Can anyone help identify this Lathe?

[AceOfHearts]

I have just bought this lathe and would like to find out a bit of history / information on it as it is obviously old although in great condition. Can anyone here help identify it? It doesn't have any obvious markings unless they are underneath.

[ianrb]

Does your wife know that you've got that in the living room?

Sorry, no help.

[MDMA .]

ianrb said:

Does your wife know that you've got that in the living room?

Sorry, no help.

presuming he is married

looks like there is a plaque on the top box, any info on there ?

[Simpo Two]

My limited engineering knowledge suggests it's a screw-cutting lathe, which might help narrow it down.

[MDMA .]

looks like a Myford.

[Simpo Two]

I don't see any Myfordy bits on it. It's not an ML1 or ML2.

[AceOfHearts]

MDMA . said:

ianrb said:

Does your wife know that you've got that in the living room?

Sorry, no help.

presuming he is married

looks like there is a plaque on the top box, any info on there ?

Fiancee but she is coming home tonight so will see the reaction. She is used to it though I think:




I will have another look later for markings and report back. It did come with a load of cutting tools, knurling tool, a box of gears and a 4 jaw chuck + extras. So ill get a picture of all that in case it helps. The previous owner was under the impression it was American. Not bad for £100 I think. Need to sort out the dangerous wiring though!

[tj]

http://www.lathes.co.uk/page21.html

I’ve found this site a great resource, good luck with you’re search

[AceOfHearts]

Thanks that website has loads of info but definitely makes the task more daunting!

The motor is Delco Remy (?) But i doubt is the original for the lathe. There is a a space for a plaque on the front of a lathe but it has been removed Biggest clue so far is that I cleaned up the chucks and both are F.Pratt and Co. but reading online it looks like their chucks were more common than their lathes.

Any more thoughts. I will hopefully get a chance to give it a good clean up at the weekend and look for any more markings.

[cptsideways]

I have one almost the same

Pretty sure mine is turn of the century, have loads of bits for it, eg gears for doing threads and stuff, 3 or 4 chucks & whole host of tools for it. I'm sure mine was French?

[CrutyRammers]

Gonna be 1930s or earlier, probably somewhat earlier. Flat bed so is probably European not American. The motor and chucks will be layer additions. Not much help, sorry

[cptsideways]

Mine is a "Leizure" it has a brass plate with the name and registered trade mark, looks the same as yours.

It's in regular use though my motor is a bit pants & requires a new mount at some point.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Simpo Two said:

My limited engineering knowledge suggests it's a screw-cutting lathe, which might help narrow it down.

Technically, just about all metalwork lathes can cut screwthreads. That one appears to have a manual feed so it wouldn't be very good for cutting a thread though.

[Dogwatch]

AceOfHearts said:

Fiancee but she is coming home tonight so will see the reaction. She is used to it though I think:

A place for everything!
Just how it should be.

[Simpo Two]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

Technically, just about all metalwork lathes can cut screwthreads. That one appears to have a manual feed so it wouldn't be very good for cutting a thread though.

That's true, I see now that it's really just half of a compound slide. I thought it was driven via the cogs on the left.

[AceOfHearts]

Thanks guys I will take a look. Yes this came with loads of cutting tools, screw cutting gears, knurling tool, chucks etc so should keep me going for a while. I need to re-wire the motor though as it is currently quite dangerous (speaker wire!)

Edited by AceOfHearts on Tuesday 28th June 23:08

[AceOfHearts]

Bit more info, I would assume it is European as the cross slide moves 2.5mm per revolution.

Another forum has mentioned it looks like a Zyto lathe but I am not too sure as all of te pictures I can find have differences and Zyto cast into the main body.

[AceOfHearts]

Slightly off topic but I also got this Smiths hand held tacho from the same guy which I thought was a nice little bit of kit.

[cptsideways]

AceOfHearts said:

Bit more info, I would assume it is European as the cross slide moves 2.5mm per revolution.

Another forum has mentioned it looks like a Zyto lathe but I am not too sure as all of te pictures I can find have differences and Zyto cast into the main body.

Mine has a brass plaque riveted to the main body in the lower centre

[honestbob]

With regards to the lathe the cross feed screw will almost certainly be 10 T.P.I. which will give you 100 thou per revolution.
As for the tacho I have one similar except mine goes up to 50,000 rpm.
A clever little feature is the black disk with the shiney centre. This is used to measure surface speeds in feet per minute.
It has a circumference of 6" so when it is held against a rotating workpiece the gauge reading divided by two will be the
surface speed in feet per minute. We always used to say that cutting mild steel with a high speed steel tool the surface speed
should be around 100 feet per minute. With this instrument you could check it easily.