A coworker works elsewhere as well, and one of his co-workers there
caught a bunch of lathes being dumped from a local high school. The last
one had been sitting out in the rain (with a bit of plastic wrap over
it) for some time by the look of it when my co-worker mentioned it to
me. It's been painted over so many times I can't make out any numbers,
but it appears to be a Delta/Rockwell 1460 12x36 - with the "new style"
tailstock (cam-lock base) and indexing pulley but old enough to have the
cast iron legs, not the pressed sheet steel legs.

Tool rest (base and all) is missing, and somebody ripped the 3-phase
controls off of it. In a weird variation from the usual school lathes
(with missing tailstocks) this one came with one somewhat complete (it
does not self-eject, the ram lock seems to not work, and the ram lock
has an old-style locking screw in a new style tailstock casting, per
documents found at OWWM) it also has a second tailstock casting with
only the cam-lock parts (no ram, handwheel, screw, clamp parts, etc).

It's ~80 years younger than my other 12x36, at a guess, and in better
shape by far. Not sure what I'll do long-term for powering it - I'm more
set up for DC variables, but since it has a (probably functional, but
untested) 3/4 horse 3 phase motor with it, I might get a 1-3 VFD to run
it and give it variable speed.

--
Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by

Good for you!
Lots of things can be overcome. Took me years to find a 1" x 10 supplier
for chucks - but I did. Mine is a 1945 or before all there. Home made
cabinet - but heavy cast iron bed and an indexing main pulley. Nice for
art work or indexing.

Martin

Ecnerwal wrote:
A coworker works elsewhere as well, and one of his co-workers there
caught a bunch of lathes being dumped from a local high school. The last
one had been sitting out in the rain (with a bit of plastic wrap over
it) for some time by the look of it when my co-worker mentioned it to
me. It's been painted over so many times I can't make out any numbers,
but it appears to be a Delta/Rockwell 1460 12x36 - with the "new style"
tailstock (cam-lock base) and indexing pulley but old enough to have the
cast iron legs, not the pressed sheet steel legs.

Tool rest (base and all) is missing, and somebody ripped the 3-phase
controls off of it. In a weird variation from the usual school lathes
(with missing tailstocks) this one came with one somewhat complete (it
does not self-eject, the ram lock seems to not work, and the ram lock
has an old-style locking screw in a new style tailstock casting, per
documents found at OWWM) it also has a second tailstock casting with
only the cam-lock parts (no ram, handwheel, screw, clamp parts, etc).

It's ~80 years younger than my other 12x36, at a guess, and in better
shape by far. Not sure what I'll do long-term for powering it - I'm more
set up for DC variables, but since it has a (probably functional, but
untested) 3/4 horse 3 phase motor with it, I might get a 1-3 VFD to run
it and give it variable speed.

get a VFD , you will be much happier than with DC and you won't need a new
motor either.






"Ecnerwal" wrote in message
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A coworker works elsewhere as well, and one of his co-workers there
caught a bunch of lathes being dumped from a local high school. The last
one had been sitting out in the rain (with a bit of plastic wrap over
it) for some time by the look of it when my co-worker mentioned it to
me. It's been painted over so many times I can't make out any numbers,
but it appears to be a Delta/Rockwell 1460 12x36 - with the "new style"
tailstock (cam-lock base) and indexing pulley but old enough to have the
cast iron legs, not the pressed sheet steel legs.

Tool rest (base and all) is missing, and somebody ripped the 3-phase
controls off of it. In a weird variation from the usual school lathes
(with missing tailstocks) this one came with one somewhat complete (it
does not self-eject, the ram lock seems to not work, and the ram lock
has an old-style locking screw in a new style tailstock casting, per
documents found at OWWM) it also has a second tailstock casting with
only the cam-lock parts (no ram, handwheel, screw, clamp parts, etc).

It's ~80 years younger than my other 12x36, at a guess, and in better
shape by far. Not sure what I'll do long-term for powering it - I'm more
set up for DC variables, but since it has a (probably functional, but
untested) 3/4 horse 3 phase motor with it, I might get a 1-3 VFD to run
it and give it variable speed.

--
Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by


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