Kurt has some wonderful older machines that will soon be a regular part of his channel .He won't please the purists but his end results are what matter . The KW facing borer did a fine job of facing the riser .

Sean

I worked on a huge old flatbed lathe to turn recceses in gearbox covers for a Dosco heading mining machine. The plates were 5 feet long about 2 feet wide and 1/2 inch thick with three overlapping recesses in one side about a 1/4 inch deep The lathe had riser blocks about 18 inch too swing the plate the center recess was ok ish but the outer recesses were a bit hairy swinging a 5 foot plate in an offsett jig bolted to a faceplate like a large blade. There was a back guard with a small radial upstand but there was no front cover. At full swing it had a circumference of about 8 feet swing. I also had to make a sine table with a 3 feet square top and bottom plates 2 inch thick plates, to machine a door for a nuclear reactor made from 1 inch thick stainless steel plate fabrication hollow and filled with lead. It weighed about one and a half tonne.

David

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