Thread: My 1930's Le Blond Regal Lathe

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Originally Posted by Jack F

Sure,

Let's see some more pics of old lathes. That sure looks like a truck transmission. I wonder if the lathe was converted from a line shaft driven machine?

Jack.

well mine did not have NO REV his may have mine did not but there was companys that made boxs for the flat old line shaft machines. i had 4 flat belt machine s that were on a line shafts at one time in its life

Ya this does not have a rev either Pat.
It's just a little two speed, I am not sure who made it.
I did find some casting numbers and letters on it and took some better photo's of it and also wrote them down so you could see exactly what they were.
My buddie is up in Alabama for a few weeks so I could not get in touch with him.
Here is the new photo's on the site below.
Kurt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtvara/?saved=1

yep your is not like the one that was on my old Henley lathe as it did look like a old gear box there was some casting that hook it up to the motor you could not see my input .but on yours you can see the input and the case ears and a pillow block to hold the input so it is a home grow deal they may have lock out 3 and REv but who cares what it looks like it works

I hear you Pat; There is a metal upside down cup where the stifter goes in to the trany.
That metal cup has a straite slot in it, so it can only go forward or backward.
I think it does away with any side motion at all, thats probably how they locked out the other gears. Kurt

hey i would not worry much about it the only way to get away from it would be a new motor and a speed controller it would cost alot$$$$ and would not work any better then what you have if you were lucky

might be a warner gear 2 speed from early heavy duty truck---old guys had to split shift to go thru the gears--hard part was that you couldn't go straight thru 5 th and then shift to high but had to know the numbers and split shift between the boxes----

I ain't looking to switch anything on it I had a guy contact me about buying it last week.
I also have a 3 phase 480v motor that the guy that sold it to me, thru in when I got it.
He was not hooked up for 3 phase so he put the 2 phase 250v motor on it.
I was just showing the photo's of the trany since the other guy on here was asking about it. I figured someone on here might reconize it and tell us what it was off of.
I don't want to have to move it, when I move back out to Vegas.
Kurt

Just saw this on another site. Apparently in New Brunswick.

Springfield Machine Tool Company vintage lathe.7 foot long 5 ½ tall - $400
http://cnj.craigslist.org/tls/2114573304.html

Originally Posted by RestoRod

Just saw this on another site. Apparently in NJ.

Springfield Machine Tool Company vintage lathe.7 foot long 5 ½ tall - $400
http://cnj.craigslist.org/tls/2114573304.html

HEY i would of bet i would never seen another drive box like mine his is the same set up on my Caroll Jamieson lathe i think the box is made by cullver wheel company

Well that's a good price.
Mine is about twice as long though.
kurt

I have two lathes, one is a 15"X50" Le Blond No. B-50A-53S
The Le Blond archives show it as being bought new by the U S Navy in the 40s

It was sold to a local lumber mill in 56.

I bought it in 78 from the bankrupt mill with a ton of fixtures and a taper attchment
it even came with the operations insturction book.

Does it look alot like mine???
I didn't get a steady rest but I got the follow rest.
I have seen a video how to make a better one then the one it was supossed to come with though. It use's roller bearings instead of just metal to slide on.
I could just slide the dove tail all the way up by the chuck with the follow rest though too. The guy I got it from also told me he found a 4 tooth chuck but it does not center as easy as the 3 tooth chuck. Kurt

1940 would be gear head lathe . up in the front of were my is shop the land lord has one i think it came out of a ship as well

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

1940 would be gear head lathe . up in the front of were my is shop the land lord has one i think it came out of a ship as well

Yes it is a gear head lathe and the best thread cutting lathe I have ever used. It has a 5 hp motor at 240 volts that weighs 180 lbs. They just don't make motors like that any more.