Sorry but thats just a baby. A local engineering (Shipyard) had a lathe so big that the operator had a platform/seat on the saddle/crosslide. It ran 24/7 and each cut took on average 8hrs, so the operator put on acut at the start of his shift then just had to 'machine mind' for the rest of it. All gone now sadly :(
@kenp3L The handle I'm using is long so that I'm further away from the tool. I don't do this operation like this anymore. The chips are so big and so sharp they can cause a lot of damage. The cross-slide isn't powered on this particular lathe for reasons I was never really told. I have to make due with what I've been given. BTW, I'm cutting a radiused weld-prep.
I set up and ran a lathe for a company called Goldman Gear & Machine that was used it the Washington Navy Yard to produce 16" gun barrels. The headstock was 8 ft in dia. and the ways were 75 ft long. We cut grooves in copper mining shovel lagging drums (the ones that raised and lowered the buckets). The drums were 5 ft. in dia. The grooves were thre.e in dia. (1.5"r) and they started at the outside of the drum and met in the center. The chips were like car springs. I rode on the carriage.
Picture a lathe with bed ways 50 feet long and can swing a job 160" in diameter and can handle up to 400 ton... I run one at General Electric in Schenectady NY. The parts are so heavy we need hydro steady rest's to support the job.
great vid I use to use a Craven 75. 75 inch chuck centre to outside of chuck, it was in a machine shop for a shipyard and we made the propulsion shafts for bulk ore carriers and tankers. Some cuts use to take over 8 hours and a decent roughing cut would dim the workshop lights and throw big hot blue culey swarf bits everywhere.
Did anyone noticed ANY of the SAFETY VOLITIONS in this clip. Maybe you should think about that before you post a video on-line. OSHA could and would use this video against you to write fines.
I was a welder most of the time...at my last job, but 15-20% was machining...we had lathe about this size..had a platform on the carraige for the operator to ride on...we did stuff like this for tunnel linings, and vary large augers for feeding wood and ashes in-out of power plants. So yes, this may be weld prep for a butt weld. I've seen pictures of used lathes from shipyards for sale...312" inch (26 feet) X 120-130 foot capacity...
Otsego Michigan has a machine shop that works on papermill rolls from Kalamazoo to Grandrapids. These lathes are huge and very old. Like you said not everybody gets to see A real big lathe.I am lucky I grew up hear Thanks for the video.
I love it when the new "boys" or engineers (I like to call them "scientists") show up at work and actually see what a large lathe or floor borer looks like. Pale as a ghost.
@turtlemann14 I don't blame him for using such a long handle. Motions like this in machining can hurt your wrists and hands. I fixed a small electric motor to the compound of the big Niles lathe I operate.
@frankasauruswrex I think about 0.070" give or take 0.020". This was taken quite a while ago. I've since changed the way I do this particular job so that I have much better chip control.
I work a giddings & lewis CNC VTL, usually turning 27" diameter, 100" long blocks for the oil and gas sector, but thats childs play compared to this manual beasty. Always a miniscule worry when you start it up, I know the jobs tight but will it stay in?! (*stands back a few feet*) can you tell I've not done this long? :P
I saw it throw a cutting off that smacked the cord and made it move.Then it looked like one got you as well.Better get some leathers on buddy.That sucker is a monster.
Biggest lathe you'll ever see? Don't make me laugh! Where I served my time there was a lathe with an eleven foot throw that we used to polish and grind the tips of fully bladed turbine shafts. The biggest shaft weighed 52 tons and was 18 feet in diameter. The tool post was so big and high it had a platform for the operator to stand on.
@snimblegrump That's great buddy. However I didn't say it's THE biggest lathe. I said it's ONE OF the biggest. And not everyone is as privileged as you so consider yourself very special.
@therealtony nice reply mate! it saddens me to see people out there trying there hardest to prove everyone else wrong or stupid, and the way you answered that statement made by "snimblegrump " shows what a nice person you are, And i total agreed its one of the biggest lathes a person is likely to see
@therealtony my lathe at my house is 30 feet and holds 300000 tons. please, bow down to my greatness. Ive just proved to you that you are not near as cool as me. ive got a question on the serious note, whats pipe like this used? this things sweet!
@snimblegrump apparently where i work we have the largest lathe in the southern hemisphere. we machine turbine shafts with all blades fitted, the second largest we have has a chuck more than 2 meters in diameter.
Nice big lathe! I make my chamfers the same way. You have less tool in the cut and less chance of chatter. Chamfers done this way take a lot less tool pressure and I prefer that.
Well like right now I have 5 specialty machines going and 3 stamping dies we are building there isnt enough time in the day for me to do it all. And I would never have a machine in my shop that I couldnt run.
id take that lathe in a heartbeat lol and i wouldnt make my employees run it I own my shop and i run all my equipment LOL the problem is lazy people dont want to work and are afraid to hand crank machines
Imagine what a cnc lathe would cost that size hahaha
Thats what is wrong with this country?..hand feeding that!! NO WAY? and NO EXCUSE! The guys who own the company will drive home in Jags and all sorts of top cars to their big houses and that guy on the machine gets F**k all.! NO WAY would I go back to that!! bin there got the Tee shirt!
@therealtony lol..Oh yes it is! It wouldn't cost that much to get that saddle feeding!! the bastards wont pay for it and the operator will not say anything as then he's history! .I was a charge hand in the 70s a Foreman in the 90s and then managed Benders in Hassligdon in the late 90s so I know what I'm talking about! I wound that handle 40 years ago and ya know that poor guy is still winding! Thats why this country is F**KED keep winding! :P
@therealtony Oh!Tony and while you are yanking that round all day just think we are on the moon now! :p..Thats very old English engineering from the 60s done it been there started work in 1965 been in the heavy game all my life and watching that ..if its still happening says to me Canada has NO future! sorry but facts are facts.we don't do that anymore!! TELL EM! P.S. I play the geeeetar too in my spare time "squizzy104" on here. Stray Cats an stuff! keep winding oops! soz Keep Rockin! Ian
@memorylane1980s Please explain and bear in mind i dont wear a suit to work ! after all its the suits who fuck it up, also bear in mind the fact that the glory days are long gone, no more walking out of one job straight into another.
@Boxman363 I can walk out of one job into another coz I'm the the f****n best Heavy Machinist in the country!! Well known here in the North West, Not much I haven't machined from line boring Large ships engines to all the turbine work from GEC!! done it all dude, thats my name!! stick that in ya chuck and hand wind it!! :P
@deathfrogg We can see that you PLONKER! He's the Moron winding the f*****g thing!! we are sat here watching him!!! Dick Head! I wouldn't wind that by hand on F***ing principle!!
@deathfrogg FIRED? lol..HFDU! (how fuckin dare u ?:p) Ya cant fire an Englishman!! We taught you how to hand crank that shit !! and its 3 years since you guys over there did this vid and that job, I'll bets, still in the F***in MACHINE!
@bddc201 The main crossfeed is powered. It's the compound that I'm feeding manually in the video. I have the compound set at 20 degrees so I can make an angled cut.
@therealtony is it a weldprep. why not use a tool with a 20 degrees angle? have a look at the job i did with a 45 degrees angle. it,s on my uploads on my channel.
@userwl2850 Yup, it's a weldprep. I did it this way because then I didn't have to change my tool. Now though I do it differently because the chips that come off is too hazardous. The method I use now has much better chip control. Oh and to answer your question: there is no way to index a tool on the carriage. All I use to mount tools is two independent clamps each with a piece of ready rod and a nut and washer. Ya I know it's ghetto ;)
@therealtony I machine nuclear steam turbines with the machine I run. Gerneral Electric will not allow any video taken in the shop. If I could I would post one. It is amazing to machine something as large and heavy as I do. I guess that's why I love my job.
@Pipewing I actually make steam turbines for General Electric. The biggest one I have worked on was 180 tons. It was a nuclear mono block steam turbine...When in the field that 180 ton turbine spins at 1800RPM.
That is big as in job shop talk...the lathe I operate can handle 250 ton and can hold a part 50 ft between centers it is so big there is a platform i stand on that is built around the compound. The faceplate (chuck) is 108 inches. And there ore hydro stready rest that support the work piece. So for me that is far from one of the biggest lathes I ever saw.
Sorry but thats just a baby. A local engineering (Shipyard) had a lathe so big that the operator had a platform/seat on the saddle/crosslide. It ran 24/7 and each cut took on average 8hrs, so the operator put on acut at the start of his shift then just had to 'machine mind' for the rest of it. All gone now sadly :(
KeeFCrook 10 hours ago
Man those chips could take your head off
coolchaz52877 1 week ago
what are you doing a champfer
coolchaz52877 1 week ago
Just Wow !!!
carrarofan 1 week ago
So you're either facing or chamferring the workpiece. It looks like you're using a badly improvised socket set. Why no powered cross-slide?
kenp3L 3 weeks ago
@kenp3L The handle I'm using is long so that I'm further away from the tool. I don't do this operation like this anymore. The chips are so big and so sharp they can cause a lot of damage. The cross-slide isn't powered on this particular lathe for reasons I was never really told. I have to make due with what I've been given. BTW, I'm cutting a radiused weld-prep.
therealtony 3 weeks ago
what are the tolerances on a project this big? +- 1.00"?
AmuelSadams 4 weeks ago
HOW IS THE COST OF 1 HOUR OF WORK IN THIS MACHINE
natas24376 4 weeks ago
i saw sparks man.......
juicyjroc 1 month ago
I set up and ran a lathe for a company called Goldman Gear & Machine that was used it the Washington Navy Yard to produce 16" gun barrels. The headstock was 8 ft in dia. and the ways were 75 ft long. We cut grooves in copper mining shovel lagging drums (the ones that raised and lowered the buckets). The drums were 5 ft. in dia. The grooves were thre.e in dia. (1.5"r) and they started at the outside of the drum and met in the center. The chips were like car springs. I rode on the carriage.
MrAzman345 1 month ago
no auto feed
grassman8100 1 month ago
Is this chamfering it for welding? Great video!!
EDB0223 1 month ago
What are you doing in this video? Putting a thread on it?
YouNeedToHearThis 1 month ago
@YouNeedToHearThis No, it's a weld-prep.
therealtony 1 month ago
hmm... some how big razor sharp coils of steel cuttings flying out in every direction seems a bit hazardous to not be wearing safety goggles.
Hypatiaization 1 month ago
@Hypatiaization I don't know why everyone thinks I'm not wearing eye protection. It's pretty clear that I am in this video.
therealtony 1 month ago 14
@therealtony For me it's clear that you have safety goggles on video.
I'm working on pretty much same size machine, cnc.
Are you machining chamfer for welding?
jani73 1 month ago 2
@jani73 Yes, I'm machining a weld-prep.
therealtony 1 month ago
@Hypatiaization YES HE WEARING SAFETY GOOGLES,
natas24376 4 weeks ago
@natas24376 YOU NEED GLASSES
natas24376 4 weeks ago
Picture a lathe with bed ways 50 feet long and can swing a job 160" in diameter and can handle up to 400 ton... I run one at General Electric in Schenectady NY. The parts are so heavy we need hydro steady rest's to support the job.
dobypaw 1 month ago
I love this shit.
guitarded459 1 month ago
ya loose shirt no goggles safty boots
banjolimy 1 month ago
You forgot to show us what you made! :)
themomaw 1 month ago
Isn't it great how all the experts come out on a video like this to tell you how you should have done it? What would we do with out them?
acme663ryo 1 month ago
@acme663ryo I clicked like... I know exactly what you mean.
greatsoutherntrend 1 month ago
will that fit as an exhaust on my mini cooper?
ELFHUNTER50 1 month ago
They have lathes that you ride the carriage along the axis..
tru2dagame85 1 month ago
great vid I use to use a Craven 75. 75 inch chuck centre to outside of chuck, it was in a machine shop for a shipyard and we made the propulsion shafts for bulk ore carriers and tankers. Some cuts use to take over 8 hours and a decent roughing cut would dim the workshop lights and throw big hot blue culey swarf bits everywhere.
schuh4 1 month ago
Did anyone noticed ANY of the SAFETY VOLITIONS in this clip. Maybe you should think about that before you post a video on-line. OSHA could and would use this video against you to write fines.
HouTexCowboy 1 month ago
@HouTexCowboy OSHA got nothin' on me
therealtony 1 month ago 10
@therealtony
We do now.
juarezrt 1 month ago
@HouTexCowboy He has eyewear what more do you want
VirtRampage 1 month ago
cute....i worked on a lathe that takes about 40.000 kg of weight
regard from germany
D0nSpezial 1 month ago
how many times a day do you get hot chips down your back haha
nodnarbnoob 1 month ago
Warp drive part for the starship enterprise.
voon100 1 month ago
Bloody hell! Would love to see the dial test indicator: lol
rocketn8 1 month ago
Great, who borrowed my 85" - 86" OD mic?!
matthagedon 1 month ago 2
Scary big chips!
anchortrap 1 month ago
Looks like no coolant? May I ask why?
lynxfootball4life 2 months ago
What would this machined piece of pipe be used for?
dawg1157 2 months ago
Were you facing the end or turning/cutting the outside? Sorry im only 1 semester into this.
70CarStall 2 months ago
I'd be wearing a hard hat. Can you imagine one of those shavings landing on your head?
davi200 2 months ago
I was a welder most of the time...at my last job, but 15-20% was machining...we had lathe about this size..had a platform on the carraige for the operator to ride on...we did stuff like this for tunnel linings, and vary large augers for feeding wood and ashes in-out of power plants. So yes, this may be weld prep for a butt weld. I've seen pictures of used lathes from shipyards for sale...312" inch (26 feet) X 120-130 foot capacity...
dougspair 2 months ago
doesn't the traverse work?
cocksparrows 2 months ago
Looks like he's cutting a bevel so the pipe can be welded.
snoebay88 2 months ago
Yep thats a big lathe.What are you machining down there?
MrCriticOfAll 2 months ago
3:10 Ouch!!!
Addly82 3 months ago
Otsego Michigan has a machine shop that works on papermill rolls from Kalamazoo to Grandrapids. These lathes are huge and very old. Like you said not everybody gets to see A real big lathe.I am lucky I grew up hear Thanks for the video.
cbwd40 3 months ago
@cbwd40 You're welcome :)
therealtony 3 months ago
I love it when the new "boys" or engineers (I like to call them "scientists") show up at work and actually see what a large lathe or floor borer looks like. Pale as a ghost.
powershop1903 3 months ago
lathe swarf flyingh all over, no health and safety
Films4You 3 months ago
i saw a bigger one at a bethlehem steel mill turning a crank shaft for a ship engine
tubelib 3 months ago
awesome what company is this for?
snoops1586 3 months ago
do you really need that much torque to drive the compound?
about 280-300 surface footage?
turtlemann14 3 months ago
@turtlemann14 yes :)
therealtony 3 months ago
@turtlemann14 I don't blame him for using such a long handle. Motions like this in machining can hurt your wrists and hands. I fixed a small electric motor to the compound of the big Niles lathe I operate.
kenndogg51 3 months ago
@turtlemann14 Sometimes a longer bar gives you better control..
dougspair 2 months ago
man that's awesome! i really wish i could learn how to use a lathe. a much smaller one of course.
mocciofam 3 months ago
Holy shit! Dangerous Shards just flying waiting to stab your ass like a needle! cool shit though!
BigDH28 3 months ago 2
thanks for posting buddy,made my day.
inagod 3 months ago
Those are some pretty good sized noodles flying off that bitch!
9b8 4 months ago 3
How much material were you taking off in each pass?
frankasauruswrex 4 months ago
@frankasauruswrex I think about 0.070" give or take 0.020". This was taken quite a while ago. I've since changed the way I do this particular job so that I have much better chip control.
therealtony 4 months ago
Who of us two has the bigger lathe?
I cordially offer you the first move.
MucusFelidae 4 months ago
Notice the shavings flying everywhere!
WhidbeyOne011 4 months ago
That is one big-ass lathe.
TheWonderfulWombat 4 months ago
I work a giddings & lewis CNC VTL, usually turning 27" diameter, 100" long blocks for the oil and gas sector, but thats childs play compared to this manual beasty. Always a miniscule worry when you start it up, I know the jobs tight but will it stay in?! (*stands back a few feet*) can you tell I've not done this long? :P
JaKaRe36 4 months ago
When I was at David Brown Gears in Huddersfield they had a huge lathe that had been bought fo rone job and never used again.
brssgirl 4 months ago
what is that material for?
dcross412 5 months ago
nice vid man!!!
bcopley97 5 months ago
Nice video. What's the make and model of the machine? And where is this? That tailstock chuck is amazing.
magicponyrides 5 months ago
Beautiful. As with almost all of the nice vids it takes about 3 comments and the assholes come out of the woodwork. Keep your shit at home.
apoypto 5 months ago
no auto feed? :) lol
bramdriesen 5 months ago 2
I saw it throw a cutting off that smacked the cord and made it move.Then it looked like one got you as well.Better get some leathers on buddy.That sucker is a monster.
heliarche 5 months ago
Biggest lathe you'll ever see? Don't make me laugh! Where I served my time there was a lathe with an eleven foot throw that we used to polish and grind the tips of fully bladed turbine shafts. The biggest shaft weighed 52 tons and was 18 feet in diameter. The tool post was so big and high it had a platform for the operator to stand on.
snimblegrump 6 months ago
@snimblegrump That's great buddy. However I didn't say it's THE biggest lathe. I said it's ONE OF the biggest. And not everyone is as privileged as you so consider yourself very special.
therealtony 6 months ago 23
@therealtony nice reply mate! it saddens me to see people out there trying there hardest to prove everyone else wrong or stupid, and the way you answered that statement made by "snimblegrump " shows what a nice person you are, And i total agreed its one of the biggest lathes a person is likely to see
tuiplease 5 months ago 19
@tuiplease Thanks for the kind words! Good to see some quality people on youtube for a change ;)
therealtony 5 months ago 9
@therealtony my lathe at my house is 30 feet and holds 300000 tons. please, bow down to my greatness. Ive just proved to you that you are not near as cool as me. ive got a question on the serious note, whats pipe like this used? this things sweet!
lucasbmxMDK 4 months ago
@lucasbmxMDK This pipe will be welded up to make a conveyor belt pulley for a very big conveyor system.
therealtony 4 months ago
@therealtony thats crazy, thats a big conveyor system.
lucasbmxMDK 4 months ago
@snimblegrump
did it blend?
thchris 5 months ago
@snimblegrump apparently where i work we have the largest lathe in the southern hemisphere. we machine turbine shafts with all blades fitted, the second largest we have has a chuck more than 2 meters in diameter.
Turtlz250 5 months ago
@snimblegrump sure.
tinram745 4 months ago
@snimblegrump whatever.
tinram745 4 months ago
@snimblegrump They didn't require their employees to be fluent in English, then?
acoow 4 months ago
you can hear it hitting the seam in the pipe
arbitor1701 6 months ago
@arbitor1701 You are exactly right ;)
therealtony 6 months ago
Nice big lathe! I make my chamfers the same way. You have less tool in the cut and less chance of chatter. Chamfers done this way take a lot less tool pressure and I prefer that.
ytmachx 6 months ago
the lathe that made the core of the Westinghouse hydro electric generators were the largest I know of .
oldspam 6 months ago
Well like right now I have 5 specialty machines going and 3 stamping dies we are building there isnt enough time in the day for me to do it all. And I would never have a machine in my shop that I couldnt run.
johnsoneng 7 months ago
id take that lathe in a heartbeat lol and i wouldnt make my employees run it I own my shop and i run all my equipment LOL the problem is lazy people dont want to work and are afraid to hand crank machines
Imagine what a cnc lathe would cost that size hahaha
johnsoneng 7 months ago
Thats what is wrong with this country?..hand feeding that!! NO WAY? and NO EXCUSE! The guys who own the company will drive home in Jags and all sorts of top cars to their big houses and that guy on the machine gets F**k all.! NO WAY would I go back to that!! bin there got the Tee shirt!
memorylane1980s 7 months ago
@memorylane1980s It's not that bad lol
therealtony 7 months ago 2
@therealtony lol..Oh yes it is! It wouldn't cost that much to get that saddle feeding!! the bastards wont pay for it and the operator will not say anything as then he's history! .I was a charge hand in the 70s a Foreman in the 90s and then managed Benders in Hassligdon in the late 90s so I know what I'm talking about! I wound that handle 40 years ago and ya know that poor guy is still winding! Thats why this country is F**KED keep winding! :P
memorylane1980s 7 months ago
@memorylane1980s Oh stop whinging !!
Boxman363 6 months ago
@therealtony Oh!Tony and while you are yanking that round all day just think we are on the moon now! :p..Thats very old English engineering from the 60s done it been there started work in 1965 been in the heavy game all my life and watching that ..if its still happening says to me Canada has NO future! sorry but facts are facts.we don't do that anymore!! TELL EM! P.S. I play the geeeetar too in my spare time "squizzy104" on here. Stray Cats an stuff! keep winding oops! soz Keep Rockin! Ian
memorylane1980s 7 months ago
@memorylane1980s I bet you were out there striking in 60`s and 70`s fucking up our country.
Boxman363 6 months ago
@Boxman363 NO! you guys are fucking it up NOW! as we speak!! I put it RIGHT!
memorylane1980s 6 months ago
@memorylane1980s Dude, life's too short.
therealtony 6 months ago
@memorylane1980s Please explain and bear in mind i dont wear a suit to work ! after all its the suits who fuck it up, also bear in mind the fact that the glory days are long gone, no more walking out of one job straight into another.
Boxman363 6 months ago
@Boxman363 I can walk out of one job into another coz I'm the the f****n best Heavy Machinist in the country!! Well known here in the North West, Not much I haven't machined from line boring Large ships engines to all the turbine work from GEC!! done it all dude, thats my name!! stick that in ya chuck and hand wind it!! :P
memorylane1980s 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@memorylane1980s You didnt answer my question, why am i fucking it up ?
Boxman363 6 months ago
@memorylane1980s Your real job is as a nigger pimp.
madisonelectronic 5 months ago
@memorylane1980s
He's working the compound you moron. No power feed on that.
Love that big iron.
deathfrogg 7 months ago
@deathfrogg We can see that you PLONKER! He's the Moron winding the f*****g thing!! we are sat here watching him!!! Dick Head! I wouldn't wind that by hand on F***ing principle!!
memorylane1980s 7 months ago
@memorylane1980s
Ok, you're fired. I'll find someone who isn't such a chickenshit pussy.
deathfrogg 6 months ago 2
@deathfrogg FIRED? lol..HFDU! (how fuckin dare u ?:p) Ya cant fire an Englishman!! We taught you how to hand crank that shit !! and its 3 years since you guys over there did this vid and that job, I'll bets, still in the F***in MACHINE!
memorylane1980s 6 months ago
Its the biggest coz they have all gone to India. I ran a Swift in the 60s bigger than that and that went there!!
memorylane1980s 7 months ago
A lathe that big without a powered crossfeed? Hell, the piddly little Monarch I use to run had powered crossfeed.
bddc201 8 months ago
@bddc201 The main crossfeed is powered. It's the compound that I'm feeding manually in the video. I have the compound set at 20 degrees so I can make an angled cut.
therealtony 8 months ago 2
@therealtony is it a weldprep. why not use a tool with a 20 degrees angle? have a look at the job i did with a 45 degrees angle. it,s on my uploads on my channel.
userwl2850 7 months ago
@userwl2850 Yup, it's a weldprep. I did it this way because then I didn't have to change my tool. Now though I do it differently because the chips that come off is too hazardous. The method I use now has much better chip control. Oh and to answer your question: there is no way to index a tool on the carriage. All I use to mount tools is two independent clamps each with a piece of ready rod and a nut and washer. Ya I know it's ghetto ;)
therealtony 7 months ago
@therealtony
That isn't just for something like a weld chamfer is it? Seems like the hard way to go.
deathfrogg 6 months ago
where is this?
menormice2 9 months ago
That sure is one hell of a surface speed you got going there!
PimpXXXGuitarist 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
dobypaw . I want to know more about that machine
9440501 10 months ago
U doing great job buddy i would like do that job
9440501 10 months ago
nice man!, you need a power feed on that compound :D
Aussie50 1 year ago
@Aussie50 ya, would be nice, but probably won't happen :S
therealtony 1 year ago
@therealtony I machine nuclear steam turbines with the machine I run. Gerneral Electric will not allow any video taken in the shop. If I could I would post one. It is amazing to machine something as large and heavy as I do. I guess that's why I love my job.
dobypaw 1 year ago
@dobypaw I was hoping, when he asked you make, you'd say, "Bigger lathes!"
Pipewing 9 months ago
@Pipewing I actually make steam turbines for General Electric. The biggest one I have worked on was 180 tons. It was a nuclear mono block steam turbine...When in the field that 180 ton turbine spins at 1800RPM.
dobypaw 9 months ago
That is big as in job shop talk...the lathe I operate can handle 250 ton and can hold a part 50 ft between centers it is so big there is a platform i stand on that is built around the compound. The faceplate (chuck) is 108 inches. And there ore hydro stready rest that support the work piece. So for me that is far from one of the biggest lathes I ever saw.
dobypaw 1 year ago
@dobypaw Super cool man. Got any videos of it? What do you make with that machine?
therealtony 1 year ago
@therealtony the lathe we have at our work is 114 feet between centers it so unreal when you see it but were not allowed cameras at out work
usernamesrgay6666 8 months ago