mystry lathe

Nov 11, 2008 11 Replies
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I went to pick up an engine for my bandmill project and the guy had a 13" lathe (very old he thought pre 20's) that he offered to sell for scrap. The only tag on it says Globe manufacturing, no serial #s on the ways or anywhere I could see. Everything moves, no rust, lots of dirt, no tooling but a 3 jaw chuck. I googled Globe and found nothing but a reference to a milling attachment. It looks very similar to an early southbend the gear cover and the apron are identical to some pictures I found but there's no reference to southbend on the machine that I could find.



Anybody seen/ have one like it? For what he wanted it could easily follow me home



Andrew


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It isn't even mentioned here;

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There's a real good chance the headstock has babbit bearings. If they are worn out, the lathe is useless till you rebabbit. DAMHIKT. You can check for this by bringing a 2x4 along. Wedge it under the chuck and lift, if it moves up enough that you can see it move (>.020"?), you're in for this repair. More trouble than its worth.

Karl

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Before the Depression there were over 100, maybe 200 lathe makers in the US. That list doesn't begin to scratch the surface. It doesn't list my 1917 Taylor & Finn knee mill, either.

I suspect that the only place where you'll find complete lists of US-built machines is in the archives of _American Machinist_. Even there, they probably missed some.

Those archives, BTW, may only exist at the National Library of Congress today, in microfilm and microform. There were two other sets when I was at _AM_, and I know that one got broken up; the other *might* be at _AM's_ newer offices in Cleveland. Maybe.

-- Ed Huntress

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I thought you were going to tell us it *did* follow you home! :-(

I'd have bought it for scrap simply because scrap will be going back up - in case the other reason didn't work out. :-)

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It looks like this one

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top of the page, even the tag on the left leg is in the same place but it says globe on it.

Andrew

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My SB "A" (1960) has, among other tings, a label "Canadian Fairbanks Morse" (the importing agent/dealer) riveted to it. Perhaps,in your case, Globe was the selling agency. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Here=92s a picture of a Globe second operation lathe (along with a lathe made in the USSR):

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are for sale by a perfume company in Oklahoma:
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nameplate matches what you probably already found for a milling attachment:
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3% inflation rate and now the Library Of Congress ? Your killing me Ed. Is the LOC online yet? I'm afraid to look cause I'll just get pissed. I always run into the ole paper clip dude tapping on the glass to the likes of Berkeley and mit with $1,200 a month subscriptions to get past the gate.
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Take a look. The card indexes are online, like those of most libraries today.

-- Ed Huntress

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Really? Just the card indexes... I'll have to check again after ahhh

10 + years. But no E-Books I bet. I'd love to get the wood cabinet little drawers for tools and parts.
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I don't know, but it will be limited, whatever it is. Copyrights, ya' know.

-- Ed Huntress

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