Saturday, July 11, 2009

won a hardinge cataract tool room lathe today!


Price was great. The UK lathe site has an excellent rundown:

http://www.lathes.co.uk/cataract/page5.html

Only 300 or so made. Only 15 or 20 exist. Looks very solid.

Hopefully I can arrange the shipping w/o much hassle. (It was local pickup only but I don't want to drive to LA...)

I'm now debating on a Schaublin to go with it. It turns out there *are* more expensive ways to waste time than buying colts!

Here's some small pictures: looks very clean, with lots of tooling.






And here's a larger photos of a restored one from the fantastic UK website above:

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