[modeleng] Taper Turning Attachment
- From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Modeleng" <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:17:30 +0100
Me again!
I drove to nearby Bletchley on Friday (the home of Bletchley Park, where the
German Enigma code was broken and Colossus, the first programmable digital
computer was built) to pick up a taper turning attachment taken from a South
Bend Heavy 10 lathe, being broken for parts. The cost of this was negligible,
but it was difficult to gauge the condition, as it was heavily encrusted with
gunge. My theory is that I can adapt it to fit my Hardinge lathe (which in
American parlance is an 11" lathe).
I have soaked it in paraffin/kerosene and most of the gunge has disappeared,
revealing a near-pristine condition (except for a few cosmetic hacksaw scars,
made by someone hacksawing in the chuck!). I think that this attachment has
rarely been used - unlike the lathe which is a wreck!
I am slightly puzzled by the mechanism, which has two slides, the lower one
parallel to the bed, and the upper one, with the normal facility for setting to
an angle. All previous versions I have encountered do not have the lower
slide. Any old South Bend operators remember the purpose of this lower slide?
Any ideas will be welcomed!
Cheers Hubert
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