Vintage Smithy Lathe

[Peacemaker322]

Good Mornung everyone,
My Name is Michael and I need some guidance in finding a manual and parts for a Smithy Lathe/Mill combo 12-22TC.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[cvairwerks]

Probably your best bet is over on Hobby-Machinist.com. A quick google search has the same request popping up with no real answer for probably 15 years now, on various sites. If you are lucky, you might find someone that has a manual and you can convince them to copy it.

Two places to NOT TRY, are practicalmachinst.com and vintagemachinery.com. Both sites have hard prohibitions on dealing with Chinese hobby tools and they are rigorously enforced. Any attempt to elicit info on those type machines, on those two sites will get you shut down in a hurry and a real tongue lashing over violating that rule.

 

[nadogail]

Welcome to the Forum from Southwestern California.

 

[shoot summ]

Good Mornung everyone,
My Name is Michael and I need some guidance in finding a manual and parts for a Smithy Lathe/Mill combo 12-22TC.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

12-22TC is a Shoptask machine, Smithy likely sold the same machine with a different number.

SHOPTASK 12-22 TC 1989 – 1991​

By 1989, Shoptask had grown from a home based startup company to a legitimate force in the machine tool marketplace with thousands of machines sold worldwide and a dealer network across the US. This expansion brought further customer input and it became clear that more improvements were needed to satisfy the demand. Shoptask then developed a new model with significantly more features, most importantly, power feed and thread cutting. With such success, however, came a downside… Shoptask found that some of the companies that had signed on as dealers were now contacting the Chinese and making their own deals direct. At this time, Chinese economics laws were in their infancy, and despite exclusive contracts for the designs, factories making copies of the 3 in 1 design began appearing all across China. It was at this time that Shoptask made a shift in its fundamental business plan. First, it was decided to sell only direct to the consumer by mail order and second, Shoptask would establish its own factory in China.

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[Firebrick43]

Vintage and smithy in the same sentence?

 

[shoot summ]

Vintage and smithy in the same sentence?

35 years old doesn't qualify?

 

[Firebrick43]

35 years old doesn't qualify?

No. On several points


The classic definition of

Vintage:

of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality

 

[isb cornbinder]

Good Mornung everyone,
My Name is Michael and I need some guidance in finding a manual and parts for a Smithy Lathe/Mill combo 12-22TC.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

It does not look like a serious machine. I hope you got a good price.

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[shoot summ]

No. On several points


The classic definition of

Vintage:

of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality

Seems as though it is interpretative...

What is the true meaning of vintage?


of age

The word vintage literally means "of age." With such an open meaning, there are many interpretations. Most antique dealers consider an item to be vintage if it is at least 40 years old. So, in the context of this blog date, a vintage item would be made between 1918 and 1978.

It fails on the age qualification.