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Anyone recognise this lathe type? 65mm centre to bed?

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It takes W20 20mm Schaublin collets, and has no makers name on it. LA346 seems to be a part number, other castings have sequential numbers. It is extremely heavy for it's size and is very well made. Bronze nuts on the slides, roller bearings on all rotating parts inc tail stock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It's an oddball, for sure. I'm guessing you found this in Switzerland (looks like Swiss workshop color and window there!); it wasn't uncommon for machinists to make simple machines like this from base castings as part of their schooling some years ago. It's probably a quite good machine and w-20 collets and tooling are plentiful , much easier to find than what one would imagine for this size machine, w-12. It's odd they chose 65mm as the center height, and it makes it hard to adapt Schaublin 70 slides and whatnot, though Schaublin did make a 65mm machine as well. One thing for sure, it's not Schaublin.

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The Base castings theory is a good one. It doesn't have markings on any parts, apart from someone's initials, AG which appear all over the place. The slide is very nice thankfully, and it is all nice and tight. It came from a house clearance in Switzerland. I already have some W-20 collets from my Schaublin 102 which I bought dismantled. Anything with a decent slide on it fetches a small fortune, apart from this thankfully.

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