What's the name of this lathe in your country?

[25.4_mechanic]

Hello everyone,

I thought there would perhaps be an endless thread here about lathes as well as vices or whatever else has just been acquired, but I couldn't find anything, so I started a thread of my own.

The lathe pictured is based on a popular type from Taiwan, which was made there by several manufacturers over at least three decades with more or less large variations and sold all over the world under dozens of (fancy) names (AB, Brazier's TY110, Busy-Bee, Carolina, Grizzly DF-1224G, Elpha DF-1224G, Enco, Everest, Forbes Glen, Hafco AL350A, Honden Visa, Himount, Husky PC-36, Huvema HU23, JET-1024, Kin Shin, KS-3.5, Lantaine, Leopard, Lin Huan, Lux-Cut, Manhattan, Mascot SS-23, McMillan, Mikron Mk-24, MS, MSC, Peerless, Romac, Select, S.E.M.C.O., Stebbins, Warco, Wey YII Corp, etc.).

The type of machine was often given in inches from the values for centre height and centre width, e.g. 1122, 1224, etc.

My question: which type sold in your country corresponds most closely to the machine shown?

I can still offer some detailed pictures, I have made the designations of name, importer and machine dealer unrecognisable in the picture so as not to distract.

Many thanks in advance
Greets

Carsten

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[frank horton]

Hi there,
seem like they copied a few features from Colchester StudentMK2 and onward...
sorry cant find any decent photo's of my MK2 Student, which is known a square top......(MK1and 1,1/2's were know as round heads/tops where I come from...
basically a different head stock/gearbox assembly.....

should you want more info look at lathe.co poss .UK.......

 

[Stueeee]

Can't answer your precise question, but there is a long thread about this site's members' lathes here: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/show-us-your-lathe.32978/

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Colchester StudentMK2

Thanks, Frank,
gives me something to look for.

should you want more info look at lathe.co poss .UK.......

all I know now about the Taiwan-connection I do know from here http://www.lathes.co.uk/taiwan

Can't answer your precise question, but there is a long thread about this site's members' lathes here: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/show-us-your-lathe.32978/

Thanks a lot, so, there is a never ending lathe thread, I just didn't find it.

If a mod or admin reads along here, could you please move my thread to the lathe-thread if appropriate? Thanks.

Greets
Carsten

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[Arc Tourist]

If memory serves me correct, the lathe in your photo looks to me like the Enco brand sold in California back in the early 1980's.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Thanks mods/admins!

 

[25.4_mechanic]

If memory serves me correct, the lathe in your photo looks to me like the Enco brand sold in California back in the early 1980's.

Hi Mike,

and thank you - Enco is in the list of names - you can't remember a specific type, by any strange coincidence, can you?

Carsten

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[Arc Tourist]

Hi Mike,

and thank you - Enco is in the list of names - you can't remember a specific type, by any strange coincident, can you?

Carsten

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Not really. At the time, I was looking to buy a lathe at the Enco dealer in Glendale California. The one in your photo looks similar to the 13" x 36" model in the showroom. Unfortunately, it was more than I could afford and I later acquired a used 9" Southbend bench lathe.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

the Enco dealer in Glendale California

Yes Mike,

found some pictures of an Enco that looks very similar to my picture as well as to a Grizzly.

Carsten

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[fizzy]

Warco is a British brand of imported lathes.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Warco is a British brand of imported lathes.

Thanks Fizzy

The Warco BH600 is indeed the closest I could find until now in photos - so I should perhaps change the question to:

What are your experiences with the Warco BH600 and similar machines? Input requested!

Carsten

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[fizzy]

Thanks Fizzy

The Warco BH600 is indeed the closest I could find until now in photos - so I should perhaps change the question to:

What are your experiences with the Warco BH600 and similar machines? Input requested!

Carsten

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I thought the BH600 was closest as well.

Warco BH600 lathe – SuffolkSteam

www.suffolksteam.co.uk

Interesting info further down.

 

[fizzy]

Do a search for it on YouTube plenty of good videos.

 

[Agroshield]

Just in case you had not made the connection, in UK we normally refer to the centre height of the lathe above the bed, so the one you show would, like the Colchester Student, be called a 6" lathe. On the basis that everything is bigger in Texas and its surrounding provinces, the same lathe would be called a 12" lathe there (diameter of the piece it can turn).

 

[addjunkie]

I had a warco 1327, they also did a 1224 I think very similar, slightly older than the BH600 made in the cheq republic or somewhere similar, not a bad machine really, think it was dated 86 before Taiwan manufacture. Sold it to a man who makes bits for a very fast pink Triumph. Norton box looks similar, speed control dont, but there was a dearer version too.

 

[MickeyW]

I agree a lot of features look the same as my flathead Colchester Student. The screwcutting gearbox is the same style as my Boxford AUD.

This is a web photo, I couldn't get far enough from mine to photograph it.

 

[Mikes]

On the warco, I believe the prefix part of the reference refers to BH being belt head or GH being geared head.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Just in case you had not made the connection, in UK we normally refer to the centre height of the lathe above the bed, so the one you show would, like the Colchester Student, be called a 6" lathe.

It's exactly the same here you want to know how much room you have, not how big yours is

everything is bigger in Texas and its surrounding provinces

yes, always this trouble with the colonies

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Do a search for it on YouTube plenty of good videos.

now I have something to look for, with the German importers name I couldn't find much, of cause.
And thanks for the link nice pics!

Carsten

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[25.4_mechanic]

BH being belt head or GH being geared head

nice info, thanks