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Weisser DW Lathe - 1955
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A screw spindle nose, but, for safe running in reverse, fittings had a split thread tightened by a safety cross-locking bolt

3-jaw chuck with its safety cross-locking bolt

Attention to detail: The changewheel and drive-belt cover included an intricate cast-in drain pipe to catch coolant spilling from the back of the headstock spindle and lead it down to the sump

Adjustable carriage stop with fine settings by a simple non-micrometer-equipped screw


Drive to the leadscrew passed though a simple sliding dog clutch that allowed it to be disengaged and just the power-feed rod used

Circular T-slot to hold the top slide and permit a full 360° of rotaion; howver, this is not the writer's favourite method, he's seen far too many broken out

Maker's standard with the two changewheels necessary to produce the full threading range on the supplied chart. The clamp to the right fits over the cross-slide ways and acts as a threading depth stop.

Slightly unusual in that the No. 3 Morse taper spindle passed right through the casting, the tailstock could be set-over for the turning of slight tapers. The spindle, engraved with mm divisions, was locked by a proper split-barrel compression bolt and secured to the bed by the usual arrangement of a clamp plate tightened by an eccentric cross-shaft


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Weisser DW Lathe -1955
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