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The Midget Home Made Lathe

The document describes plans published in 1945 for building a simple home lathe, called the "Midget", from readily available materials like angle iron and scrap automobile parts. The lathe's bed, headstock, and tailstock could be constructed in this way. Other parts included off-the-shelf steel bars and blocks, threaded rod, and a breast drill bevel gear and handle. Even the tool slide was fabricated from bolted steel plates. The lathe featured a height-adjustable toolpost like those used on English Myford/Drummond lathes.

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The Midget Home Made Lathe

The document describes plans published in 1945 for building a simple home lathe, called the "Midget", from readily available materials like angle iron and scrap automobile parts. The lathe's bed, headstock, and tailstock could be constructed in this way. Other parts included off-the-shelf steel bars and blocks, threaded rod, and a breast drill bevel gear and handle. Even the tool slide was fabricated from bolted steel plates. The lathe featured a height-adjustable toolpost like those used on English Myford/Drummond lathes.

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The "Midget" Home-made Lathe


Published in the USA during 1945 - when small lathes even in that country were hard to come by and relatively expensive - this set
of plans was designed to enable a keen home-workshop enthusiast construct a simple but effective little lathe. Built from sections of
angle iron bolted together, the simple flat-faced bed carried a headstock and tailstock constructed from scrap automobile rocker-arm
support bearings - though commercially available lightweight plain-bearing "plummer" blocks would have done just as well. Other
parts included off-the-shelf steel bars and blocks, lengths of threaded rod and the bevel gear and handle from a breast drill
completed the parts list - with even the tool-slide, normally an awkward piece to build, fabricated from bolted-up sections of steel
plate. Interestingly, the toolpost was of the very handy height-adjustable "Norman patent" type as used for many years on the
English-made Myford/Drummond M-Type. Other scratch-built and construction kit lathes made over many decades include: F'only,
Elffers, Fogg, Geslo, Greenly, Jones, Petrie, Precision and the Multi-machine.

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