A powered filing attachment - driven from the lathe spindle nose by an adjustable eccentric. This useful accessory was intended for the finest of work by the most skilled of workers.

Filing Attachment Stand
Where the filing attachment was in regular use, or the lathe busy, this separate stand and drive system was available which made the unit self-contained.

Horizontal Tapping Machine.
The unit was intended for the rapid tapping of small parts; both headstock and tailstock  were sized to accept No. 1 cataract draw-in collets - which had a maximum capacity of 0.25" - and the workpiece could be held in either. The headstock carried two "round-rope" pulleys, each intended to be driven in opposite directions and engaged by a simple cone clutch fitted between them. By this means the tap could be run into the job, then immediate reversed out by engaging the other drive - although the lever system which accomplished this task was not illustrated in the maker's catalog.

Horizontal Milling Attachment
This neat assembly bolted to the end of the lathe bed and employed the headstock - in a reversed setting - to provide a cutter holding facility. More information about cataract Millers can be found here.

A special "Speed Lathe" model the "Cataract No. 1 Filing Head" or "Lathe A" - used for polishing and simple hand turning.
The (foot-operated) lever bearing against the end of the spindle was used to open and close collets quickly for production work.

Standard draw-in collet draw tube shown with a special collet carry a replica of the standard Cataract spindle-nose fitting.

A special "Auxiliary Chuck" Accessory with a step-down Cataract No. 1 Collet accept smaller collets for ultra-fine work. Cataract made a huge range of collets (called at the time "chucks")  to fit a wide variety of other makers' machines. The tradition is continued today with Hardinge, the company who bought Cataract, being one of the world's largest suppliers of collets.

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