Seneca Falls Mfg Co table

[f121]

While looking at some plant today, I got chatting to the seller and he showed me this table he’d made. The legs are cast supports with Seneca Falls Mfg Co, Seneca Falls NY USA. Anyone know what these legs were originally for? Maybe a lathe or a grinder?

 

[Joe Huld]

Definitely legs from a lathe, probably a 9 or 12 inch "Star" brand lathe. It probably dates to the WWI era and was probably a line shaft driven lathe, Treadle operated Seneca falls lathes had a slightly different style of legs with bearings for the flywheel. lots of Seneca Falls lathes went to the UK in WWI

 

[The Cobbler]

some great looking legs you have there!

ooop's

 

[Roberts210]

Hubba hubba.

 

[four.cycle]

Seneca Falls Manufacturing Co. - Photo Index | VintageMachinery.org

^ this is really quite a write-up that Mark and Jeff did.

 

[tombell572]

They did indeed once support a Seneca Falls lathe as Cobbler notes. Antique dealers buy antique machine tools often at garage or estate sales for very little money, sell the cast iron legs for more than the entire machine would bring and scrap an otherwise good machine that is part of our industrial history.

Tom B.

 

[LopezBart]

Another good site with information on lots of lathes, both in the UK and the USA: http://www.lathes.co.uk/senecafalls/index.html