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Swiss made TRAUB automatic lathe Clarence Rockland Ont. $500
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boilerhouse
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From my quick google search -looks like it is a fully automatic turret style lathe, with side cam cutters -built to make thousands of identical parts unsupervised. So it you need 10,000 hex head bolts for that next project, then you NEED one of these. (Setting it up to do your bidding could be learning curve though!)
Another You Tube video
Another You Tube video
Imagine that machine turning out 1.375" diameter plastic wheels every 5.5 seconds. That includes advancing to a stop, form cutting a .375" radius, drilling a thru hole with a 17/32- 19/32 step drill and parting off. That is how I had my Traub A42 setup. Now we're making money.
Doggggboy
Ultra Member
So were you a supplier for 1.375" diameter plastic wheels at some point?
I'm always curious about the things people have done for a living or just to make some side cash.
I know a guy once who made a damn good living supplying old style wagon wheels and western paraphernalia to movie sets.
He thought it was weird I looked after dogs.
Johnwa
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@johnnielsen I assume there is no computer involved and it was all done mechanically?
Prior to the arrival of Chinese manufacturers in North America, all of my home shop machinery was paid for by me modifying steel pipe fittings. Most common was taking a steel threaded pipe coupling, and boring out one end to a welding socket. $5 per diameter inch, so a 2” coupling made me $10. I did thousands of them over the years. Occasionally did valve bodies, and put NPT taps into pipe flanges or pipe caps.
Other revenue stream was cleaning up hot-dip galvanized pipe fittings. HDG mucks up the NPT threads, so for $2 an end I’d run a tap and remove the galvanizing in the threads. One weekend of 1” pipe tees paid for a new mill.
We built about 600,000 trollies out of 1/2" SS304 round bar for reefer meat transport trailers. Each trailer had 5 or so 4" aluminum wide flange beams in the trailer ceiling upon which the trollies rode. Sides of beef or pork were suspended from each trolley which were then pushed to the front of the trailer.
The trollies looked like a gigantic version of a curtain trolley.
Each trolley required 2 rollers each counterbored 1/16" deep and corner radiused to eliminate jamming on the trolley shaft and the aluminum wide flange beam inside radius. Each trolley had a hook shaped like a pigtail welded underneath for either a meat strap or S hook to be inserted.
Absolutely. Everything was actuated by cams and pusher arms. That includes a swing arm stop, opening and closing the collet, advancing the tail stock, feeding in the front and back cross slide tool posts and parting off with a radial slide.