We finally landed our first lathe, an old Voest DATR 1.5, for us a monster as we had been looking at old SB etc which were half the size, but it crossed my path yesterday, the price was right and I happened to have my flat deck trailer on the job site so I left work early and picked it up, brought it home for my son and he is thrilled. He has been wanting one for a while now to continue his pursuit of his machining interest, and I am all for it. One of the tools I have never owned.
It had been in service at the machine shop it came from for many years and when they rearranged the shop, found they didn't really need it anymore, so with a fork lift, plopped it on my trailer and away I went. Has a 3 jaw chuck on it, and a 300lb 4 jaw with lifting eye they also gave me. My son will be cleaning it for the next few days, remove all the chips, give it a good wash with Diesel and a brush to remove the grunge and provide a little lube to all the nooks and crannies that haven't seen movement in a while, then go through it and give it some proper maintenance. It currently has a 460 3ph motor on it, I will need to change that to a 208/220 3 phase, which I should have around here somewhere, then I will use the Baldor 15H series VFD I have on my log splitter to drive it, should work pretty well.
Here are a few pictures of it as she sits on the trailer. Oh, and if anyone has documentation for this in a pdf, please PM me and I'll give you my email, we received nothing with it, and it would help us figure it all out. Thanks!!
Cheers
It had been in service at the machine shop it came from for many years and when they rearranged the shop, found they didn't really need it anymore, so with a fork lift, plopped it on my trailer and away I went. Has a 3 jaw chuck on it, and a 300lb 4 jaw with lifting eye they also gave me. My son will be cleaning it for the next few days, remove all the chips, give it a good wash with Diesel and a brush to remove the grunge and provide a little lube to all the nooks and crannies that haven't seen movement in a while, then go through it and give it some proper maintenance. It currently has a 460 3ph motor on it, I will need to change that to a 208/220 3 phase, which I should have around here somewhere, then I will use the Baldor 15H series VFD I have on my log splitter to drive it, should work pretty well.
Here are a few pictures of it as she sits on the trailer. Oh, and if anyone has documentation for this in a pdf, please PM me and I'll give you my email, we received nothing with it, and it would help us figure it all out. Thanks!!
Cheers