Did anyone ever make a lathe for lefties?

[optima21]

yup

Henry maudslay's lathe from about 1800

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I061/10326590.aspx

 

[Maker]

Gold star Optima

Wasn't he the guy who invented the lathe as we know it today?

 

[CRB]

?Did they swap to the other end to make the operations to make the parts easier?

I have not thought it through really, but a right hand headstock would not require a gear to make longitudinal travel match the wheel rotation. The cross slides would still be left hand threads.

Back to the ironing.

 

[brightspark]

I don't have a problem....I can paint with both hands at the time....... and it in unision with each other

if your that quick get round my house and paint my shed for me then and il pay u , will get it done twice as quick for the price u can creosote all my fences while your at it

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Aye, but how do you hold the tin......?

 

[optima21]

Gold star Optima

Wasn't he the guy who invented the lathe as we know it today?

yup I understand he is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay

 

[brightspark]

Aye, but how do you hold the tin......?

he might be well endowed and as long as he can keep his pekker up it will be fine

 

[DanielW]

he might be well endowed and as long as he can keep his pekker up it will be fine

I had the district nurse out yesterday,she was sporting a very nice perfume....'your blood pressures up today', 'ey and thats not all thats up'.

 

[Bladevane]

I guess a right hand headstock, if using a RH thread to mount the chuck, would only cut on the far side of the diameter. Probably a bit difficult to see - and a bit hairy.

 

[mechman]

I had the district nurse out yesterday,she was sporting a very nice perfume....'your blood pressures up today', 'ey and thats not all thats up'.

Are you taking her out again then.

 

[brightspark]

Are you taking her out again then.

in his dreams its on his i wish list

 

[Spark plug]

Some Colchester / Harrison lathes where avalable with the carnage handwheel mounted to the left or right of the apron.

 

[Wedg1e]

Some Colchester / Harrison lathes where avalable with the carnage handwheel mounted to the left or right of the apron.

Errrr... certainly on the Student/Master, that was down to whether or not the bed had a removable gap piece (on the gap beds the handwheel is always on the right).

 

[CRB]

Some Colchester / Harrison lathes where avalable with the carnage handwheel mounted to the left or right of the apron.

EEEKKKKK I knew I hated lathes for some reason.

Edit, All the text from the buttons has disappeared....odd. See what happens tomorrow after a restart.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

?Did they swap to the other end to make the operations to make the parts easier?.....

Probably like the QWERTY typewriter keyboard configeration, designed to slow the typists down because they were so fast the original keys couldn't keep up mechanically.