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Nice Lathe
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boilerhouse
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Price is currently $1.
Did you see the weight: 20,000 lbs. Can that be correct?
boilerhouse
Ultra Member
With the chuck being almost 5 foot diameter, lathe weight of 10 tons seems very reasonable. Cutting tools would need a hoist to lift them into place. LOL.
Forget about "model", go full scale!...... thinking about getting into model steam engines.
Dabbler
ersatz engineer
Easily.
A friend of mine used to operate an 8 foot diameter vertical lathe, weighing a LOT more. They are used for turning pulley sheaves for big mining operations, Hubs for large gravel trucks, facing turntables for earth excavators (high-hoes) - just a few things that come to mind...