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So my uncle wanted to get this lathe out of his garage since he needed parking for his boat & doesn't use it a bunch anymore.
Long story short - this was my Uncle Bob's father's lathe that he had purchased second hand a long long time ago. It's a Canadian made McDougall lathe, likely built in the 1940's or early 1950's, 16" x 60" size, 3hp belt drive to a gear reduction box. Among the smaller McDougall lathes, it's around 9' in length & approximately 2500lbs...... THe model appears to be DT-50, however the only reference to that I've managed to find on the web was for a much smaller lathe, so not too sure about it (granted when looking for Canadian built items from companies that have been out of business for decades you don't tend to find a lot of information.....)
My uncle had repainted it "when he was young" in his words, he's well into his 70's now, so it's been around a while. His father was still machining parts on it until he was 89 years old (had retired from a mill at 65 and kept working on projects out of his home machine shop) a pretty cool piece of equipment. There's a ton of fixtures & tooling with it, much of it was probably built for specific tasks that I'll never know about.
It's way to big for any intelligent people to put in their garage, and way to slow for any working machine shop. So perfect at my place
Now I just have to learn how to use the damn thing. (yes, I know the safety aspects, I have used a lathe before, just not in 25 years or so and nothing this big)
Anyone know any more history on McDougall lathes?
Long story short - this was my Uncle Bob's father's lathe that he had purchased second hand a long long time ago. It's a Canadian made McDougall lathe, likely built in the 1940's or early 1950's, 16" x 60" size, 3hp belt drive to a gear reduction box. Among the smaller McDougall lathes, it's around 9' in length & approximately 2500lbs...... THe model appears to be DT-50, however the only reference to that I've managed to find on the web was for a much smaller lathe, so not too sure about it (granted when looking for Canadian built items from companies that have been out of business for decades you don't tend to find a lot of information.....)
My uncle had repainted it "when he was young" in his words, he's well into his 70's now, so it's been around a while. His father was still machining parts on it until he was 89 years old (had retired from a mill at 65 and kept working on projects out of his home machine shop) a pretty cool piece of equipment. There's a ton of fixtures & tooling with it, much of it was probably built for specific tasks that I'll never know about.
It's way to big for any intelligent people to put in their garage, and way to slow for any working machine shop. So perfect at my place
Now I just have to learn how to use the damn thing. (yes, I know the safety aspects, I have used a lathe before, just not in 25 years or so and nothing this big)Anyone know any more history on McDougall lathes?
