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5-6 years sitting but now it turns.

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Loren

11-17-2005 20:40:37




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Big Gisholt lathe at work. It was a military job, speculation is that it made big gun barrels. 19" hole through the spindle and tailstock. Tracer setup. We made spacers to raise the major parts so now it will swing somewhere 36-40 inches, and about 60 feet of bed length. It has sat under quite a collection of stuff since the 3.5 years I've been there, started it's idle time several years before that since they've never gotten around to wiring it up. Some time ago we moved it to the weld/fab shop and it started collecting again. Recently started getting in some big forgings that would be real good for that lathe. It ran yesterday and today the carriages work and there's only a couple small bugs to work out. This is before the move, looking from the tracer end towards the tailstock. Also shows the steady rest. This lathe is setup reversed, tail towards the operators left.
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Here's the tailstock.
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Fred OH

11-22-2005 07:32:17




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 Re: 5-6 years sitting but now it turns. in reply to Loren, 11-17-2005 20:40:37  
I once took a tour thru the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard and saw some of the larger work being performed. They had a VTL (vertical turret lathe) that had a picture hanging from it with 32 men lined up across the chuck. It was 40" in diameter and had a stairway built around it...apparently so you could go up there to turn the horizontal and vertical movement of the turret. Biggest horizontal lathe I"ve run was a 5"er...took two hours to align the part and about 20 minutes to machine it. Justa thinkin...we had a 6" Bullard vtl in the heavy machine shop on a tender I was on...it was in Norfolk, Va. I wonder if they still have all that heavy stuff in today"s navy? Fred OH

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NC Wayne

11-18-2005 20:46:19




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 Re: 5-6 years sitting but now it turns. in reply to Loren, 11-17-2005 20:40:37  
Hey Loren, man that's a nice looking machine. I've seen the times I could have used one with the same swing but fortunately I didn't need anywhere near the length. If you want to see some really BIG ones, hit one of the shipyards in the Norfolk, VA area. I remember seeing the ones in the Portsmouth Naval yard, when we were docked there, that were large enough to work the main line shafts. Some of those lathes had beds that were well over 100 feet long and the operator rode on the carriage with the tool bit. Now that was awsome.... Hope you get the bugs worked out and get a long life out of the 'ole girl. They just don't make 'em like they used to.

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Loren

11-17-2005 20:43:11




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 Re: 5-6 years sitting but now it turns. in reply to Loren, 11-17-2005 20:40:37  
The second bed section is at the other end of the shop in this picture. Shown is only about 35 feet.



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