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4-way Toolpost. This unit was very well made from hardened materials and designed for heavy-duty use - the unit could only be rotated to four positions, each securely located by a tongue machined in the top slide casting.

Open-sided Tool Holder. This toolholder was built up from a hardened steel plate with a corrugated face and rocking shoe at one side (this is not clear in the picture). On top of the steel plate was a loosely-mounted cast-iron head by which means the unit was clamped to the top slide, and the cutting tool retained in place.




Plain Slide Rest. A simple, strong rest used for heavy-duty turning where the flexibility inherent in a compound rest was better avoided.

Supplied as standard equipment, the general-purpose compound slide rest was used for the majority of day-to-day centre-lathe work.

Special Compound Rest with heavy-duty tool post. Sometimes known as the "English" toolpost, this was unit was designed for extra-heavy duty work.




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Hendey
Lathes of the 1920s & 1930s
Slides Rests
Cone-head 12 to 16 inch   Geared Head 14-18-inch   
Taper Turning
Accessories   
Motor Drives   
Relieving       

Hendey Home Page   
Lathe Design   
Early Lathes   
Later lathes   
Shapers   
Planers   
Millers   
Factory Buildings   
Songs   
A Tour of the Works
4C Lathe
1920s Lathes Catalog