Photo Index - Hendey Machine Co. - Hendey 18 x 10 Cone Head

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Hendey Machine Co.
Torrington, CT

True Manufacturer:
Hendey Machine Co., Torrington, CT

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Metal Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Lathe, Metal
Machine Size:	18 x 10
Submitted By:	Sion Dovey

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Hendey 18 x 10 Cone Head
Date of Manufacturer:	August 18th, 1920
Serial Number:	23572
Last Updated	7/19/2013 5:49:22 AM

Comments:

Just recently acquired from ebay, was apparently sourced by the farm i bought it from in the Ransomes factory local to there. I have sent the serial number to Hendeyman who was kindly able to tell me the following:

Your lathe was completed on August 18, 1920 and is
considered an 18 x 10 model (these dimensions should be
cast into the bed just in front of the headstock). As you
noted, it is a metric lathe, meaning that all dimensions of
the various parts are listed in millimeters. Your lathe will
swing about 462 mm over the bed.The pitch of the leadscrew is 8 mm, the diameter of the spindle nose is 70 mm and the pitch of the spindle nose thread is 5 mm. The original owner was W. R. Grace & Company, New York, New York.

I don't know anything else about it, except that the brass plate on the gearbox is in French, so where it went after W.R. Grace & company i have no idea.

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