, Tsugami , Bridgeport mills, Harrison, Okuma Mori Seiki etc. Martin I dunno. I thought the list looked like they actually chose fairly well when they bought their tooling. It's not like they have a pile of HF or Powerfist brand tools in use. That they admit to, anyway. :-) And, that is the list of tools that they have available to use, not to sell. I did not see anywhere that indicated that they were in the buisness of selling general purpose or hobby type machine tools, so perhaps this lathe that got this all started is a new venture for them, or it is not related to them at all. I would tend towards the sentiment expressed above, that it is probably another rebadge. I'd be glad to be wrong, though. Cheers Trevor Jones |
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