Fred's Hardinge automatic lathe making new MB part 

Ran one for years, what a precision part making machine. I made tens of thousands of parts on these machines. Spent decades machining, running many other manual lathes too. Back in the 70's 1000 part runs no problem. Two to three days. Next. Setup is key. This is how they are run, with oil, old sulfur based stinky oil.

My best friend designed that part chute and the vertical cutoff (and tons of other stuff). He worked for Hardinge for 48 years. I worked there for 42 years.

@@berniepragle948 That's very cool. Ran one of these for years. I never needed to look at the vertical control power box or the adjustable feeds control panel. I could run and vary adjustments by feeling my hand over all controls. Most satisfying machine I ever ran.

@@x2malandy Hardinge was an amazing place to work. We did everything in-house that we possibly could. I used to joke that we made everything in our machines except the switches and light bulbs. At one time nearly 2,000 people worked there. Then around 2000, we went public, the beancounters took over, we started outsourcing everything, and it all went to shid. I retired Oct 2015. I have very fond memories of my earlier and mid years there and try to forget the last 5 to 10. Hardinge is now owned by some money fund out of Philadelphia. Sad.

It's a DSMA (single spindle auto matic turret lathe. These small machines like straight cutting oil. Use sulfurized oil if you are machining difficult to machine materials like stainless. Machining brass or aluminum doesn't need anything fancy.

@@turrettooling1968 I just now saw this, didn't get a notification of your response. Mines still sitting for a few reasons. I'm afraid of the challenge going by word of mouth reports, I need to reconfig the shop to make a home for it, and also I need to run power for it. Hoping to use a little VFD so I don't have to run the RPC. You have that working real nice it looks.

gheumann if it's like one I worked on decades ago turrrent operated by series of trip levers and abutment screws...spindle speeds gears and determining ratios..dead stops on slides no programming all manual if you want one you can program get a brown and sharp with servo can control...or brown and sharp ptc.get rid of Allen Bradley contrrol..its junk.put a Fanuc control

Well Alex, Unenslaved2012 (I like your handle), your explanation is somewhat correct. We live in a Country where lawsuits are prevalent. I didn't want to find myself in a lawsuit, where one of my customers was maimed because of racing on the street using one of my motors. I don't want to encourage street racing by doing it myself and publishing videos of it. It's too bad that I removed those fun videos, but I felt like I had to to protect everything I've worked so hard to build for the last 25 years. The courts support litigation because it ensures their own parasitic job security. An unfortunate consequence of this is now, American manufacturers are very hesitant to produce anything which someone could hurt themselves with.

wow thats so different for my country australia. there is law suits but not to the extent that happens in usa.i my self use to love going fast as posssible down the biggest hill i could find but if i came off at that speed i wouldent blame someone else for getting hert because no one else told me to go that fast it was all up to me so it makes no sence to me to go and make a law suit when the only person to blame is your self.