Non-distorting Lathe for Mobile Workshop
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1 /f0DERN precision machine tools need to be regarded alas sensitive instruments. A high-class lathe—however rigidly it may be constructed—will be incapable of accurate work if it be installed in a manner that produces distortion, In workshop lorries equipped with machine tools it is ollViously desirable-to avoid excessive weight, yet the floor on which the machines are mounted is constantly warping as the vehicle traverses irregular ground, and lightness and rigidity are hard to combine.
Interest, therefore, attaches to a lathe produced by the Seneca Falls Machine CO., Seneca Falls, New York, which has been expressly designed for service in a road vehicle. Everything about it is standard except the leg at the tail stdpk end and that supplerting the motor. These incorporate universal swivels so that any distortion of the platform is riot imparted to the lathe bed 'which cannot, gIFPforP? be 0-1.-ow4 otlt Of alignment.