The picture on Lathes.co.uk shows a large swing without the need for a gap bed.maybe so that you can turn a larger diameter, but keep the carriage more compact and smaller than if the bed was horizontal.
Pah ! Hobby lathes !
The picture on Lathes.co.uk shows a large swing without the need for a gap bed.
My chipmaster, and I'm sure lots of other lathes, have big holes in the bed to allow swarf to fall through but this does look like it would work slightly better.
Well it's in my hobby workshop at home
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Well it's in my hobby workshop at home
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Why not?Linky
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Why on earth would someone want to make a lathe with the bed slanted like that?
That said, I want it.
Here's the slant bed on my Traub. It's a bit of a beast weighing in at over 4 tons
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Welcome chap....you and maker will get on just fine.Hi. just signed up. That's the Willson I bought recently off ebay. It's a good hefty piece of kit. The condition is pretty good, except for one glaring fault which I had to fix. I had been getting a nice old Colchester Master up to a decent state when the Willson came up locally. I had a particular job in mind that required a bigger swing than the Colchester could handle. The big advantage of the slant bed is that the lathe offers a bigger swing than a more conventional lathe occupying the same footprint. I've got the Willson installed in the garage, wired in and running, and I'm practicing some of the skills I learned years ago as an apprentice but have not been using lately.
I'll get some pics of the Willson posted up on here and would be interested to hear from any other Willson owner.
Mart.