My new lathe arrived today!

[John N]

Bit of an impulse buy this one

Fun morning unloading it today, not the easiest thing to sling but we had a good crane driver

Just need some work for it now

[Stew]

John, you're proper friggin' mental!

Have you shrunk in the wash or something?

Seriously though, what sort of stuff gets turned on a lathe that size?

[ANDYLASER]

Dunno if its really big enough............................................

[caskwith]

Could I make pipes on it?

[TallNHairyDave]

To paraphrase a famous film...

"We'd better do as he says. He's got a lathe."
"Nahhh, that's not a lathe... THIS is a lathe!"

That's mahoosive!

WANT VIDEO OF IT'S FIRST RUN! That's gonna throw of BIG swarf

[Nice65]

Now I know why this section is called 'BIG Boys Toys'.

What the heck are you going to make with it, it's huge!

[Iron Hoarder]

Do you actually sell any of this stuff or just keep it in that little shed of yours?

[Knife-Man]

That's a monster .

[Stuart Mitchell]

I have never seen anything like it, which bit spins mate, is the bed by your (is it you?) head...?

[John N]

I have to sell some stuff, the rent and rates on the sheds would make your eyes water!

I bought this one ( it will turn 2 mtrs dia, x 1.2mtrs high) for making clutch plates for the power presses we work on. the clutches can be 10' diameter! I was thinking about a smaller one and saw this on ebay

Ive no work for it at the moment but before the big 'stop' in manufacturing I was sub-contracting lots of vertical turning work, it makes sense to bring it back in house (when it cames back, and its showing signs, at last!) Weve got a machine operator that is good on vertical turning, so it makes sense to up the anti on the size of machines.

We did own a heavy machine shop (30 ton max component weight) 5 years ago but sold it, we had vertical lathes that would turn 12' then! , I got pretty proficient at all things heavy machining back then, and would like to slowly get back into the sub contract game..... time, not enough of it

Ill put some vids up when shes running.

[John N]

Yeah Stu, the spinny bit is the table by (my) head!

[Stuart Mitchell]

Yeah Stu, the spinny bit is the table by (my) head!

I got that as soon as I read vertical turning

[ChrisR]

Yeah Stu, the spinny bit is the table by (my) head!

Holy carp ... I get it now ... vertical turning ... huge, flat, metal platey bit ... blimey that much be impressive when it's doing its thing!

[Iron Hoarder]

Can I come work for you? Your job is much more interesting than mine and you've got better machines. I could finally use my machining degree again. I had to give it up when all the machine shops where I worked went out of business.

[Ken_Lau]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!