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I wonder if you can help me identifying my 8 mm lathe. Headstock, bed and support are completely unbranded. The person I got it from says it's a Lorch. However I could not find any pictures of a Lorch without oilers like mine. The tailstocks of my 6 mm Lorch are compatible in that they have the exact same centre height. Could it be Wolf & Jahn ?  Have you ever seen a model like this?
I thank you very much for your help and remain with all the best from Hamburg

Alex

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1 hour ago, AlexanderToerzs said:

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I wonder if you can help me identifying my 8 mm lathe. Headstock, bed and support are completely unbranded. The person I got it from says it's a Lorch. However I could not find any pictures of a Lorch without oilers like mine. The tailstocks of my 6 mm Lorch are compatible in that they have the exact same centre height. Could it be Wolf & Jahn ?  Have you ever seen a model like this?
I thank you very much for your help and remain with all the best from Hamburg

Alex

I think I have one of these??

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To the best of my knowledge Boley & Leinen never made a Geneva pattern lathe, they always used either the WW pattern or a reduced form of that they called "Reform", which is what JD's appears to be.

 

Have a dig around Tony's site, probably has dozens of watch lathe makes listed with an immense amount of information on them.

http://www.lathes.co.uk

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Thanks Nickelsilver. Tony has a 6mm Wolf Jahn which is apart from it's size identical to my model. I have now found reliably the following thread dimensions: Lorch 6,985 x 0,625 and Wolf Jahn 6,85 x 40G. I measured the thread of the chuck and it read 6,85 mm almost bang on. So it's a Wolf & Jahn. Compatible chucks with the same thread and pitch are Leinen (but not Boley & Leinen) and Bergeon. 

Thanks and greetings from Hamburg, Alex

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