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the low frequency of such jobs hardly justifies having a big lathe standing idle. The problem has been around a long time, and in the 1890s, the McCabe Company decided to retify matters with the lathe below, which offers another solution of the problem of killing a large bird and a small bird with the same stone. Would be a handy configuration today in some shops, I know a lot of home machinists would appreciate a smaller version..... This machine is designed on the same general lines as a lathe of the smaller swing but with all its parts unusually massive. Supplementary head and tail spindles are provided above and to the rear of the ordinary spindles, such as to give about double the normal swing above the bed. A supplementary tool post and the necessary gearing for the head completes the equipment. When in use for ordinary work the machine is to all intents and purposes a 26-inch lathe, the supplementary parts being entirely out of the way. When used at its full capacity it is a 48-inch lathe front head spindle to foot spindle, not so heavy nor so strong, perhaps, as the standard 48-inch machine, but strong enough for emergency work. It will be noticed that at the larger swing the face plate is directly geared. |
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McCabe Double Spindle Lathe This combines two lathes
in one, a large size, triple geared, capable of handling all classes of
work up to the full swing, and a medium size for doing the common range
of work.
The bed can be made any length from 10 feet to 40 feet |